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well impressed, coarser laterad, the second interval strongly and 

 confusedly punctate, the fourth uniserially, 3-5-7 more strongly 

 convex, smooth; pygidium with well separated and superficial 

 anastomosing arcuate scratches, a little stronger in the male. Male 

 with the larger anterior claw stout, deeply cleft, the upper ramus 

 slender, not quite as long as the lower and very much thinner; female 

 with the same claw much more slender, arcuate, deeply cleft at apex, 

 the lobes of equal length and subequal in thickness. Length (cf ) 

 7.5-8.9, (9) 7.8-9.8 mm.; width (cf) 4.3-4.9, (9) 4.6-5.8 mm. 

 Rhode Island to Kansas. Abundant. [Melolontha mcerens and 



atrata Fabr., and pinicola Mels.] lucicola Fabr. 



Elytral punctures coarser, the striae deeper and more sulciform, the body 

 narrower in form, the lustre more or less evidently metallic, except 

 on the elytra and under surface. Form elongate-oval, strongly 

 convex; male much smaller than the female and dark red-brown in 

 color, most of the head and the pronotum, except at the sides, black, 

 the female more pallid in color, the pronotum pale, generally more 

 or less mottled with a metallic blackish tint; head rather large, in 

 great part punctato-scabrous, the eyes small, the clypeus very short 

 and transverse, unusually truncate at apex, the angles moderately 

 rounded, the edges abruptly and distinctly reflexed; antennal club 

 (cf ) distinctly, or ( 9 ) very much, shorter than the stem; prothorax 

 (cf) nearly twice as wide as long, or ( 9 ) larger and very much 

 less transverse, in form nearly as in the preceding but with less 

 rounded sides, the surface shining but more uneven and with coarser, 

 deeper and more approximate punctures, the vestiges of the basal 

 beading similar; scutellum less abbreviated, punctured like the 

 pronotum; elytra with the striae coarser, deeper, more regularly 

 and closely spaced in the male than in the female, the costuliform 

 intervals 3-5-7-9 more evidently differentiated in the latter sex, 

 where the sculpture is nearly as in lucicola; in the male it is quite 

 different, the punctures of the second interval not being moderate 

 and widely diffused but lying within two feeble unequal sulci, which 

 coalesce and form a single large deep sulcus posteriorly; pygidium 

 shining, with well separated superficial anastomosing scratches in 

 both sexes. Male with the larger anterior claw nearly as in lucicola, 

 except that the upper ramus is smaller, much shorter and still finer; 

 female with the same claw long, slender, the apex not deeply cleft, 

 the upper lobe a little shorter and distinctly thinner than the lower. 

 Length (cf) 7-7-8.6, (9) 8.5-10.5 mm.; width (cf) 44-4-8, (9) 

 4.7-5.5 rnm- North Carolina (Southern Pines), Manee. Eight 



examples. [Anomala oblivia Horn.] oblivia Horn 



A Similar to oblivia but smaller in both sexes, the latter however 

 bearing to each other the same relationship in size and coloration; 

 head distinctly smaller in both sexes but otherwise similar; 

 antennal club (cf ) very nearly as long as the stem, or ( 9 ) much 

 shorter; prothorax of the male much less transverse, less transverse 

 than in the female, the punctures strong and deep, still closer in 

 both sexes than in oblivia; elytra nearly similar in sculpture in 

 the two sexes and as in the female of oblivia; pygidium nearly 



