﻿MELOLONTHIDiE 
  OF 
  THE 
  UNITED 
  STATES. 
  2S7 
  

  

  11. 
  IT. 
  m 
  u 
  c 
  o 
  r 
  e 
  a 
  , 
  «longata, 
  nigra, 
  subtus 
  et 
  pygidio 
  sordide 
  albo-squamosa, 
  supra 
  virescente-ochreo-squa- 
  

   mosa, 
  capite 
  vix 
  squamoso 
  thoraceque 
  baud 
  dense 
  longe 
  pilosis, 
  boc 
  latitudiue 
  baud 
  breviore, 
  antice 
  

   angustiore, 
  lateribus 
  fortius 
  angulatis, 
  oonvexiusculo, 
  elytris 
  fcboraee 
  baud 
  JatinriJnis, 
  tibfis 
  anticis 
  liidcn- 
  

  

  tatis, 
  uuguibus 
  auterioribus 
  fissis, 
  postico 
  Long. 
  -23. 
  

  

  Burmeister, 
  Laiuell. 
  2, 
  193; 
  ibid. 
  2, 
  2nd, 
  486, 
  (synon. 
  exclusa). 
  

   Melolontha 
  mxcorea 
  Genu. 
  Ins. 
  Nov. 
  129. 
  

  

  Southern 
  States. 
  Readily 
  known 
  by 
  the 
  more 
  elongate 
  and 
  parallel 
  form. 
  The 
  

   posterior 
  tarsi 
  are 
  broken, 
  so 
  that 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  know 
  whether 
  the 
  claw 
  is 
  simple 
  or 
  bifid. 
  

   I 
  have 
  excluded 
  II. 
  h 
  e 
  1 
  v 
  o 
  1 
  a, 
  as 
  a 
  synonym, 
  since 
  the 
  description 
  mentions 
  linear 
  

   scales 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  ; 
  it 
  seems 
  to 
  me 
  rather 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  variety 
  of 
  H. 
  trifasciata 
  with 
  

   almost 
  uniformly 
  colored 
  elytra, 
  and 
  this 
  view 
  accords 
  with 
  the 
  measurements 
  given. 
  

  

  II. 
  monticola, 
  Mels. 
  Proc. 
  Acad. 
  Nat. 
  Sc. 
  Phila. 
  2, 
  141, 
  I 
  bave 
  failed 
  to 
  identify. 
  The 
  dimen- 
  

   sions 
  given 
  are 
  3i 
  lines 
  by 
  1J-, 
  wbieb 
  are 
  the 
  proportions 
  of 
  H. 
  mucorea. 
  Prom 
  notes 
  sent 
  me 
  by 
  Dr. 
  

   Melsheimer, 
  it 
  would 
  seem 
  to 
  differ 
  from 
  both 
  that 
  species 
  and 
  H. 
  modesta. 
  The 
  color 
  is 
  brownish 
  testa- 
  

   ceous, 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  are 
  darker, 
  the 
  latter 
  clothed 
  with 
  short 
  rufous 
  hairs 
  and 
  sprinkled 
  towards 
  the 
  

   sides 
  with 
  whitish 
  scales, 
  ' 
  the 
  sides 
  are 
  somewhat 
  dilated 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle, 
  slightly 
  incurved 
  posteriorly, 
  sub- 
  

   rectilinear 
  from 
  its 
  widest 
  portion 
  to 
  the 
  tip; 
  elytra 
  hardly 
  wider 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  than 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  thorax', 
  more 
  

   than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  thorax, 
  clothed 
  with 
  short 
  rufous 
  hairs, 
  two 
  obsolete 
  longitudinal 
  raised 
  lines 
  near 
  

   the 
  middle, 
  pygidium 
  clothed 
  like 
  the 
  elytra, 
  venter 
  covered 
  with 
  small 
  whitish 
  scaly 
  hairs. 
  ' 
  Anterior 
  

   tibia? 
  bidentate 
  ; 
  inner 
  middle 
  claw 
  less 
  than 
  one 
  half 
  the 
  size 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  one 
  : 
  posterior 
  claw 
  entire.' 
  

   Pennsylvania, 
  in 
  Adams 
  County. 
  

  

  Should 
  the 
  last 
  character 
  be 
  erroneous, 
  it 
  might 
  be 
  referred 
  to 
  the 
  light 
  colored 
  

   specimens 
  mentioned 
  under 
  H. 
  modesta. 
  

  

  10. 
  GLAPHYRI. 
  

  

  A 
  group 
  placed 
  by 
  Eriehsou 
  among 
  the 
  laparostict 
  Scarabaeid*, 
  but 
  in 
  which, 
  as 
  

   Burmeister 
  bus 
  shewn, 
  the 
  position 
  of 
  the 
  abdominal 
  stigmata 
  ceases 
  to 
  be 
  of 
  value 
  

   as 
  a 
  primary 
  character. 
  As 
  a 
  group 
  of 
  Melolonthidae, 
  this 
  may 
  be 
  readily 
  recognized 
  

   by 
  the 
  labrum 
  being 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  plane 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  projecting 
  

   mandibles, 
  the 
  wide 
  parapleurse, 
  and 
  the 
  not 
  connate 
  six-jointed 
  abdomen. 
  The 
  

   ungues 
  are 
  slender, 
  equal 
  and 
  diverging. 
  The 
  only 
  genus 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

   is 
  Lichnanthe, 
  which 
  differs 
  from 
  Amphicoma 
  chiefly 
  by 
  the 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  

   labrum. 
  

  

  Liciixaxthe 
  Bnrm. 
  

   1. 
  L. 
  v 
  u 
  1 
  pi 
  n 
  a 
  . 
  nigra, 
  thoraee, 
  seutello, 
  pygidio 
  pectoreque 
  fulvo 
  lougissime 
  pilosis, 
  elytris 
  auieo-testaceis 
  

   punctatis, 
  breviter 
  nigro-pubescentibus, 
  postice 
  valde 
  dehisceotibus. 
  Long. 
  -52 
  — 
  -07. 
  

   Burmeister, 
  Lamell. 
  2, 
  27. 
  

   Amphicoma 
  vuJpinn 
  Hentz, 
  Journ. 
  Acad. 
  Nat. 
  Si-. 
  Phila. 
  •">, 
  tub. 
  13, 
  fia. 
  3. 
  

  

  Massachusetts 
  and 
  New 
  Hampshire 
  ; 
  Dr. 
  T. 
  W. 
  Harris. 
  The 
  female 
  is 
  much 
  less 
  

   hairy, 
  and 
  has 
  the 
  club 
  of 
  the 
  antenna 
  1 
  shorter 
  and 
  obtuse. 
  The 
  elytra 
  diverge 
  very 
  

   strongly 
  along 
  the 
  suture, 
  and 
  are 
  obtusely 
  rounded 
  at 
  tip. 
  

  

  