BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN ENT. SOC. 59. 



Description of Leptinotarsa Behrensi. 



By E. V. Harold. 



(Reprint from Mittkeil. des Muenckener Entom. Vereins. 1877. p. 16.) 

 L. Behrensi. Oblonga, court-Mi, obscure viridcenea vel nigro-cenea interdum 

 mgroviolacea, Ihorace pundis majoribus et minutis sat dense adsperso; elytris dense, 

 latera versus confuse, apicem rugulose punctatis, pundis disco irregviariter triseriat'is. 

 Long. 15-18 mm. 



Oval, strongly convex; quite shining, lighter or darker aeneous, us- 

 ually dark greenish or bluish. Thorax, with very fine and some coarser 

 punctures, the punctuation at the sides more distinct; rounded at apex, 

 the anterior angles forming a small but sharp little tooth. Elytra dense- 

 ly punctured, at apex and sides irregularly and diagonally wrinkled, on 

 the disc in irregular rows, each three of such rows more approximate, so 

 that smooth, and sometimes even slightly convex, intervals appear between 

 these punctured lines. But in some specimens ttiese rows are scarcely des- 

 cernible. Epipleurse flat, almost without punctuation, the interior mar- 

 gin often rufous, pellucid. Habitat California. 



Of this stately species, which in size surpasses lacerata and cacica Mr. 

 Behrens sent several specimens to C. A. Dohrn. It differs from all spec- 

 ies known at present by the concolorous densely punctured elytra. 



Description of Lactica specularis. 



By E. V. Harold. 

 (Reprint from Harold Col. Hefte 1865. XIII. 89.) 

 Diphaulaca specularis. Nitida, rufo-testacea, elytris purpureo- 

 violaceis; capite thoraceque laevibus, hoc transverso, angulis anticis ob- 

 tuse rotundatis, sulco basali minus profundo utrinque angulatim in mar- 

 ginem baseos deflexo; elytris laevibus, pone scutellum distincte transverse 

 impressis; pectore, abdomine femoribusque posticis piceis, pedibus 4 an- 

 ticis rufo-testaceis, tibiis tarsisque posticis piceo- rufis, antennis nigris, ar- 

 ticulis 3 basalibus rufo-testacei. . Long. 4 mill. Florida, 



