208 Journal New York Entomological Society. tVoi. xxviii, 



26. 191 1 — Gahan, The Entom. 



27. 1913 — Snyder, Ent. Soc. Wash., XV, pp. 30—31. 



28. 1915 — Brues & Melander, Key to the Families of Ins., p. 30. 



EXPLAN.ATION OF Pl.\TE X. 



Fig. I. — Cupes lobiceps Lee, dorsal aspect. 

 Fig. 2. — Cupes concolor Westw., dorsal aspect. 

 Fig. 3. — Priacma serrata Lee, dorsal aspect. 

 Fig 4. — Cupes capitatiis Fabr., dorsal aspect. 

 Fig. 5.- — Cupes capitatus Fabr., lateral view of head. 

 Fig. 6. — Cupes capitatiis Fabr., ventral aspect. 



Fig. 7. — (A) Cupes concolorWestw. — Detail of elytral sculpture. (B) Cupes 

 ocnlatus Casey — Detail of elytral sculpture (after sketch by Casey). 



NEW SPECIES OF SERICA (SCARAB^ID^). III. 



By R. W. Dawson, 



Lincoln, Nkbraska. 

 Serica loxia new species. 



(^. Length 7 mm. Color auburn, surface bare, polished and shining. 



Clypeus nearly level with the front, feebly impressed below the suture and 

 before the reflexed margins, broadly and feebly tumid just below the middle ; 

 anterior margin abruptly, moderately elevated, nearly straight viewed vertically, 

 lateral margins distinctly reflexed, separated from the anterior margin by a 

 sharp, rather deep incisure ; punctures moderately strong and closely placed, 

 separated by about half their own diameters ; clypeal suture distinct, very 

 obtusely angled at the middle. Front less closely and regularly punctured, the 

 punctures nearly or quite wanting on the occipital area, separated by one half 

 to two times their own diameters on the lower portion of the sclerite. Eyes 

 and antennal club of moderate size. Measurements of head (in tenths of a 

 millimeter) as follows : Diameter of head through eyes, 20 ; distance between 

 the inner eye margins, 12; length of head on median line, 16; extreme width 

 of clypeus in front of incisure, 9 ; antennal club, 8 ; dorso-ventral diameter 

 of eye, 5. 



Pronotum relatively broad, short, and flat, the sides nearly straight, and 

 only moderately convergent to the anterior angles ; surface rather strongly, 

 closely and evenly punctured, the punctures separated by one to two times 

 their own diameters. Measurements of pronotum as follows : Width through 

 posterior angles, 31 ; width through anterior angles, 21 ; length of median line, 

 17. Scutellum with a few strong punctures, closer toward the sides; length, 

 6.5 ; width, 6.5. 



Elytra with the usual, moderately well developed striae, each stria with 

 three confused rows of closely placed punctures. Length of elytra, 54 ; greatest 

 width, 40. 



