March 20, 1914 
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Vol. XXVII, pp. 69-70 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF CORYMBITES 
FROM TFIE SONORAN ZONE OF 
WASHINGTON STATE. 
(CoL]*:OPTERA ; ElATERIDyE.) 
BY .T. A. HYSLOP. 
The following new species was reared in the course of 
economic wireworm investigations in the Pacific Northwest. 
Corymbites noxius sp. nov. 
(leaeral form moderately elongate. Color black with very obscurely 
brown to black legs. Moderately pilose. Head slightly defiexed, width 
including eyes not equal to one half width of ])rothorax; front flat, 
strongly and rlensely punctate, anterior margin interrupted at middle so 
that front is conihient with that part of the head which gives attachment 
to the labrum; antennae very short, not as long as the pronotum, very 
strongly serrate beyond third joint, third joint subconical and more 
slender than fourth, third longer than fourth in female, equal to fourth in 
male. Prothorax slightly longer than broad; sides i)aralle], strongly bent 
inward anhutorly; pronotum convex with median channel indistinct 
anteriorly, strongly and continently punctate on sides, punctuations 
b(‘Coniing smaller as they ai)proach the disc, disc of pronotum without 
punctures or very hnely and sparsely punctulate, very glistening, posterior 
angles of the |)r<)notuni divergent and strongly carinate. Prosternal 
stitures straight. Fdytra two and one half times as long as the jn'othorax, 
sides straight and parallel, about same width as the i)ronotum, strongly 
punctate-striate, interstic(!S slightly rounded and very obscurely punctu¬ 
late. Length 10 to Ih mm. 
Type locality.—iioxiiu, Washington. 
Type. —No. lS,L’(iS, U. S. National IMuseum. 
Paratyjies .—Five other specimens, three from ty])e locality and two 
from Wilbur, Washington. 
i;;—Piioc. Rioi,. Soc. W.vsH., Voi.. XXVII, 1914. 
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