REVISION OF SUBGENUS PHYTALUS — SAYLOR 163 



Remarks. — This interesting species is known only from the type 

 material ; the above description is condensed from the original. The 

 holotype and allotype are from Burnsville, Ala. (July 20, 1930), and 

 Prattsburg, Ga. (July 24, 1930), respectively; through the courtesy of 

 Dr. Sanderson I was allowed to examine the male type before its 

 description. One male in my collection from "North America." 



PHYLLOPHAGA (PHYTALUS) GEORGIANA (Horn) 



Plate 9, Figure Zd; Plate 10, Figubes 3a-3c 

 Phy talus georgianus Hoen, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 12, p. 122, 1885. 



Male. — Rufous to rufotestaceous, head and thorax darker, surface 

 shining with a few short scattered hairs. Front of head coarsely 

 punctured, slightly rugose, with a small very irregular impunctate 

 area near the vertex; clypeal suture deeply impressed at sides only; 

 clypeus coarsely rugose-punctate; apex acutely not deeply but rather 

 broadly emarginate ; antennal club slightly longer than remainder of 

 the antennae, third and fourth segments elongate. Sides of thorax 

 not crenulate, hind angles rectangular, front angles very obtuse, disk 

 coarsely and densely variolate-punctate, a few minute hairs near 

 middle of the base. Elytra densely and coarsely rugose-punctate. 

 Pygidium very convex, rather densely and irregularly punctured, 

 glabrous, apex broadly rounded. Abdomen flattened at middle, pol- 

 ished, with a few setigerous punctures; segment 5 much shorter than 

 6, abruptly and narrowly declivate at apical margin; segment 6 

 slightly concave at center, with a transverse carina, the latter bearing 

 a row of sparse hairs, and the row interrupted at middle. Hind 

 tibial spurs spiniform, with the fixed one half as long as the other. 



Female. — In the specimen at hand, the antennae are 8-segmented, 

 with segment 3 very elongate, but it is probable that the normal num- 

 ber of segments is 9; club equal to segments 3-5 combined; last ab- 

 dominal segment very shallowly transversely sulcate, sparsely punc- 

 tured and fimbriate at apex; tibial spurs elongate, free; otherwise 

 similar to male. 



Length, 12.5-13 mm. Width, 6-6.5 mm. 



Remarks. — I have seen collected specimens from Whitesbog, N. J. 

 (July 9), "Barcoure," Ala., and three bred specimens from Lakehurst, 

 N.J. 



Described from Georgia, this rather rare species is distinctly sepa- 

 rated from the others by the sexual characters. Horn, in describing 

 the species, apparently overlooked the fact that one hind tibial spur 

 in the male is definitely fixed and immovable, though unless careful 

 examination is made the spurs appear to be free. 



