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dead among the scraps and dust of tobacco remaining in one of the 

 boxes in which leaf tobacco had been shipped from Havana, Cuba, 

 to a Chicago cigar factory. In the same box there were also found 

 many specimens of a small brownish Hemipter and a species of Cato- 

 rama, besides full} 7 twenty other species of Coleoptera, most of which 

 were minute forms. The Hemipterous insects and the Catorama had 

 been preyed upon by some other insect, presumably by T. girodi. 



The original types of this species came from Cuba under exactly 

 the same conditions, and were stated by Chevrolat to be indebted 

 for nourishment to the larvae and perfect insects of the genus Catorama. 



Compared with sanguineus Say, this species is larger, has the 

 prothorax less densely, more coarsely punctate, the longitudinal 

 median depression deeper and better defined, the elytra somewhat 

 more sparsely punctate and not uniformly convex but longitudinally 

 depressed each side of suture at the middle. 



Aulicus monticola Gorham. 



Aulicus monticola Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Amer., in, Pt. 2, 1882, p. 146, 

 pi. vin, fig. 18. 



This species, described from Mexico, and which is new to the 

 fauna of America north of Mexico, was taken in August at Alpine, 

 Texas, by Prof. Wickham, to whom the writer is indebted for ex- 

 amples of this species and A . nero. 



The typical form is black; the head red, the antennae, palpi, and 

 mandibles black; rugosely punctate above; the prothorax sparsely, 

 strongly punctate, red, anterior margin and a wide median vitta 

 black, pilosity grayish; elytra chalybeous, the rmmeri, a post-median, 

 fascia interrupted at the suture, and the lateral margins before the 

 fascia red; abdomen (the apex excepted) red. Length 8-13 millim. 



The specimen before the author differs from the type in color 

 pattern to some slight extent: The second and third antennal joints 

 are red; both the anterior and basal margins of the thorax are black, 

 the latter broadly, the former abbreviated towards the flanks; the 

 red elytral markings are reduced in extent, preserving, however, the 

 typical style of ornamentation ; the abdomen is black, the apical angles 

 of the fifth ventral segment alone being red; the length is 9.5 millim. 



In the remarks following the description, Rev. Gorham states 

 that the tarsal claws are simple; in the specimen at hand they are 

 incrassate at base, as they are also in nero. 



