Metachroma carolinense Blake 1970

Metachroma carolinense

DESCRIPTION.—About 4.3 mm in length, elongate oblong oval, shining, head and prothorax reddish brown, elytra, legs, and undersurface pale yellow-brown; four small dark spots across pronotum, deep brown sutural edges widened below scutellum with a median spot on each elytron opposite and another submarginal one in same line, also another median spot near apex, on first abdominal segment a median dark area, pronotum finely punctate, elytra with fine striate punctures vanishing at apex.

Head with interocular space half width of head, finely punctate over occiput and deep reddish brown, paler on front, jaws piceous, a median frontal depression but no sulcus dividing front from clypeus, clypeus with sparse, fine punctures, anterior margin over labrum widely and shallowly emarginate. Antennae pale yellow brown. Prothorax about a third as long as elytra and not as wide, moderately convex with rounded sides and small tooth at each angle, somewhat alutaceous and finely and densely punctate with a median linear impunctate area; four deeper brown, rather small spots across disc. Scutellum pale with piceous edging. Elytra with prominent humeri, a deep intrahumeral sulcus and transverse depression below basal umbones, punctures near base deeply impressed forming short costae of intervals, but over umbones punctures fine and not impressed, in transverse depression they become enlarged, gradually diminishing so at apex they vanish; pale yellow brown with deep reddish brown sutural edges, this darker color widening below scutellum at transverse depression, and a dark median spot opposite the widening on each side, and a trace of a dark spot on margin in same row, another median spot near apex of each elytron. Body beneath and legs pale but deepening to reddish brown over prosternum and metasternum and middle of first abdominal segment. Femora with minute tooth. Claws with long tooth. Length, 4.3 mm; width, 2.2 mm.

TYPE.—Female, USNM 70685.

TYPE-LOCALITY.—Eighteen miles north of Charleston, South Carolina (E. A. Chapin, collector).

Metachroma carolinense is a species of leaf beetle. It is found in the United States.