MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEW SPECIES 377 



Also a member of the viridulus series but much smaller and less 

 inflated, differing greatly, also, in coloration and in the less elongate 

 clypeus and prothorax. This form would certainly appear to be 

 specific in value rather than subspecific. 



TENEBRIONID^: 



The following Blapstinus has been undescribed in my cabinet for 

 some years, no available opportunity having occurred to define it 

 until now: 



Blapstinus pinorum n. sp. Black and shining, the legs and antennae 

 black; head transversely rounded, three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, 

 finely, closely punctate; antennae slender, gradually broadened apically, 

 shorter than the head and prothorax, the latter transverse, feebly sinuato- 

 truncate at apex, with broadly rounded sides, finely, deeply and closely 

 punctate, more closely and strongly toward the sides; elytra short, 

 convex, not one-half longer than wide, rounding behind in apical two- 

 fifths, shining, finely striate, the striae closely punctate, finely suturad, 

 more strongly laterad, the intervals feebly convex, confusedly punctate 

 throughout, the punctures half the size of those of the striae; legs slender, 

 the hind tarsi short. Length 4.0 mm.; width 1.75 mm. North Carolina 

 (Southern Pines), Manee. 



Smaller, more convex and more abbreviated than mcestus, with 

 smaller and thinner antennae, much less sinuate apex of the pro- 

 thorax and coarser interstitial punctures of the elytra. 



Aconobius densus n. sp. Very narrowly elongate-oval and strongly 

 convex, densely opaque, black, the legs blackish-piceous; vestiture close, 

 short and coarse, grayish-fulvous, head fully four-fifths as wide as the 

 prothorax, finely, densely punctate and gray-pubescent, wider than long, 

 the antennae long and heavy, extending well onto the elytra, black, the 

 three outer joints slightly enlarged, the last narrower than the tenth, 

 the third nearly as long as the next two; prothorax but little wider than 

 long, the sides parallel, broadly and evenly arcuate, the apex and base 

 subequally and evenly, feebly arcuate from side to side, the apical angles 

 slightly obtuse but sharply marked; surface extremely densely punctate 

 throughout, the short fringe along each side composed of close-set erect 

 coarse hairs; scutellum small, triangular; elytra elongate-oval, three- 

 fourths longer than wide, at the middle a third wider than the prothorax, 

 coarsely, feebly striate, the striae coarsely and closely punctate, the 

 intervals with minute sparse confused punctures, the vestiture short and 

 stiff; legs moderately long. Length 4.5 mm.; width 1.5 mm. New 

 Mexico (Deming), Wickham. 



Differs greatly from laciniatus Csy., in its very narrowly oval form, 

 more convex surface, less inflated antennae, more oval and convex 

 elytra and blackish legs. 



