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Grub.—The larva is characteristic of the genus. Figure 1, showing 
the arrangement of the two rows of spines and surrounding hairs and 
spines on the under side of the last abdominal segment, suffices for 
description. 
Fic. 1, Under side of anal segment of larva 
of Phyllophaga perlonga, n. sp. 
Habitat—We have this species represented by five or six hundred 
specimens collected by Prof. R. W. Harned and his assistants, and 
students, at Agricultural College, Miss., March 19 to June 21, with 
isolated records for July and August, the period of greatest abundance 
being March and April. We have seen specimens from Greenville, 
Shubuta, Starkville, and West King Junction, Miss., and from Gum 
Springs, Clark Co., Ark., all of which were also collected by Professor 
Harned and his assistants. This species was collected at Clarksville, 
Tenn., from April 16 to May 25 in 1917 by Dr. Henry Fox, and from 
April 2 to May 8 in 1918 by Fox and Max Kisliuk, and at Knoxville, 
Tenn., May 8 to 10, 1916, by G. G. Ainslie and C. C. Hill. In most cases 
the beetles were collected at lights, but a few, collected at Agricultural 
College, were taken on pecan, elm, and hickory, and several at Clarksville 
were found on elm and honey locust. 
PHYLLOPHAGA FRATERNA Harr., var. MISSISSIPPIENSIS, nN. var. 
The above variety belongs to the fusca group according to Horn’s 
synopsis. It has been designated in the writer’s determinations as new 
species “‘b”. 
About the size of the largest specimens of P. fraterna, varying in 
length from 18 to 21 mm. and averaging 20 mm., rufocastaneous to piceous, 
the darker forms predominating, only moderately robust, shining. Clypeus 
acutely, moderately deeply emarginate, border moderately reflexed, dense- 
ly punctate, front similarly punctate. Thorax apparently widest at middle, 
obtusely angulate, margin indistinctly crenate, the punctures only moder- 
ately dense and sometimes slightly irregularly placed. Elytra with incon- 
