2O MEMOIRS ON THE COLEOPTERA 



second broad, with broadly confused deep punctures; fourth and 

 sixth each with a single series of smaller punctures; pygidium with 

 rather close-set and distinct arcuato-lineate punctures. Length 

 (cf 9 ) 6.7-7.3 mm.; width 3.8-4.0 mm. North Carolina (Southern 

 Pines), Manee. Abundant. [Anomala minuta Burm.]. 



minuta Burm. 



Form narrower and less convex than in minuta, shining, the type black 

 throughout the body and legs, the under surface slightly piceous; 

 head relatively a little larger, three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, 

 the front with a larger area of strong and rather close-set punctua- 

 tion; clypeus narrower, with much more widely diverging sides 

 basally, otherwise nearly similar, the edges strongly reflexed through- 

 out; eyes small; antennae black, piceous basally; prothorax narrower, 

 convex, only three-fifths wider than long, similar, except that the 

 basal bead is finer, the lobe rather more feeble and the sparse punc- 

 tures everywhere stronger; scutellum smaller, more punctate; elytra 

 but little longer than wide, less inflated posteriorly, with similarly 

 very feebly impressed striae, which are however very much more 

 coarsely and deeply punctured, the coarse confused punctures of the 

 second interval less defined because of admixture with a coarse 

 transverse plicatulation of the general surface; intervals four and six 

 with the punctures extremely minute; pygidium less transverse, 

 similarly convex, the arcuato-lineiform punctures more close-set 

 and very much stronger than in minuta; middle coxae very narrowly 

 separated as in the preceding. Length (c?) 6.7 mm.; width 3.5 mm. 

 Florida (Marion Co.) mendica n. sp. 



It is quite possible that the single type of mendica may be a 

 melanic modification of a normally paler species, but, as shown by 

 form and sculpture, it is not closely allied to minuta. Of the latter 

 I received a series of fourteen specimens, which do not vary in 

 coloration, except in slightly paler or darker tints and in the extent 

 of the large dark thoracic spot. 



Section C (flavipennis) . 



This is the largest section of the subgenus Paranomala, and it 

 occurs throughout all of the nearctic and neotropical provinces, 

 excepting the northern Pacific coast regions. Many of the Sonoran 

 forms are rather slender and frail insects, with very thin pallid 

 integuments, there being comparatively few instances where a 

 metallic thoracic lustre becomes very obvious. The numerous 

 species in my collection may be identified by the following char- 

 acters : 



Middle coxae rather well separated; body stout and more massive 2 



Middle coxae very narrowly separated 6 



