TRIBE VII. - KRIRIIIXINI. 199 



small, oblong; fifth ventral small, the I bird, fourth and fifth 

 united but little longer than the second; tibia"' straight, ungulate 

 near tip, armed with a minute curved spine. 



271 (8540). GRYI-IDIUS EQUISETI Fab., 1798, 403. 



Oblong-oval, robust. Black, above densely clothed with pale gray and 

 piceous-brown scales, the gray ones forming a broad stripe each side of 

 thorax and elytra and covering the declivity of the latter; middle of 

 thorax black, not scaly, antenna?, tibiae and tarsi reddish-brown. Beak 

 longer than head and thorax, very slender, curved, rather coarsely and 

 closely punctate, finely carinate. Thorax subglobose, sides broadly round- 

 ed, apex and base truncate, disc very densely and finely punctate. Elytra 

 broad, subdepressed, humeri rounded, prominent; sides parallel to the 

 declivity, thence strongly converging to apex; stria? fine, obsoletely 

 punctate; intervals broad, flat, the third and fifth elevated behind the 

 middle to form one or two elongate tubercles. Prosternum scaly; meso- 

 and metasterna and abdomen glabrous, densely and coarsely punctate. 

 Length 5 6 mm. 



Orono, Maine, June 15. Batavia and Sport Island, N. Y., 

 June 4 24. "A common European species indigenous in Canada, 

 Kansas, and on the north shore of Lake Superior/' (LcConte.) 

 Eecorded also from Iowa, Washington and Wyoming. 



Y. NOTARIS Germ., 1817. 



Species of moderate size having the front margin of proster- 

 num deeply emarginate ; femora moderately clavate, not toothed ; 

 postocular lobes of thorax distinct and wide; hind tibia? feebly 

 mucronate; apical sutures of second, third and fourth ventral 

 segments very prominent. Two species (formerly placed under 

 occur in the Eastern States. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF NOTARIS. 



a. Surface distinctly but minutely pubescent; thorax densely and coarse- 

 ly punctate; elytral striae with coarse, deep punctures. 



272. PUXCTICOLLIS. 



cm. Surface subglabrous, shining; thorax sparsely punctate; stria? with 

 small, close-set punctures. 273. JETHIOPS. 



272 (8543). NOTARIS I-UNCTICOLI.IS Lee., 1876, 163. 



Oblong-ovate. Black or dark reddish-brown, very sparsely clothed 

 with short, prostrate yellowish hairs, which often form a sutural trans- 

 verse spot behind the middle of elytra. Beak slender, cylindrical, curved, 

 longer than thorax, coarsely punctate. Antennal club as long as the pre- 

 ceding four joints (Fig. 65, a.) Thorax subglobose, as long as wide, sides 

 feebly rounded, disc densely and coarsely punctate. Elytra one-half wider 

 than thorax, humeri rounded, sides parallel to behind the middle, then 

 rapidly converging to the obtuse apex: intervals flat, finely and densely 

 rugose-punctate. Under surface coarsely and densely punctate. Length 

 4.86.5 mm. 



