1198 



FAMILY IjIII. — CirRYSOMELIDiE. 



Lake County; rare, 

 land, Colorado. 



May 12-May 30. Described from Gar- 



2215 (7026). 



Syst. 



Phyllotbeta bipustulata Fabr., 

 Eleut., I, 1801, 464. 

 Oblong-oval, rather robust. Piceous without me- 

 tallic lustre ; elytra each with a large oval humeral 

 spot, touching base but not including the umbone, and 

 a suliajiical more elongate and narrower sisot, yellow; 

 antenna? piceous, the basal five joints paler ; legs red- 

 dish-yellow, the hind femora darker beneath. Thorax 

 one-third wider than long; disk finely alutaceous, 

 rather finely and sparsely punctate. Elytra distinctly 

 wider at base than thorax and with coarser punctures. 

 Length 2-2.5 mm. (Fig. 527.) 



Throughout the State, frequent; more so in 

 Fig. 527. (After Chittenden the southern pdunties. April 14-July 13. Taken 



in Bull. 33, N. Ser., U. S. f ^ 



Div. Ent.) by sweeping and sifting. 



2210 ( ). PlIYLLOTEETA AEMOKACIiE Koch, 



Ent. Heft, II, ISO:.;, 75. 

 Elongate-ov.'il, convex. Head, thorax and 

 under surface hluck, shining; elytra dull yel- 

 low, with a common sutural stripe and very 

 narrow side and apical margins, black; an- 

 tennffi and femora piceous, the basal three 

 joints of former and tibias and tarsi dull 

 hrownish-yellow. Thorax one-third wider 

 than long, sides curved and rounded to apex ; 

 surface finely and sparsely, that of elytra 

 more coarsely and densely, punctate. Length 

 3-3.5 mm. (Fig. 528.) 



A recently introduced European spe- 

 cies, several specimens of which have 

 been taken by Wolcott in the washup of 

 Lake Michigan, near Pine, Lake County. 



May 28 From its specific name T judge that it preys upon horse- 

 radish. 



2217 (701!>). PiiYr.r.oTKETA mcta Say, .Tourn. Phil. Acad. Nat. Scl IV 

 1N24, 87 ; ibid. II, 22S, 

 Oval, slightly oblong, feebly convex. Head and thorax pale reddish- 

 yellow; elytra bright bluish-gi'een, shhiing; antennre pale, the outer joints 

 fuscous; ab,l..»,en and melasternum piceous; legs yellnwisli, the hind fe- 

 mora eften darker. Thorax nearly twice as wide as long, surfaee very 

 finely spars<.]y and indistinctly punctured. Elytra slightiy wider at base 

 than thorax, umbone rather prominent, smooth; surface finely, eloselv and 

 .ndistinctly puncture,! „n disk, s,n„„lher at .sides and apex. LengU. 2- 

 —..J mm. 



Fig. 528. 



(After Cliittenden in Insect 

 Life VII.) 



