PELIDNOTA PUNCTATA. Testacea, elytrorum singulo punctis tribus fuscis
distantibus. (Long. Corp. fere 1 unc.)
SYN. Scarabæus Punctatus, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 1. II. _p._ 557. 76.
Melolontha P. _Fabricius Syst. El._ II. _p._ 166. 28. _Olivier Ent._ 1.
5. _p._ 22. _t._ 1. _f._ 6. a. b. _Herbst. Col._ III. _p._ 69. 16. _t._
23. _f._ 6.
HABITAT: New York, Virginia, Maryland, Antigua.
Head brown orange; but round the eyes (which are black) and next the
thorax of a shining brassy green. Thorax and elytra brown orange, and
faintly margined; the former with two small black spots, and the latter
with three on each side, one close to the thorax, another near the corner
of the wing-cases, and the third in the middle. Scutellum shining bright
green. Abdomen and legs greenish black. Tibiæ spinose and denticulated,
especially at the tips; the three middle articulations of the tarsi are
also furnished with spines.