2oo MEMOIRS ON THE COLEOPTERA 



The male has each elytron obtusely subdentate at the apical 

 margin near the suture. I found a single example of this very 

 striking species in my working-room about a year ago; no foreign 

 material of any kind had been received therein for several years and 

 whence it came is rather mysterious. However, the above de- 

 scription will easily permit of identification. 



Anthrenus acomanus n. sp. Eyes emarginate, the antennae n -jointed; 

 body broad, oblong-oval, densely clothed with elongate-ovoidal, finely 

 strigose scales, mostly grayish-white in color, the integuments black, the 

 elytra feebly rufescent; head very densely cribrate where denuded, the 

 scales white and tawny, the antennae stout, with transverse funicular 

 joints, the compact club broadly oval, with its last joint rather longer than 

 the first two combined; ocellus hyaline, moderately convex; prothorax 

 rather short, with strongly converging and moderately arcuate sides, the 

 base oblique and straight at the sides, the lobe large, nearly a third the 

 total width, obtusely triangular; scales dense, whitish, mingled with 

 tawny, a large median area nearly black; elytra distinctly longer than 

 wide, oblong, very obtuse at apex, the humeral prominences well de- 

 veloped; whitish scales broadly condensed suturally and toward the 

 middle of the sides, but in both cases extremely indefinitely limited, the 

 general surface with a mixture of whitish and tawny scales; pronotal 

 punctures, where exposed, coarse and separated by their own diameters, 

 smaller and sparser medio-basally, rather coarse, deep, close and um- 

 bilicate on the elytra; under surface very convex, densely clothed with 

 uniform grayish scales. Length (cf 9 ) 2.6-3.2 mm.; width i 6-2.0 mm. 

 New Mexico (Jemez Springs), Woodgate. 



The elytral apices are obtusely subangulate in the male. This 

 species is not closely allied to any other known to me. The macu- 

 lation of condensed scales on the elytra is much looser and less de- 

 fined than in any other, but it might be placed near lepidus in the 

 lists; it is much broader and more oblong than that species. The 

 scales of the upper surface are easily removable and it is difficult to 

 find a well preserved specimen. 



Orphilus Erichs. 



Of subnitidus Lee., I now have a large series from Jemez Springs, 

 New Mexico, that display no differences from those that occur in 

 California. There is only a moderate amount of variation in the 

 elytral punctures, which are notably strong and close-set toward 

 base. JEqiialis Csy., described as from the Grand Canon of Ari- 

 zona, I now have also from two different localities in Oregon; it 

 seems to extend along the Sierras to the more northern latitudes; it 



