Coleopterological Notices, VI. 735 



broadly exposed and rounded to the prothorax; post-seutellar impression 

 distinct, the iutra-humeral subobsolete; omoplates large and very feeble; 

 punctures sparse and only moderately coarse. Abdomen dull, very densely 

 clothed with short fine and dark pubescence. Legs moderately long and some- 

 what stout. Length 2.75 nun. ; width 0.9-1.0 mm. 



Iowa (Keokuk). 



The description is taken from the male, which has very feeble 

 sexual characters in striking contrast to the preceding species. 

 The anterior legs and trochanters are normal, the fifth ventral 

 much longer than the fourth, unmodified on the disk, the apex 

 feebly truncate and with a finely but strongly beaded edge, the 

 genital segment dark and subcorneous, perfectly even on the disk, 

 with the apex broadly and evenly truncate. The female differs 

 from the male considerably in general form, the prothorax being 

 smaller, shorter and more narrowly rounded at the sides ante- 

 riorly, the elytra relatively much broader, more strongly arcuate at 

 the sides and nearly two and one-half times as wide as the pro- 

 thorax. The single pair represents a species allied in general 

 characters to pubescens. 



3. S. fulvipes Laf.— Mon., p. 177; Lee: Proc. Acad., Pbila., 1852, p. 102 

 (Anthicus). 



Moderately stout, convex, polished, the pronotum dull, black 

 to brownish-black, the head, prothorax and under surface fre- 

 quently dark piceo-rufous ; antenute and legs throughout pale 

 rufo-testaceous ; apices of the abdominal segments clouded with 

 blackish ; pubescence rather short, abundant, pale and conspicu- 

 ous, the longer hairs of the el3^tra inclined and not very notice- 

 able. Head transverse, ver}- minutely and sparsely punctate, the 

 eyes large and prominent. Prothorax much narrower than the 

 head, noi quite as long as wide, strongly rounded at the sides 

 anteriorly, narrowed and sinuate thence to the base, which is dis- 

 tincth' margined ; disk finely but strongly, very densely punctate. 

 Elytra barely three-fourths longer than wide, distinctly more than 

 twice as wide as the prothorax, wider behind the middle than at 

 base, the sides arcuate ; punctures sparse and coarse. Abdomen 

 pubescent ; metasternura almost impunctate. Length 2.25-2.5 

 mm.; width 0.8-0.9 mm. 



Texas and Louisiana, — Cab. LeConte. I obtained a good series 

 of this species at Galveston. The male, from which the above 

 outline is drawn, has the anterior trochanters and tibial unmodi- 



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