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form, rather finely, very densely punctured throughout and with 

 erect, dense and moderately long pubescence (cf), or with the 

 punctures not quite so small and not contiguous, with slightly 

 shorter pubescence (9), the sexual differences in sculpture and 

 pubescence far less marked than in pilipennis; scutellum similar; 

 elytra rather more distinctly elongate, opaque, pale reddish-flavate, 

 the black sutural markings much more contracted, the transverse bar 

 behind the middle more differentiated and the flanks entirely pale to 

 partially black, the entire base sometimes broadly black, the apex 

 black; punctures minute and very feeble, generally not evident any- 

 where except toward the sides, the apical black area feebly rugulose; 

 erect hairs very short and sparse, minute in the female; pygidium 

 rather more acutely tumid along the median line, feebly vermiculato- 

 rugulose, differing but little in the sexes, having a much smaller 

 tomentose spot near each side than in pilipennis. Length (8 cf , I 9 ) 

 10.4-11.5 mm.; width 5.8-6.5 mm. New Jersey. [ Cetonia areata 



Fabr.] areata Fabr. 



Teeth of the anterior tibiae very long and spiniform, the lower two some- 

 what bending downward; pronotum always with a large comminuted 

 area of tomentum near each side. Body slightly larger, much stouter, 

 nearly similar in coloration, ornamentation, sculpture and vestiture; 

 spines at the clypeal apex equidistant; prothorax nearly two-fifths 

 wider than long, somewhat inflated basally, the sides very oblique 

 anteriorly, widest well behind the middle, the base evenly and 

 strongly rounded; surface finely and densely punctate and with 

 close, dense and moderately long hairs (cf), or with the punctures 

 distinctly larger but shallow, close-set and with the erect hairs 

 everywhere notably short ( 9 ) ; elytra but little longer than wide, 

 subparallel in the female, slightly cuneiform (cf ), the costae almost 

 obsolete, the punctures minute and indistinct; pygidium feebly 

 convex and subsimilar in the sexes, finely, closely rugulose, having a 

 large irregular tomentose spot near each side (cf ), or completely 

 and very densely tomentose, with the median line apically expanding 

 at apex nude, the hairs minute, not evident in the female; anterior 

 tibial spines long and subequidistant; hind tarsi as in areata, much 

 longer and more slender than in pilipennis, especially in the female; 

 each abdominal segment has a triangular spot of tomentum at each 

 side. Length (cf 9 ) 11.511.7 mm.; width 6.6-7.0 mm. Florida. 

 Two examples thoracica n. sp. 



Pilipennis is a species much more radically different from the 

 two Atlantic coast species, than would appear at first sight; this is 

 proved, not only by the very long shaggy pubescence of the male, 

 but especially by the structure of the hind tarsi and elytral sculp- 

 ture. In one male example of pilipennis in my series, the elytra 

 are almost wholly black, the buff-red tint being reduced to very 

 small disconnected areas at some distance from the sides and apex. 



