gallerucidte. 219 



(293) 2. * Galleruca Canadensis. Canadian Galleruca. 



G. ( Canadensis] sordide mfa, pubescens ; antennis nigris basi rvfescentibus ; capite puncto postico, prothorace tribus transverse 



positis, elytris vitta laterali suturaque, nigris. 

 Canadian Galleruca, dirty-rufous, downy ; antenna? black, rufescent at the base, bead with a dot behind, prothorax with 



three placed transversely, elytra with a lateral stripe and the suture, all black. 



Length of the body 4 lines. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body elongate, hairy with short decumbent cinereous hairs or down, dirty-rufous, underneath 

 black. Head with a black vertical spot ; six last joints of the antennas black, the others, except the 

 scape, rufous black at the tip ; scape rufous, black above : prothorax transversely impressed, sides 

 posteriorly oblique with a slight sinus ; three equidistant irregular black spots or dots placed trans- 

 versely on the disk: the two elytra taken together have three black stripes, the intermediate or 

 sutural one being common to both, and converging with the lateral ones at the tip : anus obscurely 

 rufous. 



** Breviores. 



(294) 3. Galleruca Sagittarle. (Gyllenhal.) AiTow-head Galleruca. 



Galleruca Sagittarias. Gyll. Ins. Suec. iii, 511, 8. 

 Length of the body 2J lines. 



Several specimens taken in Lat. 54°. Taken also by Dr. Bigsby in Canada. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body brown, a little downy, not glossy. Mouth dirty-yellow : prothorax transverse, impressed, 

 reddish-yellow, with three black nearly confluent spots : scutellum subquadrangular, truncated at 

 the apex : elytra grossly but not thickly punctured ; suture and lateral margin paler than the rest of 

 the elytrum : anus and legs reddish-yellow ; tarsi darker. 



Variety B. With the base of the antenna? yellowish underneath, the black spots on the pro- 

 thorax distinct, and the elytra entirely of a brownish-yellow. 



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