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(Lexington); Missouri; Kansas (Lawrence, Topeka) ; Louisiana 

 (Lake Ponchartrain Region); Texas south to San Jose del Cabo, 

 Lower California, and Guerrero in Mexico. 



Owing to the great difficulty in recognizing the species of Cregya, 

 the author deems it best to redescribe at some length the species 

 of our fauna, mactilicollis Schaeffer alone being given in its original 

 form. 



Cregya granulosa Wolcott. (PI. V, fig. 9.) 



Pelonitim granulosum Wolc, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, vii, 1909, 

 p. 24. 



General form and size of leucophcea, which it somewhat resembles 

 in color and from which it differs as follows: The eyes more nearly 

 approximate in front. The thorax subopaque, proportionately 

 longer and with elevated areas wanting; the sides of prothorax an- 

 terior to the dilation nearly straight, gradually convergent to near 

 apex, the apical angles oblique; sides behind the dilation very sud- 

 denly and strongly constricted, the dilation more remote from base; 

 surface more densely and deeply umbilicately punctate. Elytra 

 more shining; punctures coarse and deep but less sharply defined, 

 not smaller nor wanting in a subsutural space behind the middle; 

 apices conjointly rounded, the sutural angle rectangular. The entire 

 insect is clothed with denser, longer yellowish hairs, most conspic- 

 uous on head and thorax; but color and markings are nearly as in 

 leticophoBa except that the whitish median fascia is wanting, being 

 replaced by an irregular whitish area situate almost entirely before 

 the middle. Length 6.4-9.7 mm. 



The markings are more suffused than in leucophcea, and the 

 median whitish area is marked with several large blackish spots. In 

 both the type and the cotype the vertex of the head and the anterior 

 margin of thorax are dull testaceous. The elytra are divergent from 

 the humeri and slightly more than twice as long as the thorax, while 

 in leucophoca the sides at basal fourth are parallel and the elytra are 

 Cfjual to more than three times the length of thorax. The ]KHniliar 

 sculpture gives to the elytra a granulose appearance. 



Hab.-- Texas. 



Cregya fasciata LeConte. 



linoplium jasciatum Lee, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., v, 1S52, 



p. 214; Melsh,, Cat. Col., 1853, p. 84. 

 Cregya fasciata Lee, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vi, 1H65, p. 9H; Lee., 



