Sept.-Dec, 1920.] Dawson : New Species of Serica. 209 



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. 



Posterior coxal plates shining, coarsely and closely punctured, the punc- 

 tures separated by about their own diameters. Metasternum nearly as strongly 

 and closely punctured as the coxal plates. Hind femora with a number of 

 scattered, coarse punctures, tending to condense into a line about two fifths 

 of the way from the posterior edge. Abdominal sternites less shining, with 

 the punctures about half to two thirds the size of those on the coxal plates, 

 and separated by about twice their own diameter. The usual single rows of 

 setigerous punctures present, but not conspicuous. 



Length of genital armature of male, 2.4 mm.; its most striking character 

 the sudden flexure of the tip of the left clasper across the right clasper. 

 (Plate XL) 



$. Differs from the male by the usual secondary sexual characters ; 

 smaller eyes, smaller antennae (club 5.6 instead of 8), less strongly notched 

 clypeus, less emarginate last ventral sclerite, and more convex under-line of 

 abdomen. 



Type: (^. Millers, Indiana, July 19. 1916. 



Allotype: $. Millers, Indiana, July 19, 1916. 



Paratypes : 6 ,^. 



Indiana: Lawrence County, i (^ ; Lake County, 2 (^. 

 Wisconsin : Bayfield, i (^. 



North Carolina: Highlands, i (^. 

 Georgia: Clayton, i (^. 



The scarcity of specimens of loxia in collections, and the wide dis- 

 tribution shown by the few at hand would seem to indicate that it is 

 one of the less common species. 



Serica Carolina new species. 



Serica Carolina Blanchard, M. S. 



(j*. Length 7.5-8 mm.; width, 4.5 mm. Color varying from Sanford's 

 brown to chestnut ; surface bare, polished and shining. 



Clypeus continuous with the even convexity of the front ; anterior margin 

 moderately reflexed, nearly straight, lateral margins a little less prominent 

 than the anterior margin and almost continuous with it ; clypeal notch almost 

 obsolete, being reduced to a mere angulation at the juncture of the lateral and 

 anterior margins ; punctures rather coarse and evenly placed, separated by 

 about their own diameters; clypeal suture fine, but distinct. Front less closely 

 and regularly punctured than the clypeus, punctures separated by one to three 

 times their own diameters. Antennal club well developed, and eyes rather 

 large. Measurements of the head as follows : Diameter of head through eyes, 

 2^ ; distance between inner eye margins, 13 ; length of head on median line, 15 ; 

 extreme width of clypeus in front of incisure, 10.6; antennal club, 8; dorso- 

 ventral diameter of eye, 9. 



