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in the other specimen to warrant description. Length of type, from 

 front of clypeus to the abdominal apex, 16.85 mm.; of elytron, 10 mm. 



Described from two specimens, one with, the other without counter- 

 part. 



Type — No. 2,571 M. C. Z. Florissant, Col. (No. 13,610 S. H. 

 Scudder Coll.). Paratype, No. 2,572, 2,573 M. C. Z. (No. 8,162 

 and 8,279 S. H. Scudder Coll.). 



A good-sized species apparently belonging in the group with the 

 elongate forms which are rather abundant in Mexico and the south- 

 western United States. In the paratype the sides of the prothorax 

 are more divergent posteriorly and the elytral punctuation is better 

 shown, but I think there is no doubt of its specific identity with the 

 type. 



Anomala scudderi, sp. nov. 

 Plate 8, fig. 4-6. 



Form elongate, the abdomen probably unnaturally extended in the 

 specimen at hand. As only the ventral view is shown, the characters 

 of the head and prothorax are obscured. Elytron, (only one being 

 preserved), nearly two and a half times as long as wide, apex l)roadly 

 rounded, surface sculpture not showing through on to the underside 

 and for that reason probably not strong. Legs moderately elongate 

 and not very heavy, the tarsal joints rather stout and short, the claws 

 simple or nearly so except that one of the middle pair is toothed near 

 the base. Length, from front of head to abdominal apex, 9.25 mm.; 

 of elytron, 5.30 mm. 



Described from one specimen. 



Tiipe — ^o. 2,574 M. C. Z. Florissant, Col. (No. 5,125 S. H. 

 Scudder Coll.). 



Though lacking any very characteristic features, the leg and elytral 

 structures have led me to place this fossil in Anomala. The form, 

 if we assume that the abdomen is unnaturally distended, was not unlike 

 that of the modern A. semilivida. 



LiGYRUS Burmeister. 



This genus is represented by several species in North America at the 

 present day, and the Scudder collection of Florissant fossils contains 

 two. One of these has already been described, the other is undoubt- 

 edly new. 



