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Niagara, Orange, Rockland. Schenectady, Tompkins, Wayne, Westchester; 

 March-December. North Carolina: Wake (Mills River); June, September. 

 Ohio: Athens, Franklin, Hocking, Richland; March, November. Oklahoma: 

 Woodward; June. Pennsylvania: Allegheny, Bucks, Philadelphia, York; 

 March-September. South Carolina: Oconee; September, December. South 

 Dakota: Bon Homme, Brookings, Union ; June-July. Tennessee: Montgomery; 

 April, Texas: Harrison, Gonzales; April, June. Virginia: Alexandria, Canal, 

 Fairfax, Loudoun, Nottaway, Spotsylvania; March-December. Washington, 

 D.C: March-September. West Virginia: Marion; no date. 



6. Melanotus indistinctus Qiiate, new species 



Figures 4A;, 9f,g 



Male. — Same as communis, but average size smaller, a little darker 

 in color, frontal margin little wider than black border, parantennal 

 fovea small but distinct, and pronotal pimctures somewhat larger and 

 denser. Genitalia with slender, tapering aedeagus, paramere shorter 

 and thicker in communis, emargination before blade deeper and more 

 marked, blade broader and shorter. 



Elytron: Holotype 8.2 mm; paratypes 8.3 ±0.5 mm (7.4-9.4). 50 

 spec. 



Female. — Not clearly separable from communis (see discussion 

 below) . 



Distribution. — Virginia west to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. 



Holotype, male (USNM): Pittsfield, Pike Co., 111., July 6, 1946, A. T. McClay. 



Paratypes, 122 males (USNM, CU, ILL, U. Mo., U. Nebr., TEX AM, CAS, 

 Lane CoU'n): Illinois: same as holotype, July 5-9, 1946; same, June 24, July 1, 

 7, 9, 1947, B. Cadwell; La Clede, Fayette Co., July 7, 1950, Ross and Sanderson; 

 Shawneetown, Gallatin Co., June 14, 1934, Ross and DeLong; Havana, Mason 

 Co., July 8, 1910, at light; Harrisburg, Saline Co., June 25, 1932, Ross, Dozier, 

 Park; Dubois, Washington Co., July 2, 1909, at light; Fox Ridge St. Pk., July 9, 



1944. Virginia: Holland, Nansemond Co., April 28, 1947, W. D. Fronk. 

 Kentucky: no other data. Mississippi: Lincoln Co., May 18, 1938, peach 

 tree, W. F. Turner. Missouri: St. Louis, August 12, 1935, June 22, 1937, 

 USD A traps; Webster Groves, St. Louis, May 31, 1919, June 17, 1919, Satter- 

 thwait; Charleston, Mississippi Co., June 12, 1917, Satterthwait; Columbia, Boone 

 Co., May 4, 1940, W. R. Enns; same, June 15, 1907, R. H. Wolcott; same, July 14, 

 1941, H. E. Brown; Lathrop, CHnton Co., July 3, 1948, E. C. Becker. Louisiana: 

 Shreveport, Caddo Co., June 2, 1949, J. H. Robinson; Ohvier, Iberia Co., April 

 1904, E. S. G. Titus; Leesville, Vernon Co., May 1948, H. S. Fitch. Arkansas: 

 Clark Co., May 12, 1939, M. W. Sanderson; Hope, Hempstead Co., April 30, 1925, 

 April 23, 1926, May 17, 1926, July 5, 1926, June 25, 1931, L. Knobel; Hempstead 

 Co., May 8, 1939, Sanderson and Van Dyke; Miller Co., May 8, 1939, Sanderson; 

 Fayetteville, Washington Co., May 31, 1942, at light, Sanderson; Washington Co., 

 May 30, 1938, Sanderson and C. Cameron. Kansas: Medora, Reno Co., July 3; 

 same, July 14, 1926, J. W. McCoUoch. Oklahoma: Muse, LeFlore Co., May 7, 

 1939, Sanderson. Texas: LuUng, Gonzales Co., May 2, 1953, B. J. Adelson; 

 Tyler, Smith Co., May 20, 1942, L. D, Christenson, Bronson, Sabine Co., May 30, 



1945, J. H. Robinson; Tyler, Smith Co., March 24, 1939, L. S. Jones. "So. 

 McAlester, Ind. T., June 11, Wickham." Cherokee Co., May 5, 1952, June 1, 



