126 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xvi. 



Abdomen in the male as in ursina, but the fifth and sixth segments more depressed 

 at middle. Length 3.5 mm.; width 2.75 mm. 



Huachuca Mts., Arizona. 



This species varies a good deal in the extent of the elytral spots. 

 All the spots may unite more or less and gradually extend over the 

 entire surface, leaving only the suture and apex broadly, the side 

 margin narrowly and a spot on the humeral callus black. This spe- 

 cies differs principally from ursina and testudo by the very large and 

 always broadly confluent basal spots, the absence of the median mar- 

 ginal spot on each elytron, the bidentate anterior tibiae, and in addi- 

 tion from ursina by the shorter and more rounded form. 



Brachyacantha bistripustulata var. decora Casey, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. 

 VII, p. 119. 



Very abundant near Brownsville, Texas, and with it occurred, 

 though very rarely, the typical bistripustulata. 

 Hyperaspis weisei, new species. 



Form and size of proba. Head black, distinctly punctate. Thorax black, side 

 margin broadly pale ; surface more finely punctate than the elytra. Elytra black, a 

 marginal vitta extending to about basal half, becoming broader and much dilated in- 

 side at its apical end, a discal and two apical spots yellow ; punctuation slightly 

 coarser than that of thorax. Body beneath black ; abdominal segments coarsely 

 punctate, the last five reddish. Legs pale. Length 



Brownsville, Texas. Collected by the late Ottomar Dietz. 



Following Gorham in the " Biologia " I reported* this as kunzei, 

 which is, according to Weise, a different insect. The inner apical 

 spot is nearer the suture than the apex and rounded, the outer is close 

 to the margin, elongate and shows in one specimen a tendency to 

 become united with the inner spot. 

 Hyperaspis lengi Schaef., Bull. Brooklyn Inst. Mus. , Vol. I, p. 146. 



I have one specimen of this species from the Huachuca Mts., Ari- 

 zona, with the discal and apical spots not connected, resembling closely 

 rotunda Casey. The latter species is, however, always more globose,, 

 has the front angles of thorax rather produced, in lengi not at all pro- 

 duced, and the clypeus feebly truncate-emarginate, in lengi distinctly 

 arcuate-emarginate. 

 Hyperaspis pratensis Lee. 



This species, which was described from Kansas, seems to be rare in 

 collections. I have a specimen from Hopatcong, N. J., collected by 



*Bull. Brooklyn Inst. Mus., Vol. 1, p. 145. 



