142 MEMOIRS ON THE COLEOPTERA 



Elytra rather abruptly somewhat wider than the prothorax. Somewhat 

 shining black, more opaque in the female; legs piceous; palpi black- 

 ish-brown, testaceous at apex; antennae obscure brown, with the 

 basal joint testaceous; form oblong-oval, rather depressed; head 

 rather small; prothorax subtrapeziform, slightly rounded at the 

 sides, wider than long and almost flat, impunctate, the fovese very 

 feeble, longitudinal; apex rather strongly sinuate; elytra rather short, 

 somewhat strongly sinuate at the apices, the striae fine; punctures 

 of the three series very fine. Length 6.0 mm.; width 2.7 mm. 

 Southern Atlantic states. Apparently rare. [Selena phor us ovalis 

 Dej.] ovalis Dej. 



Elytra not or but very little wider than the prothorax 2 



2 Punctures of the three elytral series notably strong and conspicuous, 

 the upper surface rather more convex than in the following species. 

 Body oblong-oval, rather shining (cf ), not very deep black above, 

 the elytra with slightly greenish lustre, the legs and under surface 

 piceous-black, the epipleura slightly paler; head shore, not quite 

 three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, the eyes well developed and 

 moderately convex; antennae slender, piceo-testaceous, the basal 

 joint paler; prothorax a little more than one-half wider than long, 

 the sides subevenly and not strongly arcuate, feebly converging 

 anteriorly from near the base; apex strongly sinuate, not three-fourths 

 as wide as the rectilinear and very finely margined base, the basal 

 angles right, with their apices rather well defined and only very 

 finely blunt; surface somewhat feebly convex, very finely reflexed 

 at the sides, the margin a little more broadly subdeplanate posteriorly, 

 impunctate, the foveae finely linear, very feeble and impuncate; 

 elytra two-fifths longer than wide, gradually rounded at apex, the 

 sinus short and extremely feeble, vestigial; striae very fine, the scu- 

 tellar extremely faint, moderately short; intervals nearly flat. 

 Length (cf) 5.3 mm.; width 2.2 mm. Florida. [Selenophorus fos- 

 sulatus Dej.] fossulatus Dej. 



Punctures of the three elytral series very fine though always distinct; 

 upper surface rather feebly convex 3 



3 Upper surface rather densely opaculate in both sexes, scarcely more 

 so in the female than in the male. Body unusually elongate, sub- 

 oval, deep black, without trace of metallic coloration, the under 

 surface black, with slightly paler epipleura, the legs pale testaceous 

 throughout; antennae brownish-testaceous, with the basal joint 

 pale, very slender and filiform, extending well behind the thoracic 

 base; palpi testaceous, the last joint blackish with pale apex; head 

 small, barely half as wide as the prothorax, the eyes moderate, 

 prominent, the foveae very minute but distinct; prothorax nearly 

 two-thirds wider than long, the sides subevenly and rather strongly 

 arcuate, converging from near the base, the apex narrow, deeply 

 sinuate, with right and scarcely rounded projecting angles and barely 

 more than two-thirds as wide as the base, which is transverse, just 

 visibly posteriorly oblique for a short distance at the sides and 

 extremely finely margined, the angles right with their tips very 

 nairowly but obviously rounded; surface as in the preceding, 



