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MELOLONTHA Fabr. 



M. INTEGRA. — Reddish-broTvu, hairy ; clypeus entire. 



Inhabits Mexico. [181] 



Body reddish-brown, hairy on every part: head with rather 

 large dense punctures; tip of the clypeus obtusely rounded; thorax 

 with the hair equal, reflected : scutol with rather short hair: ely- 

 tra destitute of elevated lines; hair longer near the base: post- 

 pectus with long hair : feet with sparse hair. 



Length less than three-fourths of an inch. 



Distinguishable from all the other known North American 

 species by its rounded clypeus combined with its imiversal hairy 

 vesture and magnitude. 



ANOMALA Meg. 



1. A. GEMELLA. — Yellowish-white, varied with blackish, ely- 

 tra with geminate striiO. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



Body pale, varied with blackish : head punctured, cupreous : 

 thorax with minute, distant punctures ; edge blackish-cupreous ; 

 disk blackish; this color reaches the middle of the anterior mar- 

 gin, is sinuate on the sides and profoundly so behind ; a blackish 

 dot on the middle of the lateral submargin : scutel piceous : ely- 

 tra with rather distant, large and blackish punctures; three 

 double series of impressed punctures similar to the others, but 

 approximate, and a single subsutural series ; edge all around 

 blackish, a humeral spot and middle of the exterior margin 

 blackish. 



Length half an inch. 



In some respects resembles A. imi/asciahis nob., but it is 

 larger, with a shorter head, and is very different by other 

 characters. 



2. A. CINCTA. — Bluish-green, elytra pale brownish. 

 Inhabits Mexico. [182] 

 Head cupreous, punctured : thorax slightly punctured, bluish- 

 green : scutel bluish-green, punctured : elytra pale brownish, or 

 a little testaceous, with punctured striae and a broad line of ir- 



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