NO. 35G8 MELANOTUS — QUATE AND THOMPSON 15 



Elytron with punctures of striae moderately deep, separated by 

 distance equal to less than own diameter, interstrial area at center of 

 elytron about 3 times as wide as pimcture diameter. Venter of meta- 

 thorax and abdomen with evenly distributed, elongate punctures. 

 Metacoxal plate evenly tapering to apex. Genitalia as figured; 

 paramere with well-defined angle at tip, with about 8 hairs along 

 outer angle of apical blade. 



Elytron: 9.4±0.5 mm (7.9-11.4). 180 spec. 



Female. — Similar to male, larger, antenna shorter, extending to tip 

 of hind angle. Genitalia as figured, bursa with few to large number of 

 spines, spines short, about as long as diameter of base, accessory gland 

 very long and slender, as long as spermathecal duct and one-half as 

 wide, diverticulum branching near center of sperm, duct without 

 visible blind pouch apically in usual position near spermatheca. 



Elytron: 10.2 ±0.9 mm (8.4-12.8). 120 spec. 



Types. — Lectotype of similis: Male, "Amer. Bor,/ex Mus. Murray/ 

 Frey Coll. 1905-100" (BMNH). Selected by Quate, 1960. 



Types ofjissilis: Specimens lost. 



Lectotype of laticollis: Male, "Amer. Sept., Norwish" (ZM). 

 Lectotype selected by Quate, 1960, from co types of 1 male and 5 

 females. 



Lectotype of ochraceipennis: Female, "Pa./Ziegler" (MCZ). Se- 

 lected by Quate, 1962. Fu'st specimen of this species in Melsheimer 

 Collection too badly broken for positive identification and therefore 

 not selected as lectotype. 



Type of sphenoidalis: Male. "Pa." (MCZ). Only specimen in 

 Melsheimer Collection. 



Lectotype of exuberans: Male, probably Santa Fe, N. Mex. (MCZ). 

 First specimen in type series selected by Quate, 1962. Second speci- 

 men of type series is a female belonging to the communis complex and 

 is not exuberans. 



Distribution. — Southern Canada and U.S. east of Montana, Utah, 

 and Arizona; southwest to southern California andMexico. 



Alabama: Mobile; February, June. Arizona: Apache, Cochise, Coconino, 

 Gila, Graham, Madera, Maricopa, Pinal, Pima, Santa Cruz, Yavapai, Yuma; 

 April, October. Arkansas: Hempstead, Lawrence, Polk, Washington; March, 

 June. California: Riverside (Blythe); May, July. Colorado: El Paso, 

 Montezuma (Berkeley); July, August. Connecticut: Fairfield, Hartford, 

 Litchfield (January, reared?), Middlesex, New Haven, Tolland; May-November. 

 Florida: Brevard, Hendry, Manatee, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Seminole, 

 Volusia; February, August. Georgia: Chatham, Floyd, Fulton, Peach, Thomas, 

 Warren, Okefenoke Swamp; March, September. Illinois: Boone, Champaign, 

 Cook, DeKalb, Edgar, Iroquois, Jackson, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Kanakakee, Lake 

 McHenry, McLean, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Peoria, Putnam, Union, Vermihon; 

 March, September. Indiana: Clark, DeKalb, Greene, Knox, Lake, Marion, 

 Orange, Porter, Pulaski, Stark, Steuben, Tippecanoe, White; April, October. 



