MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEW SPECIES 365 



broadly and loosely aggregated sublaterally, also very narrowly along 

 the middle toward apex and base; elytra much wider than the prothorax 

 and almost five times as long but much less than four times as long as 

 wide, subparallel, the apices narrowly sinuate and bidentate; surface 

 rather closely punctate, finely apically, rather coarsely basally, the coarse 

 yellowish vestiture slightly more close-set in irregular and ill-defined 

 areas; last ventral shorter and more rounded than in the preceding; legs 

 slender. Length (c?) 10.0 mm.; width 2.2 mm. Massachusetts (Bed- 

 ford), Frost. 



This species is not very closely allied to any other, being of very 

 small size and much more abbreviated o.utline ; it may be placed at 

 the end of the genus. The head and prothorax are relatively smaller 

 than usual. 



Anoplium laterale n. sp. Form, coloration and lustre very much 

 as in mcestum but with larger and relatively much broader prothorax, 

 red-brown throughout, the legs and antennae slightly paler, the pubescence 

 short, sparse and even throughout. Male with the head larger than in 

 mcestum, similarly closely and strongly punctate, the antennae a third 

 longer than the body, rather thick and strongly sculptured basally, the 

 joints cylindric, not flattened and rugose internally as in Hypermallus, 

 the spines very short; third joint longer than the fourth but not quite as 

 long as the fifth ; prothorax differing greatly, slightly shorter than wide, the 

 sides broadly angulate just behind the middle, thence straight and feebly 

 converging nearly to the apex and more converging and subsinuate to 

 the base; surface rather coarsely, closely punctate, the median line nar- 

 rowly smooth and irregularly punctured except apically; elytra slightly 

 wider than the prothorax, less than three times as long as wide, the sides 

 rounding in apical third, the apices obliquely truncate, with obtuse and 

 blunt angles; punctures very coarse and rather close-set, small apically. 

 Female with the antennae almost as long as the body, more filiform, the 

 prothorax subevenly rounded at the sides and still more coarsely punctate. 

 Length (cf 9 ) 12.0-14.0 mm.; width 3.5-4.0 mm. Texas. Three 

 examples. 



To be recognized readily by the stout form, with much broader 

 anterior parts than in mcestum and by other characters given above; 

 the thoracic punctures in the male of that species are very much 

 finer and denser than in the male of laterale and the sides are sub- 

 evenly rounded in both sexes. 



Anoplium pinorum n. sp. Smaller and narrower than mcestum and 

 darker brown in color, the legs and antennae dark rufous; vestiture of 

 rather coarse hairs notably sparse, even; head coarsely and closely but 

 not confluently punctate; antennae (cf) slender, but feebly thickened 

 basally and with sparse strong punctures, fully a third longer than the 

 body, with rather long bristling hairs and very short spines, the joints 

 proportioned nearly as in the preceding; prothorax slightly shorter than 



