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closely punctured, the punctuation coarser than that of the prothorax ; legs flavo-testaceous ; fifth ventral 
segment truncate and unimpressed in the male. 
Length 23-23 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Muxico, Teapa (H. H. Smith, Hoge) ; GUATEMALA, Paso Antonio (Champion). 
Four examples, two from the Atlantic and two from the Pacific slope. . Less elongate 
than A. macrocephalus; the head very much shorter; the elytra broader, more rounded 
at the sides, and more finely punctured; the pubescence shorter and much finer. Very 
near A. pusillus, La Ferté, from New Orleans (the type of which I have examined), but 
differing from it in having the head narrower, the antenne longer, and the elytra not 
so coarsely punctured, the punctuation of the head also coarser and less close; also 
closely allied to a Texan insect communicated by M. Sallé (under the name A. pusillus, 
but not agreeing with La Ferté’s type), but with less truncate head and shorter and finer 
pubescence. A. spretus, Lec. (=A. facilis, Casey), much resembles A. lutescens, but 
has a flatter, more truncate, and much more coarsely punctured head, and the sides of 
the thorax not dilated at the base. 
41. Anthicus cervinus. 
Anthicus bifasciatus, Say, Journ. Acad. Phil. v. p. 245'; Complete Writings, ii. p. 309; Haldem. 
Proc. Acad. Phil. i. p. 8304 (nec Rossi) *. 
Anthicus cervinus, La Ferté, Monogr. Anthic. p. 181°; Lec. Proc. Acad. Phil. vi. p. 100°. 
Anthicus terminalis, Lec. in Agass. Lake Superior, p. 230°. 
Anthicus bizonatus, La Ferté, Monogr. Anthic. p. 274°. 
Hab. Nortn America, United States??4, Lake Superior ®, E. Florida ! °—MeExico, 
Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith). 
A female example of an Anthicus received from Western Mexico merely differs from 
La Ferté’s type of A. cervinus and from others of the same species from the United States 
communicated by M. Sallé and Dr. Horn in having the elytra a little broader and less 
parallel : in the absence of further material it is not advisable to separate it from that 
insect. A. cervinus is stated by Leconte 4 to be avery variable species; it has the upper 
surface densely and somewhat coarsely punctured and rather thickly pubescent; the 
head with a smooth central line and without occipital groove. The specimens before 
us are ferruginous or reddish-testaceous in colour; the elytra with a broad transverse 
fascia beyond the middle (not reaching the suture and widening outwardly), and the 
apex piceous or black, these markings connected near the suture and enclosing a spot 
of the ground-colour on each elytron. 
A second example, from Villa Lerdo in Durango (£dége), is perhaps an extreme form 
of the same species. 
