TIM BE III. DUVOI'IITHOUIXI. 523 



it tips; prosternum sharply pointed behind, emarginate in front; 

 front coxse contiguous, middle cox;e moderately, the hind ones 

 very widely separated; first and second ventral segments united 

 without a trace of suture, third and fourth very narrow, elevated, 

 fifth rather long, rounded at tip; pygidimn completely concealed; 

 femora, stout, slightly curved, the front ones very shining; tibiae 

 robust, terminating in a sharp, stout, incurved spur and a smaller 

 blunt one on inner angle. Resembles Dri/oh'tlmx iitiincticiix. 



Champion, in a letter to Dury, suggested that, from the de- 

 scription, this might be an Erirhinid instead of Calandrid where 

 Dury placed it, but in the Biologia he includes it in Anchonini. 



820 ( -). TYPIILOGLYMMA PUTEOLATUM Dury, Journ. Gin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 XIX, 1901, 243. 



Dark brown, shining; head globular, lighter brown than body, glab- 

 rous, translucent. Thorax slightly longer 

 than wide, sides subparallel, rounded to 

 ! the broad, feeble apical constriction; disc 

 covered with large, round, shallow foveae. 

 Elytra with rows of very large, shallow, 

 i'oveate punctures; intervals very shining, 

 slightly elevated and with rows of erect 

 yellow bristles. Body beneath coarsely 

 foveate. Length, including beak, 4 mm. 

 (Fig. 115.) 



The unique type was found at Ba- 

 tavia Junction, near Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, July 31, 1000 ; frequent search 

 has failed to produce another. It 

 was taken while sifting debris, from 



Fig. n 5 . x " (After Dury.) a ( . av jty at the roots of a large oak 

 tree; a spring of cold water flowed out, and the honey-combed 

 center of the tree was occupied by a nest of ants, Formica penn- 

 sijlranica. "As the wet, muddy debris was sifted on the paper, 

 this beetle staggered out of the mud, like a blind member of a 

 vanishing race, as I believe it is." (Duri/.) 



Tribe III. DRYOPHTHORINI. 



Small, coarsely sculptured species, covered with dirt colored 

 crust and having the beak rather slender, longer than head, cylin- 

 drical; scutellum invisible; tibiae slender, not dilated, their ter- 

 minal hook long. Two genera represent the tribe, (rononotus, 

 formerly included, having been transferred to the tribe An- 

 chonini. 



