ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov., '05 



This species is quite different from its closest ally P. u'oodii 

 Horn. It is larger, more elongate, with the elytral margin 

 having a pronounced outward curve near the centre. The legs 

 are entirely and strikingly different in color from those of 

 ivoodii, the latter being bright green with the tarsi metallic 

 violaceous. The hind tibiae are less spined and pitted in beyen 

 which has an entirely different facies. It has more the general 

 appearance of some of the species of Chrysina. About a year 

 agtf I received a specimen from Reef, Cochise County, Arizona, 

 and have also examined one in Mr. Wenzel's collection pre- 

 sumably from the same place in the Huachuca Mountains. 

 During the past summer I saw a number of specimens taken by 

 Messrs. Beyer, Schaeffer and Biederman, and learned that the 

 species had been distributed in collections under the name 

 Plusiotis ivoodii Horn. Named in honor of Mr. G. Beyer, of 

 New York, that enthusiastic and indefatigable collector who 

 has done such good work in making better known many rare 

 species. Described from four specimens, two from Carr Can- 

 yon, one from Miller Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, 

 and one in Mr. Wenzel's collection probably from the same 

 mountains. I wrote to Dr. H. C. Wood, of Philadelphia, in 

 regard to the exact locality of Plusiotis woodii and received the 

 following reply : " The beetles you speak of were, I believe, 

 collected near El Paso, Texas. Certainly either there or in 

 the valley of Tornellias (spelt from memory) creek in the great 

 bend of the Rio Grande, as these were the only places at 

 which our expedition touched the Rio Grande." Plusiotis 

 gloriosa was taken commonly at about five thousand feet eleva- 

 tion and P. Iccontei is believed to be fairly abundant above six 

 thousand feet in both Carr and Ramsey Canyons, although but 

 few specimens were found. 



Acanthocinus linearis n. sp. 



Head covered with dense pubescence, composed of a mixture of brown 

 and gray hairs. Antenna; brown with alternating gray patches. Thorax 

 vinaceous buff, pubescent with black punctuation and lateral line or fascia 

 of velvety brown ; central dorsal surface with a wide longitudinal band or 

 fascia of dark brown, in some specimens broken into three distinct lines. 

 Abdomen with mixed pubescence of gray and white (vinaceous buff?). 

 Humeri same color as the thorax ; basal two-thirds of elytra heavily pu- 



