NO. 3568 MELANOTUS — QUATE AND THOMPSON 67 



Elytron: 7.1 mm (6.3-7.8). 20 spec. 



Types. — Lectotype of leonardi: Male, labelled with pink circle "prob. 

 Pa." (MCZ). Second specimen of type series selected as lectotype by 

 authors in 1962; second, a male, chosen in preference to first, a female, 

 because males more accurately identified. 



Distribution. — Quebec to North Carolina, west to Texas. 



Connecticut: Litchfield; June. Indiana: Marion; June. Maine: Hancock, 

 Oxford, Washington; July. Massachusetts: Suffolk, Worcester; June. New 

 Hampshire: Cheshire, Strafford; no dates. New York: Essex, Jefferson; April, 

 June. North Carolina: Buncombe; June. Texas: Bexar; June. Vermont: 

 No data. Ontario: Mustota Dist., OrrvUle; June. Quebec: Duparquet, Mt. 

 St. Hilaire, Perkins Mills; June, July. 



44. Melanotus taenicollis (LeConte) 



Figures 71, 12j 



Cratonychiis taenicollis LeConte, 1853, p. 475. 



Melanotus taenicollis: Candfeze, 1860, p. 348. — Thomas 1941, p. 259. — Dietrich, 

 1945, p. 56. 



Male. — Black and orange or reddish brown, body largely black 

 Avith orange on margins and ventral part of pronotum, on anterior 

 border of elytra, on legs, and over entire, or on margins of, abdominal 

 venter, antenna usually dark reddish brown but lobes of flagellar 

 segments sometimes lighter colored. 



Head: Front mth anterior depression; margin scarcely protuberant 

 in front of nasale, coining to point in center when view^ed from above; 

 nasale flat, parantennal fovea absent. Mandible without pit. An- 

 tenna short of tip of hind angle apex by about 1 segment; segment 3 

 small, little larger than 2, but much smaller than 4, flagellar segments 

 broad; erect male hairs may be sparse but easily seen. 



Prontotum wider than long, ratio of width/length = 1.15-1.26; punc- 

 tures subequal to those on front, central ones separated by about own 

 diameter; sides of pronotum evenly rounded with marked concavity 

 at base of hind angles; hind angles parallel or divergent, carina weak, 

 extending just to hind angle base. Genitalia as figured; paramere 

 with apical blade. 



Elytron: 6.5 ±0.3 mm (6.0-6.9). 14 spec. 



Female. — Similar to male but less variation in body color; antenna 

 short of tip of hind angle by about 2 segments, segment 3 inter- 

 mediate in size between 2 and 4; internal genitalia as figured, bursa 

 with cluster of spinelike spines, smaller and more numerous than in 

 leonardi. 



Elytron: 6.7 ±0.4 mm (6.1-7.5). 16 spec. 



Types. — Lectotype of taenicollis: Male, labelled with pink circle 

 "Middle States; Pa." (MCZ 2512). First specimen of type series 



