158 Journal New York Entomological Society, t^'o'- xxx. 



Canada : 



Ontario: " E. Ontario," i ^ ; Hymers, i (^ ; "Hudson Bay," i (^ ; Nepigon, 



3 J", I ?; Ottawa, i <^, i ?. 



New Brunswick: Chaleur Bay, i (^ ; St. Andrews, i^; St. Stephens, i j^. 

 Quebec : Charlevoix Co., i $ ; Fort Coulonge, z 3- 2 J ; Three Rivers, 



4 c?, 2 ?. 



Nova Scotia: Aylesford, i$; Kentville, 2 ($. 2$; Middleton, ij; Round 



Hill, 2<S; Truro, 9 d", 7 ?• 

 Manitoba: Aweme, i c? ; Onah, i 5; Stonewall, i (j*; Winnipeg, i (^, i 5. 

 Magdalen Islands : i ^. 

 The absence of any differential characters in the genital armatures 

 of trisfis and scricca might lead one at first to sttppose that they were 

 not specifically distinct. However, the two forms do not intergrade, 

 though occupying overlapping, but not coextensive, ranges. We 

 should therefore regard them as quite distinct species. 



Serica apatela new species. 



^. Length, 8 mm.; width, 5 mm. Color brown (dark bay), surface 

 less strongly opaque and velvety than in sericea, but with a well-developed 

 and brilliant sheen of colors. In other characters greatly resembling sericea, 

 but differing from that species in having relatively shorter and less parallel- 

 sided elytra, and in having the sparse, erect clypeal hairs well distributed 

 instead of confined to the anterior portion of the clypeus as in sericea. 



The genital armature resembles the type seen in sericea and tristis, but 

 is quite distinct in the possession of the thorn-like tooth on the somewhat 

 modified claspers (PI. XII). 



5. Differs from the J' in having the head and pronotum polished and 

 shining, without any iridescent luster, and in having a small antennal club 

 (6.5 instead of 12), thus showing a greater difference in the size of the 

 antennal clubs than was the case in sericea. 



Type: (^. Tumblin Gap, Alabama, June 3 to 8, 191 1 (H. P. Loding). 



Allotype : 5- Same data. 



Paratype : i 5- Monte Sano, Madison Co., Alabama. June 9 to 11, 191 1 (H. 

 P. Loding). 



Serica parallela Casey. 



Serica parallela Casey, Contributions to Coleopterology of N. A., ii, p. 



176 (1884). 

 Serica parallela Brenske, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., xlvii, p. 36 (1902). 



c?. Length, 7.5-8.5 mm. ; width, 4.2-4.8 mm. Color varying throvigh the 

 shades mahogany red, bay and chestnut, surface velvety and opaque, with 

 only a slight iridescence observable when viewed at an oblique angle in 

 good light. 



Clypeus plane, or feebly tumid at the middle of its apical third; ante- 



