ColeojDterological Notices, VI. 601 



Head strongly deflexed, coarsely retate, the frontal impressions 

 feeble ; eyes convex, basal ; epistoma with a pale subcoriaceons 

 prolongation, the labrum small, blackish, strongly rounded ; an- 

 tennae scarcel}' as long as the prothorax, feebly incrassate, the 

 penultimate joints slightly transverse. Prothorax one-half wider 

 than long, the sides broadly arcuate, more convergent anteriorly ; 

 disk opaque and coarsely retate, subexplanate near the lateral 

 edges. Elytra three-fourths longer than wide, distinctly wider 

 than the prothorax, the sides parallel and broadly arcuate, gradu- 

 ally and strongh^ rounded behind ; disk ver}- coarsely and closely 

 cribrate, with faint vestiges of two or three uneven costuliforra 

 lines on each. Length 3.3-3.6 mm.; width 1.4 mm. 



Georgia to Louisiana. The feeble costuliform lines on the 

 elytra are especially evident in the male, in which sex the fifth 

 ventral is broadly deflexed toward tip, with the apex somewhat 

 sinuate in the middle, and the genital segment thin, pale and cori- 

 aceous with its apex broadly and feebly sinuate, and its surface nar- 

 rowly and abruptl}' carinate along the middle. The description 

 is drawn from the female, and in the other sex the prothorax is 

 less transverse and less narrowed anteriorly, and the elj'tra rela- 

 tively shorter and more obtuse behind. Two specimens. 



2. A. cribrata Lee. — Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., VI, p. 171 (Dasytes) ; 



Class. Col. N. A., 1^61, p. 93 (Melyris). 



Resembles basalis, but smaller, less stout and with the elytra 

 uniformly piceous throughout, the epistoma and labrum pale ; 

 pubescence short, sparse and scarcel}'' distinct. Length 2.2-2.6 

 mm.; width 0.8-LO mm. 



Middle and Southern States. This species is not rare, and may 

 be distinguished readil}' b}^ the characters given in the table. In 

 the male the shining surface of the fifth ventral is graduallv de- 

 flexed toward tip, the latter truncate ; the genital segment is 

 small and has a strong: median carina. 



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3. A. floridaiia n. sp. — Eather stout and convex, gradually broader be- 

 hind, dull anteriorly, the elytra shining; body Idack, the elytra rather pale and 

 piceous; legs piceous-brown. the femora blackish; antennse blackish, the two 

 basal joints pale; pubescence dark fulvo-cinereous, suberect, fine and rather 

 dense anteriorly, long coarse and very sparse on the elytra. Head four-fifths 

 as wide as the prothorax, dull and retate, smoother near the apex, not im- 

 pressed; epistoma pale and well developed, the labrum pale and strongly 

 rounded; eyes moderate in size and convexity; antennae very short, about as 



