141 TIIK CANADIAN KNT«»M«»I/M1|8T. 



pronotum, moderately long, sparser, bristling and a little paler on the 

 elytra, interlacing across the suture posteriorly ; sparse scales at the 

 sides of the body beneath plumose ; prothorax two-thirds wider than 

 long, the sides very strongly converging from base to apex and not 

 ably arcuate, the punctures rather coarse, very dense; elytra oblong- 

 oval, slightly longer than wide, much wider than the prothorax, the 

 stria' not very coarse and rather shallow, distinctly but not coarsely 

 punctured, the intervals wide, flat, feebly punctato-rugulose. Length, 

 2.3 mm.; width, 1.4 mm. Mas-iachuseiti puritanm n. sp. 



Form narrower, more elongate oval, the prothorax less evidently narrower 

 than the elytra, shorter, nearly ihrec-fourlhs wider than long, the sides 

 strongly converging throughout and only feebly arcuate, the punctures 

 - coarse but rather less crowded, the erect short hairs less abundant ; 

 elytra nearly similar but narrower and with the sparse erect hairs 

 longer, more fulvo-cinereous and less abundant, the striw much deeper 

 and strongly, though not coarsely, punctate, the intervals narrower, 

 less Hat, shining, very finely and rather sparsely punctulate ; vestiture 

 at the sides of the body beneath nearly simihr. Length, 1.8 mm ; 

 width, I.I mm. Massachusetts (the hicnlity different from that of 

 puritanus but unrecorded) nanin n. sp. 



Form much more elongate-oval than in any other here recorded, convex, 

 black ; beak long and slender, feebly arcuate, much longer thin the 

 head and prothorax, with the antennie inserted but little beyond basal 

 third ; prothorax scarcely one-half wider than long, the converging 

 sides strongly arcuate ; punctures moderately siuill, dense, the vesti- 

 ture abun Jant, dusky-cinereous, short and somctvhat inclined ; elytra 

 elongate-oval, nearly a fifth wider than the prothorax, a fifth or si.xth 

 longef than wide, the humeral callus moderately prominent, the stria: 

 unusually fine, moderately deep, finely, no: closely punctate, the 

 intervals flat, between three and four times as wide as the stria;, 

 shining, sparsely |)unctatc and subrugulose, the erect sparse hairs 

 very stiff but shorter than usual and more dusky cinereous ; sides of 

 the sterna densely stpianiDse, the scales closely decumbent as usual, 

 brownish-cinereous and finely, closely plumulo>e ; pygidium large, 

 vertical, deeply punctate. Length, 2.35 mm ; widih, 1.2 mm. 

 Illinois ///////■ n. sp. 



The name Miarui hispiJulus has been used by Reitter, according to 

 the recent Kuropean catalogue, but is preoccupied by LeConte for the 

 above American species. 



