NO. 3568 MELANOTUS — QUATE AND THOMPSON 37 



the size range of that species, M. depressus has page priority over 

 parumpunctatus and is the preferred name. 



17. Melanotus morosus Candeze 



Figures 5h, lOe 

 Crafonychus longulus LeConte, 1853, p. 480. [Not LeConte, 1853, p. 473.] 

 Melanotus morosus Candfeze, 1860, p. 346. — Fattig, 1951, p. 22. 

 Melanotus debilis Blatchley, 1910, p. 754; 1930, p. 36. [New synonymy.] 

 Melanotus simulans Blatchley, 1927, p. 140; 1930, p. 48. — Fattig, 1951, p. 22. 



]Male. — Body color reddish brown, covered with white hairs, evenly 

 distributed over body. 



Head: Front with shallow or no anterior depression, margin not 

 strongly protuberant above clypeus, evenly rounded or flattened 

 anteriorly; parantennal fovea moderately large and deep, circular; 

 nasale about 1% times as wide as high. Mandible with deep teardrop- 

 shaped pit; palpus light reddish brown. Antenna exceeds tip of hind 

 angle by 1-2 segments, reddish brown, ratio of segments 2:3:4=3: 5:6, 

 segment 4 about twice as long as maximum width; erect male hairs 

 short but dense and easily seen. 



Pronotum wider than long, ratio of width/length =1.04-1.18; 

 punctures at center usually separated by distance equal to more 

 than own diameter, smaller than punctures on front; sides of pronotum 

 usually straight behind anterior curvature and subparallel, but often 

 rounded with concavity at base of hind angles; hind angles slightly 

 divergent, carina usually extending cephalad of base of hind angle. 

 Genitalia as figured; paramere without apical blade. 



Elytron: 7.8 ±0.6 mm (6.3-8.8). 40 spec. 



Female. — Antenna extends to or beyond base of pronotum by 1 

 segment; genitalia as figm'ed, bursa with very dense, shaggy appearing, 

 quadrate patch of setiform spines and few peglike spines on apical 

 extension, accessory gland very slender, spermathecal duct branches 

 near center. 



Elytron: 8.1 ±0.6 mm (7.0-9.0). 20 spec. 



Types. — Lectotype of longulus: Male, labelled with orange circle 

 "Southern States" (MCZ 2524). First specimen of type series selected 

 as lectotype by authors in 1962. Second and 3rd specimens not 

 true types, labelled "Tex."; 4th specimen apparently infaustus. 



Holotype of debilis: Female, Marshall Co., Ind., June 26, 1904, 

 W.S.B. (PU). 



Lectotype oi simulans: Male, Dunedin, Fla., Mar. 15, 1918, W.S.B. 

 (PU). 



In the Institut Royal des Science Naturelles, Brussels, there is a 

 male from Iowa City, Iowa, labelled as the type of morosus. In the 

 British Museum (Natural History) there is another female from 

 Georgia labelled as the type of morosus. Neither of these specimens 



