11 ()4 FAMILY LIII. CHin'SOMELIDiE. 



trefoil, beans and other leguminous plants. Listed as C. camiiua 

 Fab. In one specimen at hand the dorsal spots of elytra are mert;'ed 

 to form a stripe each side of suture. If destructive to bean leaves, 

 hand picking early in the season and spraying with arsenicals later 

 will serve as remedies. 



Afjclasa hahnsis Linn., oval, convex, dull yellow, elytra blue or 

 greenish, length il-T jimi., is known from Connecticut and Wiscon- 

 sin, and may yet be found in Indiana. 



XLIII. G-ALEnrcA Geoff. 17fi4. (L., "a helmet + caterpillar.") 



Broadly oval, subconvex species having the head moderately 

 large, not deeply inserted; front grooved between the antennaj, 

 which are rather stout, not longer than half the body, joint three 

 nearly tAviee as long as the sei-ond, three to ten gradually decreas- 

 ing in length, eleventh longer; seutellum nearly semicircular; epi- 

 pleuric entire; tibiie carinate on outer edge, the middle pair with 

 one terminal spur; first joint of hind tarsi nearly as long as the 

 next two, the claws cleft slightly behind the middle, the inner lobe 

 much the smaller. Two species are known from the United States. 

 One of then, intreduced from Europe, has been taken in Indiana. 



::i."l(; ( ). Camcklca po.mon.-i; S'-uii., Eiit. C-irtiioL, ITli.'!. s:;.. 



Broadly uvute. subrdiivcx. Dai-k iiicecjus browu above, black beneath, 

 feebly shining; elylra narrowly uiiu-giued with dull yellow. Thorax more 

 tbau twice as wide as lung, very coarsely and densely iiunctured ; disk with 

 a broad but shallow median groove and with an irregular dei)ression each 

 side. BIyli-a each with three or tour snumtli raised lines, the broad inter- 

 vals with dense, coarse, confluent iiunctuj'cs. Length .S..'i-U mm. 



Laporte and Kosciusko counties; raie. -Ldy 1-August 2{i. The 

 lai'va- feed on the foliage of PhU>x dirarirala and I), iitaria lavitiiala. 

 The species was first taken in this ci)initr\- liy Dury near Cincinnati 

 in 1S78 and prGl)ably occurs sparingly tlux:ughout the State.* 



M(iii,:fi;sla ciirijli Say, dull yell(n\ , elytra inetallic blue, length 

 10-16 mm., occurs on hazelnut and is known from Virginia, Illinois 

 ;'nd Kansas. 



XLIV. TmRHABP.v l.ec. ISii,-). (Gr., "tlu-ee-Frod.") 

 Medium-sized ehniqate-oblong, feebly convex species with usu- 

 ally opaque, finely piuicturinl and pubescent surface; antennte slen- 

 der, two-tliirds the h-ngth of b(Miy; t1i<!rax ,ip;ch bi'ondcr than Ion-, 

 wid(-st at middle, the angles distinct and more or h-ss prominent; 



*A full account of its l,;.h,t. mi life liistory, by J. .1 Davis, i, suen iu Entomological \c«., July, 1907. 



