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segment without characteristic sculpture. Inner spur on hind tibia short, 
being less than half the length of the outer spur, which is long and slender. . 
The genitalia are remarkable because of the dissimilarity of the claspers. 
The right clasper is slender and gives an impression of having been 
aborted ; the left clasper is strongly arcuate. The illustrations (Pl. XLIV, 
Fig. 24-27) show the characteristics of the genitalia. : 
Female.—tThe female is unknown. 
Habitat—We have this species from only two localities; from 
Southern Pines, N. C., collected by A. H. Manee, and one specimen, from 
Columbia, S. C., collected by P. Luginbill and A. H. Beyer in 1915. 
PHYLLOPHAGA PARVIDENS Lec., var. HYSTEROPYGA, Nn. var. 
This variety has the general appearance of P. crenulata but is near- 
est related to P. rubiginosa and typical P. parvidens, to which species it 
runs in Horn’s synopsis. The male genitalia are identical with those of 
P. parvidens, and there appears to be no constant difference excepting 
size. This variety is much smaller than any typical parvidens which 
I have seen, being about two thirds the length of that species and not 
more than half the, bulk. Variety hysteropyga has many characters in 
common with P. pygidialis, but a comparison with the type of that 
species shows it to be quite distinct. In the writer’s determinations this 
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variety is designated as new species “j”’. 
Body oblong, very little widest posteriorly, brown, head darker, 
thorax feebly shining, elytra with a slight pruinosity, head and thorax 
with a moderate number of more or less erect yellowish hairs, the elytra 
Genitalia of Phyllophaga parvidens, var. hysteropyga. 
Fic. 7, dorsal view; Fic. 8, right clasper. 
with short fine recumbent hair with a few longer erect hairs near anterior 
end. Clypeus. emarginate but not deeply so, the border narrowly re- 
flexed, surface moderately and rather finely punctate, front slightly more 
densely punctate. Thorax noticeably narrowest at front, the width at 
middle and base subequal, margin crenate:and with moderately long ciliae, 
surface rather sparsely and finely punctate. Elytra densely punctate, 
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