2o6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Sept., '02 



Casey, munda Say and polita Casey. I have many specimens 

 including ones from the exact localities these forms are said to 

 come from, and I confess to a total inability to separate them 

 from sayiguinea Say (see Biolog. VII, p. 170-71). 



Cleis minor and hiidsonica Casey are varieties of C. pida Rand. 



I find it impossible to separate my series of Anatis i^-pU7ictata 

 Oliv. and mali Say ; the latter is undoubtedly a synonym. 



Neomysia interriipta Casey seems the same as horni Cr. — my 

 specimens indicate that ra^idalli Casey is a variety of pidlata 

 Say. 



I am unable to trace the differences of his new species ot 

 Psyllobora. 



In Exochomus, p. 109, speaking of the forms childreyii to 

 iethiops, it is said they may be regarded as derivatives of the 

 margiyiipennis type but specifically distinct. I have the three 

 forms childreni, latinsadus 2cti6./asciatjis ; then I have ah example 

 from Yuma, California, which has the elytra of c/iildrejnQ.\\d the 

 thorax oifasciatus, except that in one the anterior black ely tral 

 markings are connected with the posterior, bringing up against 

 specimens of tnarginipennis from St. Louis and Florida. 



Cliilocorus bivubicrus Muls. is said to occur as far west as Iowa, 

 and there are three new California species . I have examples from 

 California, Oregon and Colorado, which I cannot call anything 

 but bivulnerus , and the specimens which I have marked off as 

 the new .species seem to be rather shadowy. Cacti Linn, is 

 spoken of as from Honduras, but Texan specimens seem 

 plenty. Gorham in Biolog. VII, p. 175, gives California and 

 Texas as localities. 



■Axion pilatci Muls. is noted as probably distinct from plagi- 

 atum Lee. because of its red abdomen. I have an example of 

 pilatci from Texas which has a red abdomen with a central 

 black cloud. C. ypustulatum D. G. I have from Missouri, 

 Texas, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 



lirachyacantlta illustris Casey = albifrons Say ; decora Casey 

 = crythroaphala Muls. I have a pair of this species from 

 Orizaba, Mexico, ih cop., which has the "confluent pale 

 spots" entirely separate in the $ and confluent in the 9. I 

 do not fina any difference between lo-pustulata Mels. and trs- 

 tudo Casey or socialis Ca.scy and dcntipes Fab. 



