RUTELIDiE. 127 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body oblong, black, without any gloss. Head covered with cinereous varioles; nose a little 

 reflexed, rounded with a slight tendency to be obtusangular ; antennas ferruginous : prothorax with 

 a wide rather obsolete dorsal channel ; sides with two impressions, one near the anterior angle, and 

 the other basilar in the disk ; base lobed ; lateral margin fringed with ferruginous bristles : elytra 

 slightly furrowed, interstices with each a series of elevations crowned with brown bristles, the eleva- 

 tions of the alternate series are minute ; anterior tibia? with three acute teeth, they are also serrated 

 at the base. 



b. Phyllophaga. Kirb. 

 a. Sternucha. Kirb. 



Family RUTELID^. Rutelidans? 



LXVIII. Genus PELIDNOTA. Mac L. 



(177) 1. Pelidnota punctata. Dotted Pelidnota. 



Pelidnota punctata. Mac L. Hor. Ent. i, 158. 



Ratela punctata. Lat. Gen. ii, 106. 



Melolontha punctata. Fab. Syst. Ent. 33, 8 ; Syst. Eleuth. ii, 1 66, 28. Oliv. Ent. i, 5, 22, 18, t. i, /. 6. Herbst. Ins. 



iii, 69, 16, t. xxiii, /. 6. Iliig. Mag. iv, 78, 28. 

 Scarabceus punctatus. Linn. Mils. L. U. 23, 21 ; Syst. Nat. ii, 557, 76. Drury. Ins. i, 75, t. xxxiv, /. 5. Voet. Col. i, 



45, 65, t. viii, /. 65. Mull. Linn. Nat. v. 87, 76. 



Onorn. Nat. vi, 937. Gronov. Zooph. 146, 438. 



Length of the body 12J lines. 



Taken by Dr. Bigsby in Canada, near Lake St. Clair. Found also in Virginia, 

 Carolina, Maryland, and New York. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body very minutely punctured, glossy, black, underneath a little bronzed, above luteous. Head 

 black at the base, with the blackness bilobed; punctures of the nose confluent; antennas luteous; 

 palpi black: prothorax, as well as the head, darker than the elytra; sides confluently punctured, a 

 round blackish spot on each side near the lateral margin : scutellum black, a little bronzed, with a 

 basilar luteous spot : elytra with three distant black-brown spots or dots, the first and last oblong, 

 the middle one round ; breast, and base of the abdomen, hairy with long hairs : legs black, a little 

 bronzed ; cubit tridentate. 



3 The Rutelidtz exhibit the vertical presternum of the Dynastidce, which is wanting in the Anoplognathid.ee, I therefore 

 consider them, with Latreille, as more immediately connected with the former family, and have placed them accordingly. 



