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Middle and Southern States, rare. The pygidium of the female is subtriangular 

 but not conoidal ; the punctures are more sparse towards the apex ; the sides of the 

 abdomen are punctured, and the penultimate segment has a strongly transverse im- 

 pression at the middle. The male is unknown to me, but the penultimate ventral 

 segment is described by Burmeister as having no transverse elevation, but a deep 

 impression. 



Gkoup IX. 



The group contains a number of large oblong species having the upper surface 

 pubescent. The head is moderate in size, with the clypeus emarginate, not broadly 

 margined ; the thorax is broadest at the middle, and more or less narrowed towards 

 the base. The antennae are 10-jointed ; the breast is clothed with hair. The ungues 

 are toothed at the middle, but the tooth is as long as the apical portion, so that the 

 form appears almost cleft. The spurs of the posterior tibise are straight, and the 

 inner one is fixed in the male ; the penultimate ventral segment of the male is trans- 

 versely impressed, while the last joint is broadly foveate. 



35. L. ill cis , glauco-fusca, subpi uinosa, supra pube brevi subdepressa cinerea vestita, thorace ccmfluenter 

 grosse puuctato, medio subcarinato, elytris dense rugulosis et punctulatis, costis dorsalibus nullis, inar- 

 gine longe fimbvialo, pectore breviter villoso. Long. -88 — 1*0. 



Melolontlia ilicis Kuoch, Neue Beytr. 75, tab. 1, fig. 28. 



Melolontha porcina Heutz, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 3 ; 253., tab. 2, fig. 4. 



Ancylonycha ilicis Blanch. Cat. Col. Mus. Paris, 1, 133; (nee. Burm. Lamell. 2, 2d, 326.) 



Ancylonydia fimbriate/, Burm. ibid. 



Common in the Middle and Southern States ; according to the maturity of the 

 specimen the color varies from blackish fuscous to reddish brown, but the glaucous 

 lustre is always distinct in well preserved specimens, and the legs are ferruginous. In 

 the male the club of the antennas is as long as the remaining portion; the hair above 

 is finer and less dense, but the hair on the breast is a little longer than in the female ; 

 the penultimate ventral segment is deeply transversely impressed, and the last joint 

 marked with a broad round impression. 



The present species agrees with the figure and description of Knoch, and is also found 

 as the type in Dr. Melsheimer's collection. That described by Burmeister is some- 

 thing different, and has not yet fallen under my notice : it differs by the finer and 

 more depressed pubescence ; by the hair on the breast being scarcely longer (even in the 

 male) than that on the abdomen, and by the pygidium being coarsely punctured with 

 a smooth middle space ; in the present species the punctures are scattered, gradually 

 less numerous towards the tip. 



36. L. ciliata, fusca, (abdominis lateribus solis pruinosa), pube subeiecti fulva brevi dense vestita, 

 thorace confluenter grosse punctato, subcarinato, elytris dense rugulosis et punctulatis, subcostatis, pilis 

 longioribus intermixtis prsecipue in vittis tribus positis, margine longe fimbriato, pectore breviter piloso. 



Long. 1-0. 



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