American Car.\boidea 253 



three-fifths wider than long, much wider than the head; elytral 

 striae very fine, the intervals perfectly flat. Length 5.2-5.8 mm.; 



width 2.4-2.7 mm. New Jersey and Indiana pulchella Dej. 



Elytra never having a trace of metallic coloration; maculation more 



irregular, less fasciiform 2 



2 — Head with deeply strigilliform sculpture throughout 3 



Head in great part smooth or sparsely punctured 4 



3 — Form moderately stout, rather convex, shining; head black; pro- 

 thora.x pale testaceous, the elytra black, flavate at the sides in 

 anterior half, this area extending obliquely inward with recurved 

 lobiform tip reaching the first stria and with posterior limit well 

 behind the middle; apex transversely flavate, connected with the 

 anterior flavate area by a narrow pale side margin; humeral black 

 area quadrate; under surface and legs throughout pale, the head 

 black, the abdomen brownish at tip; head large, with very promi- 

 nent eyes, almost as wide as the prothorax; antennae slender, 

 fuscous, the three and one-half basal joints pale; prothorax nearly 

 twice as wide as long, finely, strongly rugulose, broadly reflexed 

 at the sides; elytra between a third and fourth longer than wide, 

 gradually dilated behind, scarcely twice as wide as the prothorax, 

 the striae deeply impressed with convex intervals. Length 5.5 mm.; 

 width 2.35 mm. Texas (Brownsville), — Wickham.. .anchora Chev. 

 Form rather stout, shining, the size very variable; coloration as in the 

 preceding, except that the flavate antero-lateral area of the elytra 

 is smaller, not extending quite to the middle of the length, extending 

 basally in similar manner to the fourth stria, but with the oblique 

 inner prolongation small, extending inward to the second stria and 

 posteriorly to about the middle, the flavate area having a fuscous 

 spot at the humerus, the margin finely flavate posteriorly to the 

 transverse apical flavate area; head not quite so large as in anchora, 

 with very prominent eyes, slightly narrower than the prothorax; 

 antennae similarly colored, very slender; prothorax twice as wide 

 as long, moderately rounded and broadly reflexed at the sides; 

 median stria very fine, usually a little deeper at apex; surface 

 finely, closely and strongly rugulose; elytra fully a third longer 

 than wide, otherwise nearly as in anchora. Length 4.4-6.0 mm.; 

 width 1.9-2.8 mm. Indiana and Mississippi (Vicksburg). Twelve 



specimens appendiculata Chd. 



Form not quite so stout and sensibly smaller, though similarly varying 

 greatly in size, similar in general coloration, except that the elytra 

 are more completely black, there being a narrow flavate spot in- 

 volving the fifth and sixth intervals from base to slightly behind 

 basal fourth, and sometimes almost obsolete— marginella; lateral 

 margins always finely flavate throughout the length, the apical 

 flavate fascia slightly dilated inwardly; head with remarkably large 

 and prominent eyes, barely narrower than the prothorax; antennae 

 slender, fuscous, the first three and one-half to four joints pale 

 flavate; prothorax four-fifths wider than long, pale testaceous as 

 in the two preceding and similarly rounded and broadly reflexed 

 at the sides; rugulosity fine, close-set; median stria very fine, often 



