284 MEMOIRS ON THE COLEOPTERA 



(Long Island), Shoemaker. The original type, from \Yillets Point, 



Long Island, is apparently lost pallida Csy. 



Body still stouter, oblong-oval and highly polished throughout in the 

 female; general habitus and coloration almost exactly as in the pre- 

 ceding, but with larger head, much longer antennae and feebler ely- 

 tral striation; head rather more than half as wide as the prothorax, 

 with very prominent eyes; antennae (9) rather stout and colored 

 as in the preceding male, but very much longer, greatly exceeding 

 the thoracic width, the individual joints longer; prothorax as in the 

 preceding but three-fifths wider than long, the rounding sides more 

 converging anteriorly, the foveal punctures smaller, and the outer 

 fovea feebler and less punctiform; elytra two-fifths longer than wide, 

 equal in width to the prothorax, gradually ogival behind, the striae 

 fine, just visibly impressed and very finely punctate, the scutellar 

 short, free and imperfect as in the preceding, the lateral line of fovese 

 not interrupted; intervals much broader and nearly flat. Length 

 (9) 6.0 mm.; width 2.75 mm. New York (Long Island), Shoe- 

 maker politissima n. sp. 



16 Elytra micro-reticulate and alutaceous in the female, polished in 



the male 17 



Elytra smooth and highly polished in both sexes 19 



17 Elytral striae virtually impunctate. Body oblong-suboval, convex, 

 shining, piceous-black, the head and pronotum rufo-piceous, the 

 under surface and legs rather bright rufous; head distinctly more 

 than half as wide as the prothorax, the eyes well developed but only 

 moderately convex, the strioles short, linear and oblique; antennae 

 ferruginous, extending only to the thoracic base in the female; pro- 

 thorax fully three-fifths wider than long, the sides strongly rounded 

 and converging in apical, straighter and parallel in basal, half; basal 

 angles more than right but not evidently blunt; apex broad, rather 

 more than three-fourths as wide as the base, broadly, rather evi- 

 dently sinuate, with the angles moderately blunt; impressions barely 

 traceable; punctures of the foveal region rather numerous and ex- 

 tending more finely entirely across, to almost completely obsolete; 

 elytra barely more than a third longor than wide, scarcely visibly 

 wider than the prothorax, with arcuate sides, gradually strongly 

 arcuato-ogival behind; striae fine, feebly impressed in the female 

 and either completely punctureless or with very feeble and scarcely 

 discoverable though evident punctulation, the scutellar rather long, 

 entire, sometimes not free at tip; lateral series moderately interrup- 

 ted; intervals broadly, feebly convex to nearly flat in the female; 

 tarsi unusually short. Length (9) 5-6 mm.; width 2.3-2.4 mm. 



Texas texana Putz. 



Elytral stria rather strongly, crenately punctate; body more elongate. 18 

 18 Form oblong, parallel, moderately convex, polished throughout in 

 the male, the female elytra subopaque, dark castaneous, the under 

 surface rufous, the legs flavo-rufous; head somew T hat shorter than 

 wide, nearly three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, with moderately 

 prominent eyes; antennae ferruginous, slender, extending slightly 

 behind the thoracic base; prothorax a little less than one-half wider 



