BEETLES OF GENUS LUPERODES—BLAKE 67 
L. varicorns is abundantly represented in the National Museum 
collection by specimens collected by Nunenmacher and others at 
Nogales, Ariz. In a recent collection at Nogales, they were stated 
to be found on almond leaves and fruit. They were collected by 
Morrison in Arizona, and in Schaeffer’s collection, besides the types 
from the Huachuca Mountains, there are specimens from Palmerlee, 
Cochise County, Ariz. Wickham collected it at Alpine, Tex., and 
specimens are in the California Academy of Sciences from the Chisos 
Mountains, Brewster County, Tex. One specimen only has appeared 
from New Mexico, and that was collected by F. H. Snow and is in the 
University of Kansas collection. 
LUPERODES BRUNNEUS (Crotch) 
PuatTE 5, FIGURE 5 
Luperus brunneus Crotcu, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1873, p. 44. 
Luperodes varicornis Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 20, p. 111, in part, 1893. 
Luperodes davist LENG, Journ. New York Ent. Soc., vol. 19, p. 198, 194, 1911. 
Crotch’s type of L. brunneus may very well be a specimen in the 
LeConte collection bearing the label ‘‘N. C.,’”’ as Crotch stated that 
his specimen was from North Carolina. It is a shining brown beetle, 
with the head, prothorax, and legs a little paler yellow-brown and the 
antennae with the apices of each joint from the fourth to the apical 
joint dark, and is the species that is so abundant a pest throughout 
the South on corn, okra, and cotton. 
I have not examined Leng’s type of ZL. davisi, described from 
Georgia, but according to H. S. Barber, who has seen the type, it is 
the same as Crotch’s species. 
Since Horn’s revision of the Galerucini, L. brunneus has been 
synonymized with varicornis. LeConte described varicornis from 
Arizona, while Crotch’s species came from North Carolina. In 
coloration and markings the typical forms are not alike, and the 
aedeagi, while similar, are quite distinct. There is a pale-yellow 
form of brunneus similar in coloring to the very palest forms of vari- 
cornis, which is represented in the National Museum collection by 
specimens from Georgia (Savannah, near Townsend, and Harrison), 
and Kansas (Manhattan, Topeka, and Riley County). Although the 
aedeagi of these pale-yellow forms appear from without to be like 
those of the typical dark brown forms, one aedeagus, unfortunately 
lost, had the internal sac inflated to some extent, and this was peculiar 
in having a series of rather long spines projecting from it. The 
internal sac of the typical brunneus showed shorter spines. Whether 
this constitutes a specific difference I do not know. One of the speci- 
mens of the pale form from Kansas bore the note that it was found 
injuring dahlias, hollyhocks, and cornsilk, and those from Georgia 
