. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. MONOGRAPH OF THE GEXUS SAPERDA 69 the intervals, also in color and vestiture, and while some speci- mens come very close to each other, we have seen no intergrades of color and vestiture. T u 1 a r i in character seems to us to be intermediate between m o e s t a and c o n c o 1 o r . It may be well at this point to remember that our species have originated in the East, where all are found except two, p o p u I - n e a and h o r n i i. Of these, p o p u 1 n e a has not specialized from the Old World form, as has h o r n i i, which is ev
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. MONOGRAPH OF THE GEXUS SAPERDA 69 the intervals, also in color and vestiture, and while some speci- mens come very close to each other, we have seen no intergrades of color and vestiture. T u 1 a r i in character seems to us to be intermediate between m o e s t a and c o n c o 1 o r . It may be well at this point to remember that our species have originated in the East, where all are found except two, p o p u I - n e a and h o r n i i. Of these, p o p u 1 n e a has not specialized from the Old World form, as has h o r n i i, which is evidently descended from and is still closely related to s i m i 1 i s. C a 1 - c a r a t a is the only one of our species that extends to the west coast, where it has been found by Professor Piper in Washington. Bearing this in mind and remembering that m o e s t a , as a '^$: Fig. 7 Elytral characters of females: atulari, punctures scattered ; 3moesta, punctures contiguous; cpopulnea, punctures confluent. unicolorous form, as we know it in the East, has not crossed the Sierras and has not yet been found on the coast, there can be no question of its being distinct. T u 1 a r i, like m o e s t a , is evidently of American origin and not an emigrant from the Old World. The punctures and dense punctulations in the elytra show a wider divergence from p o p u 1 n e a than m o e s t a and connect that species and m o e s t a with c o n c o 1 o r . Description S. p o p u 1 n e a Linn. [pi. 7, fig. 4]. Black, shining, coarsely and deeply punctured, the punctures often contiguous and confluent on the elytra; a few punctulations which are sometimes wanting occurring between the punctures; sparsely covered with a light gray or fulvous pubescence; thorax with a lateral band of dense fulvous or vellowish grav hairs; elytra. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrati
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