Vol. XXvi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 175 



Three new Species of Coleoptera from North 



Carolina. 



By A. H. MANEE, Southern Pines, North Carolina. 



The following species of beetles were declared to be new 

 by the late Frederick Blanchard after whom I have named 

 the first. Types have been placed in the collection of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Selenophorus blanchardi n. sp. 



Color dark brown with wings slightly metallic, scarcely lighter 

 beneath, antennae light, paler towards base. 



Head moderate with two long and four shorter bristles in front; 

 eyes prominent with long bristle at base ; antennae not reaching to 

 base of thorax, a bristle at front of first segment. 



Thorax as wide in front as at base, sides from rounded frontal 

 corner rounding almost evenly to very near basic angle, edge with 

 bristle at anterior two-fifths, median stria almost or quite obsolete, 

 without punctures, basic depressions almost or quite obsolete but 

 slightly rugose, edge depressed quite evenly except more widely near 

 base. 



Elytra from rounded shoulders very gradually widening to middle, 

 thence rounding in and at apical sixth more abruptly with marginal 

 depression at apical eighth, striae distinct but shallow with intervals 

 smooth and flat, second inner stria with four punctures at regular 

 intervals of .5 mm. and with a fifth puncture only .25 mm. from the 

 fourth. 



Legs : all tibiae strongly bristled, hind tibia longer than tarsus, first 

 segment of hind tarsus as long as the remainder. 



Length 5 mm., width 2.3 mm., length of elytra 3 mm. 



From four specimens taken by the author at Southern 

 Pines, North Carolina, about mid-April of 1912, 1913 and 

 1914. 



Erchomus politus n. sp. 



Color piceous. The microscopic uni-pilose punctures so widely 

 separated by such smooth spaces as to allow the appearance of a pol- 

 ished surface, even the microscopically crinkled head also shining, 

 midwings, edges, legs, antennae and mouth parts lighter. 



Head not large, eyes with minute facets in relief ; antennae very 

 pilose, segments 3 to IO gradually increasing, the eleventh diminishing 

 to tip and as long as 9 and 10 combined, extending to basic third of 

 thorax. 



