NORTH AMERICAN GEOTRUPINAE — ^HOWDEN 235 



ILLINOIS: 10 males, 10 females. Mason City, north Illinois, Topeka; (13) 



October. 

 INDIANA: 4 males, 4 females. Michigan City, Miller, Mineral Springs, Ogden 



Dunes (on Lake Michigan), Pine; (2) April, (2) May, (2) September (1) October. 

 IOWA: 2 males, 3 females. Columbus Junction, Sergeant Bluff; (2) September. 

 KANSAS: 20 males, 22 females. Douglas County, Lawrence, Medora, Mount 



Hope, Roybury (Reno County), Salina, Topeka, Wichita; (1) April, (3) May, 



(2) June, (15) September, (1) October, (2) November. 

 LOUISIANA: 7 males, 3 females. Leesville, Natchitoches; (8) September, 



(1) October. 

 MICHIGAN: 4 males, 3 females. George Reserve (Livingston County), Portage 



Lake (Washtenaw County); (1) May, (1) September, (4) October. 

 MISSOURI: 8 males, 5 females. Columbia, Galloway, Kimmswick (Jefferson 



County), Maiden, New Hartford, St. Louis; (1) March, (1) April, (1) Septem- 

 ber, (5) October, (1) November. 

 NEBRASKA: 5 males, 8 females. Bennet, Frenchman River, Hyannis (Grant 



County), Malcolm, Sand Hills Nebraska National Forest (Thomas County); 



(1) April, (1) June, (1) July, (4) October. 



OHIO: 2 males, 2 females. Williams County; (4) September. 

 OKLAHOMA: 7 males, 5 females. Caddo County, Cleveland County, Fort Sill 

 Military Reservation, Noble, Payne County, Tulsa; (1) March, (3) April, 



(2) September, (3) October, (1) December. 



SOUTH DAKOTA: 5 males, 2 females. Martin; (1) August, (6) September. 

 TEXAS: 36 males, 29 females. Abilene, Austin, Brazos County, Comfort, Dallas, 



Dallas County, Harris County, Kingsville, Mount Hope, Tyler; (1) March, 



(1) May, (1) June, (1) November. 

 WISCONSIN: 2 females. No data. 



Geotrupes ulkei Blanchard 



Geotrupes ulkei Blanchard, 1888, pp. 106-107 (lectotype, here designated, male, 

 Virginia, labeled as type, Ulke collection in CM). — Loding, 1935, p. 108. — 

 Bradley, 1944, p. 112.— Ritcher, 1947, p. 8. 



Length 10 to 12 mm., greatest width 7 to 8 mm. 



Color of dorsum dark brown with margins of thorax and elytra 

 tinged with blue or purple. Ventral surface and legs brown to black. 

 Antenna and antennal club dark brown, differing little in color from 

 rest of ventral surface. Clypeus coarsely, deeply punctured; vertex 

 and eye can thus with scattered coarse punctures. The three tubercles 

 on the head extremely indistinct. An indistinct indented line runs 

 from the middle of the vertex forward to the clypeus, where it becomes 

 sharply delimited, bifurcates running along the posterior margin of 

 the clypeus. Clypeus margined, more arcuate laterally. Poorly 

 margined eye canthus forms a moderately obtuse angle with the clypeal 

 edge, sides of eye canthi arcuate anteriorly, slightly so posteriorly, 

 almost parallel. Pronotum moderately convex, margined anteriorly 

 and laterally. The posterior margin broadly broken laterally. 

 Poorly defined coarse punctures scattered unevenly over pronotum, 

 slightly more pronounced laterally and in slightly indented median 



