RUTELIISLE 19 



Scarabaeidae which I received from Mr. John Sherman, Jr., has not 

 been alluded to by Horn or Schaeffer. Mr. Blatchley very kindly 

 sent me a typical example of his pubescens for examination and 

 the species proves to be identical with ludoviciana. 



The three Central American forms described above belong 

 without much doubt in the vicinity of cnethopyga Bates, but none 

 of them seems to bear more than a general resemblance to that 

 species; there are doubtless a considerable number of Central 

 American species of that type. 



Section B (minuta). 



The upper ramus of the larger claw of the anterior male tarsi, 

 which becomes extremely short, fine and aciculate in the ludoviciana 

 type of the preceding section, is here wholly extinct. Burmeister 

 states under his description of minuta that it is "kaum sichtbar," 

 but as can be demonstrated under ample magnification, there is 

 really no trace of it, and the language of Burmeister was doubtless 

 employed because of a hesitation to believe that the species could 

 possess a character usually considered of generic value, in view of 

 its perfectly harmonious facies in the general American series of 

 Anomala. Minuta was confounded with innuba by our earlier 

 authors, but its identity was finally determined by Ohaus. There 

 are two species of this group before me as follows: 



Form stout, convex, broader posteriorly, shining, rufo-piceous, the sides 

 of the pronotum and base broadly, sometimes reduced to a small 

 transverse median dash, yellow, the elytra blackish-piceous, darker 

 at the humeral callus and becoming nubilously pallid broadly on 

 the disk of each basally and at apex, glabrous above but having 

 sparse short hairs on the sterna; head fully half as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, the front finely, sparsely punctate, with a denser cluster 

 medially, the clypeus short, transverse, broadly arcuate at apex, 

 the sides feebly diverging basally, the angles broadly rounded, the 

 surface flat, with strongly reflexed edges throughout, sparsely punc- 

 tate, shining; eyes small; antennae pale, the club slightly less so; 

 prothorax not quite twice as wide as long, the sides parallel, feebly 

 arcuate, rounding in almost apical half, the apex sinuate, with promi- 

 nent angles; base broadly lobed, with strong entire bead, the angles 

 obtuse, evidently rounded; surface finely but distinctly, sparsely 

 punctate throughout; scutellum sparsely punctate; elytra a fifth or 

 sixth longer than wide, slightly inflated behind, broadly and obtusely 

 rounded at apex, the series of moderate punctures barely at all 

 impressed, rather distinctly so and with coarser punctures laterad; 

 intervals but feebly convex, the alternate ones scarcely more so, the 



