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Minthea rugicollis (Walker). 



Ditoma rugicollis Walker, 1858, p. 206. 



Minthea similata Pascoe, 1863, p. 141. 



Minthea rugicollis (Walker) Waterhouse, 1894, p. 68; Arrow, 1904, pp. 35-36; 



Reitter, 1906, p. 423. 

 Eulachus hispidtis Blackburn, 1885, p. 141. 

 Lyctopholis foveicollis Reitter, 1878, p. 199. 



Prothorax at the middle of the dorsum with an oblong-oval, deeply 

 impressed foveola. Subcylindrical, ferruginous, feebly shiny, some- 

 what densely clothed with erect, white, subsquamose bristles thick- 

 ened at the apex. First segment of club of antennae subquadrately 

 transverse, the terminal half again as long as it, elongate oval. Pro- 

 thorax somewhat densely pimctate, the punctures scarcely separated, 

 not at all deeply impressed; elytra a little wider than prothorax, par- 

 allel, lightly seriately punctured, the punctures very feebly impressed, 

 interspaces just visibly rugose, feebly shining, the alternate ones with 

 erect seriate bristles. Length about 2 mm. [Translated from 

 Reitter's original description o^ fovficoUis.] 



Minthea stichothrix (Reitter). 

 Lyctopholis stichothrix Reitter, 1878, p. 199. 



Thorax with the dorsum scarcely excavated, but with an almost 

 obsolete longitudinal line at the middle, becoming less anteriorly at 

 the apex. Subcylindrical, ferruginous, rather densely clothed with 

 long, white, erect setae thickened at the apex. First segment of 

 antennal club transverse, the terminal segment three times as long 

 as the former, subcylindrical. Head and thorax confusedly, rugosely 

 punctured, opaque, the sides of the latter evidently denticulate and 

 ciliate; elytra seriately punctate, interspaces densely, rather strongly, 

 rugosely punctured, the alternate ones with seriate erect -setae. 

 Length 2.7 mm. [Reitter.] 



Described from specimen from Bogota, Colombia. The species 

 occurs also in Europe. 



Material examined. — One specimen from Mr. Reitter, labeled 

 "Styria;" another in the Horn collection, without name, labeled 

 "N. Y.," and with light-green square. 



Representatives of the genus occur throughout the world, M. rugi- 

 collis Walker being recorded from the West Indies, Ceylon, Malay 

 Archipelago, Hawaiian Islands, and Europe. The single specimen 

 in the Horn collection, mentioned above, is, so far as the author is 

 aware, the only record of the genus in the United States, 



