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Coleopterological Notices, VI. 607 



SCARAB.EID.E. 

 POI.YPHYLI.A Harris. 



The species described below is one of the allies of decimlineata. 



P. pacifica n. sp. — 01)long-oval, convex, piceous-black, the prothorax 

 pale and bright red-brown ; sterna pale, the abdomen blackish with the pos- 

 terior half of the fourth and the entire hfth segment red ; femora pale rufous, 

 the tibite and tarsi darker; vestiture much sparser than in decimlineata but al- 

 most similarly disposed and colored, the yellow scales extremely large and 

 broad and the oblique white humeral vitta very narrow and rather short, the 

 submarginal stripe beginning at some distance behind the humeri; pygidium 

 very sparsely clothed, having large broad scattered yellowish scales inter- 

 mingled with fine sparse hairs, almost completely glaln'ons toward apex and 

 deeply impressed in the middle near the base. Mead less than one-half as 

 wide as the prothorax, the clypeus truncate with obtuse angles, broadly arcuate 

 toward the middle; punctures deep and Avell separated; antennal club nearly 

 three-fifths as long as the entire stem. Prothorax quite distinctly more than 

 twice as wide as long, broadly subaugulate at the sides just behind the middle, 

 the apex slightly more than two-tliirds as wide as the base; disk coarsely and 

 very sparsely punctate, finely, densely so and covered densely with white 

 scales along the impressed median line and in a small discal spot at lateral 

 fifth and just behind the middle. Elytra one-half longer than wide, two-fifths 

 wider than the prothorax, the sides parallel and rather strongly arcuate. 

 Length 25.0 mm. ; width 13.6 mm. 



California. 



This species differs from decimlineata in coloration, in its smaller 

 size and rather stouter form, sparser and very much broader 

 scales, A^ery much shorter, broader and more sparsely clothed 

 P3'gidium, shorter and stouter hind femora and numerous other 

 features. It is represented by a single female from the Levette 

 cabinet. 



THYCE Lee. 



The following species differs widely from any other thus far 

 discovered in the form of the prothorax : — 



T. pistoria n. sp. — Stout, oval and convex, pale brownish-testaceous 

 throughout, the vestiture short, white and very dense, the hairs slightly stout 

 but not at all squamiform, denser near the sides of the pronotum and ex- 

 tremely dense on the scutellum, slightly denser on the pygidium than on the 

 elytra, intermingled on the head and pronotum with numerous fine erect and 

 pale silky hairs, the latter extremely long and dense beneath throughout the 

 extent of the sterna; abdomen uniformly clothed like the elytra but sparsely 

 so along the middle, especially near the apex. Head scarcely more than two- 

 fifths as wide as the jnothorax, the clypeus broadly arcuato-truncate and feebly 



