November, 1844.] 141 



suture, the anterior one is placed a little before the middle, and is not interrupted 

 at the lateral margins, the posterior band is located before the apex and does not 

 attain the lateral edges: beneath and feet testaceous ; tarsi reddish-brown-piceous, 

 with the anterior tibiae bi-dentate. 



3. A.pinicola. Greenish-black; elytra dark reddish-brown- — 3| — 4-f l.long, 

 2£ — 2| 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Melolontha pinicola, Melsh. MS. 



strigata, " Oatal. 86. 



Var. Testaceous; disk of the thorax greenish-brown. M. lateralis, Melsh. 

 Catal. 85. 



Head greenish-black, sometimes with a purple reflection ; transverse line fine; 

 profoundly punctured, with the front and clypeus densely wrinkled, the latter 

 often testaceous, truncate at tip, the edge reflexed : antennae and palpi testaceous, 

 the former with the club black or dark brown: thorax color of the head, con- 

 fluently and profoundly punctured, and with numerous irregular, polished 

 wrinkles ; posterior angles subrectilinear, anterior ones acute : scutel color of the 

 thorax, profoundly and coarsely punctured : elytra dusky reddish-brown-piceous, 

 crenate-striate, interstices convex, of which four or five are more elevated than the 

 others, minutely and distantly punctured : pygidium color of the abdomen, trans- 

 verse-rugulose, and with sparse cinereous hairs : beneath and feet color of the 

 thorax, strongly punctured ; feet mostly piceous, with the anterior tibiae bidentate. 

 9 . Generally testaceous, the interstices of the elytra less raised than in o, 

 and more numerously punctured. Very abundant in Pennsylvania ; occurs in 

 July, on the Red or Pitch Pine. 



Hoplia, Illig. 



1. H. monticola. Head, thorax and scutel blackish or dark brown ; elytra 

 dull red-testaceous. — 3£ 1 long, It I. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Melolontha monticola, Melsh. Catal. 



Elongate: head ccarsely punctured, clothed with short ochraceous hairs; cly- 

 peus dull rufous, somewhat elongate, with the margin reflexed, and truncate at 

 tip, an obsolete transverse line at base: antennae rufous: palpi yellowish : thorax 

 dusky reddish-brown, verg'ng to blackish, finely and transversely wrinkled, 

 clothed with short rufous hairs, and sprinkled at sides and base with small whitish 

 scaly ones: scutel black, densely punctulate : elytra more than twice as long as 

 the thorax, dull castaneous, densely and finely grained, clothed with short rufous 

 hairs; two obsolete longitudinal raised lines near the middle: pygidium and 

 venter castaneous, the former clothed like the elytra, the latter covered with 

 small whitish scaly hairs : pectus brown : feet chestnut-red, sprinkled with whit- 

 ish scales. 



2. H. trislis. Blackish, pilose ; beneath densely covered with white scales — 

 4$ I. long, 2£ I. wide. Virginia. 



Head rugose-punctate, villose, with the edge of the clypeus slightly reflexed, 

 and almost truncate at apex : thorax with the sides dilated in the middle and 



