42. BILLET1S OF'l'HE BROOKLYN ENT. 80C. 



cinereous pubescence; abdomen dark-bronzed; prothorax and legs red- 

 dish-yellow; antennae reddish-yellow, with the last five joints (.lark piceous. 

 Length, .09inch=2 mm. Nevada This species is readily known from 

 all others by its rufous head and thorax. 



Epicauta Wheeleri. 



Body black, covered with grayish pubescence; thorax rusty-red. 

 Head sparsely punctured and covered with coarse, grayish pubescence; 

 medial line black, shining; thorax rounded, as broad as long, covered 

 with a thick, felt-like, reddish-brown pubescence, edged with lighter-color- 

 ed, bristle-like hairs; elytra densely clothed with short cinereous pubes- 

 cence; body beneath black, with coarse, gray pubescence; femora and 

 tibiae with a black spot at the end; tarsi and antennae black. Length, 

 0.35-0.40 inch=Q-i 1. 5 mm. Arizona. I dedicate this beautiful spe- 

 cies with great pleasure to Lieut. George M. Wheeler, Corps of Engi- 

 neers, U. S. A., who, by the large collections made under his directions, 

 has rendered important services to natural science. 



Lytta lugnbris. 



Uniformly black, moderately shining. Head quadrate, scabrous, 

 with large punctures, and a small, frontal, yellow spot; thorax hexagonal, 

 and sculptured like the head; elytra evenly scabrous; body beneath more 

 shining and uniformly punctured; legs and antennae dark piceous. 

 Lenght, 0.45-0. 80 inch=u. 5-20 mm. Owens Valley, California. Re- 

 sembles L. childii and mcerens, but may be known at once by the angu- 

 lated form and coarser sculpture of the head and thorax. 



Orossidius intermedins. 



Fulvous, flavo-pubescent. Head and thorax roughly punctured, 

 blackish, thickly covered with yellowish hairs; thorax a little broader 

 than long, with the sides angulated, pointed, and the hind angles promi- 

 nent; elytra fulvous, densely clothed with flavous pubescence, deeply and 

 closely punctured, the punctures becoming larger toward the base; ab- 

 domen flavous; antennae and legs brown-red. Length, 0.45-0. 65 inch 

 =11—17 mm. Arizona. This species is closely allied to C. suturalis, 

 which differs from it in having the head, thorax, feet, and antennae black. 

 Some of the females of our species have also a sutural vitta, which extends 

 backward from the anterior third of the elytra, forming a very elongate 

 oval spot like the one in suturalis. 



