. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana : with bibliography and descriptions of new species . Beetles. THE LADY BEETLES. 523 hind margin as from the suture; the other has the spot yellow and located much farther from the suture, in usual situation of second spot in proha. lOOOa (- -)â Hyperaspis sigkata binotata Say Sci., V, 1826, 302; ibid. II, 34(;. A variety of sujnata having the sub- apical spot lacking. Color and struc- ture otherwise exactly as in that spe- cies ; the females a little larger. Length
. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana : with bibliography and descriptions of new species . Beetles. THE LADY BEETLES. 523 hind margin as from the suture; the other has the spot yellow and located much farther from the suture, in usual situation of second spot in proha. lOOOa (- -)â Hyperaspis sigkata binotata Say Sci., V, 1826, 302; ibid. II, 34(;. A variety of sujnata having the sub- apical spot lacking. Color and struc- ture otherwise exactly as in that spe- cies ; the females a little larger. Length mm. (Fig. 192a.) Throughout the State; frequent. Hibernates beneath chunks and rubbish in waste places. January 6-October 17. Usually regarded as a mere form of signata. Casey, however, gives it specific rank. .Tourn. Phil. Acad. Fig. 192a. o, beetle; h, antennEe; c, maxillary palpi d, pupa. (After Forbes.) 1000b (3112). Hyperaspis sigkata proba Say, Joui'n. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., V, 1820, 803; ibid. II, 347. Resembles slgnutu but smaller and less convex. Head and thorax of male as in that species; elytra with two small subapical reddish-yellow dots and a much larger and deeper red discal spot. Surface more finely punctured. Length mm. Lake, Steuben, Knox and Crawford counties; scarce. jMay 16- July 10. A large series of specimens will doubtless show sign-atn, hinotata and proha to be color forms of one, species. 1001 (3114). Hyperaspis bigeminata Rand., Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. II, .32. Rounded, convex. Black, shining; head with a large yellow frontal spot in male, wholly black in female; thorax with a large internally rounded orange spot each side; elytra with a similar circular spot just before the apex. Elytra strongly, thorax more finely punctured. Length mm. Lake, Marshall, Kosciusko. Putnam and Clarion counties; scarce. May 25-July 4. 1002 (3115). Leo.; Proc. I'liil. Acad, Nat. Sci., VI. ]sr,2, 134. Broadly ov.'il, sub
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