[March 1884. BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC. VOL. VL. 111 
6. L. sola. Testaceous; elytra with cCeep impunctured strize, a common 
sutural band narrower near the middle, not reaching the apex, to which 
it is contiguous on each side, with a submarginal band which tapers to— 
wards the humerus. 
Length hardly a quarter of an inch. 
Inhabits Massachusetts, 
This insect is quite distinct from L. v#ata, which is larger and differs 
from this in many respects. I cannot see that the interstice between the 
black bands has ever been white, as no trace remains of that colour as in 
L. wittata, The body and feet are testaceous; the head bordering on the 
rufous; the antennz are dusky with paler base. The interstitial lines on 
the elytra are convex, which is not the case with L. w/fa/a. 
[This is Dianchomena scapularis Dej. | 
MELOLONTHA, : 
7. M. porcina. Densely covered with short yellow hair; clypeus emar- 
ginate; head piceous or black with a few hairs; antennz and legs ferrugi- 
nous, thorax punctured, very hairy, with a longitudinal black line formed 
by the absence of hair; elytra castaneous, pubescent. 
Length little more than one inch. 
Inhabits Massachusetts. 
This must be a rare insect, as I never saw but one specimen, and it 
was new to my friend Dr. Harris; the head and thorax are piceous or 
blackish, but the thorax is covered with so much yellow hair, that it gives 
it a pale greenish appearance. ‘The hair which covers the insect is short 
except on the margin of the elytra and postpectus, where it is long. 
[This is M. z/zczs Knoch, ] 
8. M. vartolosa. Covered with short white hair; clypeus subquadrate: 
broader at tip, entire, ferruginous; antennz feruginous, clava very long, 
seven laminz; thorax blackish with three obsolete longitudinal impressed 
lines obsoletely marked [25'7] with white hair; elytra dark castaneous, 
with suture, humeral line, and irregular spots, and the disk white; post 
pectus with thick long yellow hair. 
Length very little smaller than the preceding. 
Inhabits Massachusetts. 
This cannot be referred to Me/olontha 10-linea/a of Mr. Say, which has 
its clypeus emarginate, and differs from it in other respects; both are 
in somewhat related to M. fullo of Europe. I never saw put 2 specimens, 
[It is Polyphylla variolosa Hentz. ] 
