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dddd Upper side finelj^ punctulate and with small shallow punctures 

 and uniformh" covered with a dense la5^er of light gray 

 or yellowish gray hairs; thorax with lateral stripe 



c one ol or 

 e Punctures much more numerous, hair dirty gray; lateral stripe 



wanting or nearly so var. u n i c o 1 o r 



aa Antennae unicolorous 

 b Elytra rounded with spine at suture 



c Gray with j^ellow patches calcarata 



cc Color uniform fulvous var. adspersa 



tb Eh'tra with marginal or submarginal stripe 



c Thorax and el^-tra brown or j-ellowish brown with two white 



stripes; under side white Candida 



cc Thorax 3^ellow with four black spots on dorsum and one on each 

 side; eb'tra bordered with bright yellow with a black spot in 



front; under side gray puncticollis 



ccc Thorax and el^'tra gray and with an orange red lateral stripe 

 d Second and third cross bands on elytra oblique, a dark spot 

 usually on each side of the first and one behind the third; 

 front of head very flat; elytra more or less truncate 



tridentata 

 dd First and second cross bands on elytra oblique; front of head 



flat; elj'tra rounded at apex imitans 



cccc Thorax and elytra black 



d Sutural and lateral stripe on elytra orange red; head somewhat 



rounded; under side gray 1 ateralis 



dd Sutural stripe usually wanting and with one to three cross bands; 

 lateral band reaching to margin; under side gray 



var. connecta 

 bbb El3rtra with spots, rarely concolorous 



c Cinnamon brown with a white stripe on each side of the thorax 

 d A large white spot in center of each elytron and a smaller one 

 near its apex, neither reaching to margins; sides and under 



surface white cretata 



dd White stripe on thorax continuing on elytra at humeral angles; 

 the elytra with two -vdiite spots, one at the middle, the other 

 near the apex and almost sutural; sides and under surface 

 white; the spots are more or less obsolete in the malcfayi 

 cc Cinnamon brown, sometimes nearl}" black, with a transverse, un- 

 dulate, 3'ellowish olive fascia across the middle of the eh^ra; 

 sometimes with an additional spot both before and behind this 

 fascia; thorax and apex of elytra and scutellum olive; legs light 



reddish, under side lighter discoidea$ 



ccc Uniformly reddish brown, sometimes black; legs reddish; under 



side lighter discoidea^ 



cccc Olive yellow with three denuded black spots on each elytron, 

 * some or all occasionally wanting vestita 



