NEARCTIC BEETLES MELIGETHES — EASTON 



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In saevus LeConte the aedeagus (fig. 78,(j-j) is somewhat elongate, 

 its median lobe nearly parallel-sided and abruptly narrowed and 

 bluntly pointed at the extreme apex, and its paramere of the usual 

 bilobed form having a narrow parallel-sided central excision with 

 simple lobes rounded and narrowed on the outer side. The ovipositor 

 (fig. 78,/) is elongate narrow and sharply pointed, and exhibits the 

 ventral spicule noted under M. nigrescens Stephens and A/, canadensis. 



The recorded distribution of M. saevus covers a wide area including 

 several of the Central States of the United States, to which the 

 Canadian province of Manitoba may now be added on the strength 

 of a single example in the collection of the California Academy of 

 Sciences taken by N. Criddle at Aweme on June 11, 1923. Specimens 



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Figure 78. — a-e, Meligeihes nigrescens Stephens: a, dorsal view of median lobe of aedeagus; 

 b, lateral view of same; c, dorsal view of tegmen of aedeagus; d, lateral view of same; e, 

 ventral view of ovipositor. /-/, M. saevus LeConte:/, ventral view of ovipositor; g, dorsal 

 view of median lobe of aedeagus; h, lateral view of same; i, dorsal view of tegmen of 

 aedeagus; /, lateral view of same. Scale A {a-d), 0.2 mm.; scale B {e-j), 0.25 mm. 



