114 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xxi. 



Peltodytes muticus Lee. 



According to my view this species, and all our other species of 

 Peltodytes, has eleven, not ten, stride on each elytron. 



I do not know why the fourth stria should be left out of the count 

 because it is interrupted, any more than the tenth, or eleventh as I 

 count, because it is placed so close to the lateral margin as to actually 

 crowd upon it, as is not infrequently the case. 



This interruption of the fourth stria has apparently been caused 

 by the strong sinuation, or incurving, of the fifth stria and I have 

 specimens, in muticus for example, in which the fifth stria is not so 

 strongly sinuate as usual and here the fourth is complete, with no 

 punctures missing from the fifth. 



As I count them we have a genus composed of species with the 

 elytra eleven striate, not one composed of species with the elytra 

 with either nine, ten or eleven striae, with parts of striae, or extra 

 striae, to be accounted for. Muticus should not be hard to recognize, 

 and is quite distinct from floridensis oppositus and shermani which 

 are mixed with it in some collections. The punctures of the striae on 

 the basal half of the elytra are strikingly coarse and deep, while those 

 of the lower half become smaller and smaller and much confused as 

 they approach the apex. 



The apices are not rounded, but truncate, slightly oblique and 

 feebly sinuate. The six spots on the elytra represent two triangles 

 in the upper of which the apical spot is weak, the lateral distinct and 

 the inner large and coalescent on the suture submedianly forming an 

 irregular patch, while in the lower, subapical triangle the spots are 

 small and more or less indistinct, but not coalescent. 



There is no subhumeral spot and the suture is very narrowly mar- 

 gined with black except where it expands to coalesce with the sub- 

 median spot. 



It is not strongly arched, or " chicken-breasted," underneath the 

 body. 



The mid-metasternum is nearly flat, very lightly impressed each 

 side, with the margins fine, arcuate and nearly reaching suture of 

 antecoxal piece. 



Hind coxal plates with small evenly placed punctures, rounded 

 behind and showing scarcely a trace of angulation. 



