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16. Prothorax little depressed, the width considerably less than 

 twice the length; elytral punctation markedly coarse and 



distinct; Rocky Mountains and Great Plains debilis LeConte 



Prothorax wider and more depressed on the sides, dense gray- 

 ish elytral pubescence somewhat obscuring the coarse punc- 

 tation; aedeagus -long and heavy; Montana, Idaho, Alberta, 

 feeding on Artemisia and Solidago - grisea, new species 



MONOXIA CONSPUTA (LeConte) 



Plate 19, Figure 18 



Galleruca consputa LeConte, Reports of explorations and surveys for a railroad 

 route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, vol. 9, No. 1, p. 70, 

 1857. 



Monoxia consputa LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol, 17, p. 222» 

 1865.— Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 20, p. 85, 1893 (in part). 



LeConte's Latin description of Galleruca consputa may be translated 

 thus: Elongate, yellow-testaceous, pubescent, densely and not finely 

 punctate, with a median black line down the head, the prothorax 

 canaUculate and impressed here and there near the sides, with a black 

 dorsal vitta and a dark lateral clouding; the elytra with an oblique 

 intrahumeral depression and another depression along the sides from 

 the humerus posteriorly, with elevated black suture and numerous 

 small black spots, the undersurface fuscous, the legs testaceous, black- 

 spotted. Length 0.15 inch. The type locality is given as San Jos6, 

 Cahf., in his original description, although later the localities San 

 Jos6 and San Francisco are both given. He states that it occurs on 

 oak leaves. It is described as narrower than 0. debilis, with the elytra 

 more coarsely punctate, the sides compressed and impressed, and the 

 disk obliquely impressed behind the middle. 



In the LeConte collection are five specimens, all with the gilt label 

 indicating the locality California, the first of which, a male, is labeled 

 consputa, locahty San Jos^, Museum of Comparative Zoology type 

 No. 4386. Although it is rather difficult to see the claws, I believe 

 all four others are males with toothed claws. All are similarly marked 

 and correspond with LeConte's description. The head is more or 

 less darldy speckled on the lower front, with a dark streak above the 

 antennal sockets and also below, and the median line and labrum are 

 dark. The pubescence is long, moderately dense, and covers the 

 punctation on the occiput. The antennae have darker and thicker 

 apical joints. The prothorax is nearly twice as wide as long and has 

 median and lateral depressions, not so deep as in angularis or guttulata, 

 the sides somewhat rounded, the basal angles not prominent, and the 

 pubescence not dense, showing beneath it the shallow, rather coarse 

 punctation. The elytra have the humeri well marked, with a pro- 

 nounced and long mcurving intrahumeral depression, and there is 

 also a distinct postmedian lateral depression, running from the side 



