READING PUBLIC MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY

LAWRENCE S. DILLON AND ELIZABETH S. DILLON
l\hLE. Elongate-ovate, robust, whcylindrical, elytra subconvex; picC()us, clytra
dark brown; head, pronotull, scutellum, and basal fifth of elytm fulvous pubecent.
Head, pronotum, and remainder of elytra with grayish-brown pubescence as follows:
head with four indistinct vittae, one either side of middle from occiput to between
antennal tubercles, widest basally and converging at vertex, one behind lower lobe
(nearly at vertex) ; front somewhat variegated with white and fulvous; pronotum
with nn indistinct viUa either side of middle, widest at base :md converging apically ;
scutellum with a broad vitta medially ; apical four-fifths of olytra slightly variegated
with white pubesccncc. Beneath fuscous, sterna laterally broadly, densely, fulvons
pubescent; metepisterna nearly entirely grayish-brown, sterna medially gray;
abdomen broadly fulvous vittate laterally, on fifth sternite vitta much reduced,
medially all sternites gray, with grayish-brown pubecence interspersed. Legs
piceous or dark reddish-brown ; {emom with sides and dorsnl surface grayish­
brown pubescent, .... entral surface gray touched with fulvous; apically, medially, and
basally tibiae grayish-brown pubescent, banded indistinctly at middle with gray;
tarsi clothed wit.h gray, claw segment piceous, sparsely gray pubescent. Antennae
with scape piceous, fulvous pubescent, just before apex with a grayish-brown
macula; remaining segments dark reddish-brown, from fourth segment basal thirds
paler reddish-brown and there gray pubescent, remainder of segments grayish­
brown; third segment with basill half f\llvOllS pubescent, remaining half grayish­
brown.
Head above minutely alutaeeou, with a median impreS3cd line from occiput
to near epistoma ; front elongate, narrowed between eyes, disk minutely alutaceous,
all over with close-set, coarse, very shallow punctures ; genac elongate, pubescent,
very finely, densely punctate, with coarse, scattered punctures ; eye with lower
lobe oblong, feebly ovate, nearly equal in size to genae; antennal tubercles promi­
nent, well separated, vcry obtusely produced. Pronotulll transverse, base about
one-third wider than apex; sides straight; basal and npical sulcus shallow, basal
one oblique at sictes ; disk with five tubercles, median onc elongate, more baal,
two either side of median, more apical, inncr one elongate, outer one more pointed.
Scutellum very transverse; sides brolldly arcuate, npex broadly rounded, feebly
notched at middle. Elytra with sides nearly st.r:light, feebly attenuate to apices
wmch are each rounded ; extreme base smoot.h, at middle each elytron with two
rows (internal one near scutellum) of punctate granules, with several granules in
each row, the outer row continue« onto an arcuate gibbosit.y, which is rather
broad and moderately elevated, surface of basal fourth (after smoot.h portion)
sparsely granUlate-punctate, t.hence coarsely, spar.3ely punctate to middle, mut:h
more finely nnd obsoletely so apically; humeri prominent, anterior margin feebly
arcuate, angle only obtusely rounded, not tubercled, a short, very feeble carina
extending posteriorly from angle. Prosternum slightly widened medially betwecn
procoxae; mesosternal process deeply emarginate :It apex; fifth sternite two times
length of fourth, at apex sub truncate, heavily fringed entire width find broadly
triangularly impressed medially. Procoxae globo;e, with n smnll, rounded tubercle;
profemora nearly parallel on basal third then only very gradually clavate, feebly
rugose on basal third of ventral side; remaining femora. normal; metatibille moder­
ately dilated on apical half; prohm:i dilated. Antennae as long or slightly longer
than bociy, sC:lpe not quite attl1ining the middle of pronotum, slender, capitate,
densely, finely punctate, on basill h!llf with scnttered, conrse punctures; third seg­
ment slender, sinuate, one-sixth longer than scape, remaining segments gradually