25C) DESCRIPTION OF ELEVEN NEW SPECIES 



6. L. solea. Testaceous ; elytra with deep impunctured 

 strict, a common sutural band narrower near the middle, not 

 reaching the apex, to which it is contiguous on each side, 

 with a submarginal band which tapers towards the humerus. 



Length hardly a quarter of an inch. 



Inhabits Massachusetts. 



This insect is quite distinct from L. vittata, which is larger 

 and differs from this in many respects. I cannot see that the 

 interstice between the black bands has ever been white, as no 

 trace remains of that colour as in L. vittata. The body and 

 feet are testaceous ; the head bordering on the rufous ; the an- 

 tennae are dusky with paler base. The interstitial lines on the 

 elytra are convex, which is not the case with L. vittata. 



Melolontha. 



7. M. porcma. Densely covered with short yellow hair ; 

 clypeus emarginate ; head piceous or black with a few hairs ; 

 antennae and legs ferruginous ; thorax punctured, very hairy. 

 with a longitudinal black line formed by the absence of 

 hair ; elytra castaneous, pubescent. 



Length little more than one inch. 



Inhabits Massachusetts. 



This must be a rare insect, as I never saw but one speci- 

 men, and it was new to my friend Dr Harris ; the head and 

 thorax are piceous or blackish, but the thorax is covered with 

 so much yellow hair, that it gives it a pale greenish appear- 

 ance. The hair which covers the insect is short except on 

 the margin of the elytra and postpectus, where it is long. 



8. Mi variolosa. Covered with short white hair ; clypeus 

 subquadrate, broader at tip, entire, ferruginous ; antennae fer- 

 ruginous, clava very long, seven laminae ; thorax blackish with 

 three obsolete longitudinal impressed lines obsoletely marked 



