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13.7-16.5 mm. North Carolina (Southern Pines) to Florida (Jack- 

 sonville). [Scarabceus splendens Beauv.] splendens Beauv. 



Depression of the pronotum very shallow, not defined at the sides. Body 

 larger, much stouter, darker castaneous in color, paler rufous 

 beneath, strongly shining throughout; head (9 ) not over a third as 

 wide as the prothorax, having a coarsely reticulate rugulosity, mingled 

 with distinct punctures, not concave, the smooth base embossed as 

 usual; ridge feeble but distinct, broadly divided; clypeus sculptured 

 like the vertex but less coarsely, the apex as in the two preceding; 

 mandibles with the two anterior teeth much more unequal than in 

 the female of splendens, the middle tooth broadly and obtusely 

 prominent but less so than in the male; prothorax differing greatly 

 in outline, trapezoidal, with evenly and distinctly arcuate sides, 

 widest near the base, the angles broadly rounded, the apical sinus 

 even, transverse medially; sculpture as in the two preceding species, 

 the apical tubercle low, feeble and obtuse but nearer the beading 

 than in splendens, the latter having the bead intact, while here its 

 posterior edge is disrupted opposite the tubercle; scutellum coarsely, 

 closely punctate on the steep basal slope; elytra broad, parallel, 

 with more arcuate sides than in the preceding, only very little longer 

 than wide, obtusely rounded in apical third, nearly a third wider 

 than the prothorax and twice as long, the sculpture obsolete as in 

 the two preceding; pygidium short and very transverse, almost four 

 times as wide as long, in surface and in sculpture nearly as in 

 splendens; broadly arcuate apex of the last ventral with a small 

 apical lobe, which is separated from the general surface by a trans- 

 verse area of eroded punctuation bearing a cluster of hairs, these 

 hairs continued along the apical margin to the sides; in splendens 

 there is a similar arrangement but without a projecting median 

 lobe. Length (9) 29.0 mm.; width 17.4 mm. North Carolina 

 (Southern Pines), Manee carolinensis n. sp. 



The pygidium is not so different in the sexes in the splendens 

 type as in some of the species of the cessus division of the genus, 

 where in such forms as durangoensis and inflatus it reminds us very 

 much of the conditon observable in Anoplognatho; this is another 

 fact tending to prove the close affiliation of that extraordinary genus 

 with the Strategid, rather than the Aphonid, section of the Penta- 

 dontid Oryctid series, although the prothorax has no trace of 

 modification in either sex. 



Durangoensis is different from any of the species described by 

 Dr. Kolbe from nothern Mexico (Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1906, p. 14). 

 Strategus adolescens, beckeri and fallaciosus belong, however, to the 

 present genus, and a mere glance at the photographs given by the 

 author, will convince one that two distinct genera are involved 

 among the forms now included under Strategus. 



