Coleopterological Notices, VI. 837 



last three sutures straight and very coarse. Legs short, the 

 femora elongate, parallel and completely unarmed, the tibiae ex- 

 tremely short, not more than one-half as long as the femora, ter- 

 minated by a strong curved spur projecting sublongitudinally 

 from the outer angle; tarsi as long as the tibiae, the third joint 

 dilated and bilobed ; last joint slender; claws rather short, very 

 stout, simple, strongly arcuate and divergent. Elytra with the 

 side margins horizontall}' inflexed around the apices but vertical 

 toward base. 



In general habitus this genus strongly resembles Acamptus, 

 but its structural characters place it in the vicinity of Lembodes ; 

 it is represented at present by a single species. 



P. subtropicus u. sp. — Strongly convex, black, densely covered throufili- 

 out the body and legs with a thick grayish crust of cottony or felted consistence, 

 from which arise sparse subclavate scales, which are distinct on the prothorax, 

 but, on the elytra, very short and only distinct on the elevated intervals, the 

 indumeut subdemided in an elongate blackish spot behind the scutelluni. 

 Head two-fifths as wide as the prothorax, densely clothed with the squamiferous 

 indument in a crust which continues onto the base of the beak, the latter 

 three-fourths as long as the prothorax, piceous, shining, nude and punctate, 

 parallel and slender but rapidly broadening at base. Prothorax as long as 

 wide, narrowed and sinuate at the sides toward apex, the latter strongly, 

 evenly rounded; sides becoming parallel toward base, the latter rectilinear: 

 disk almost even. Scutelluni small, acutely elevated. Elytra one-third longer 

 than wide, distinctly wider than the prothorax and scarcely twice as long; 

 sides parallel and nearly straight, the apex broadly rounded ; humeral angles 

 very slightly tumid ; disk finely striate, not distinctly punctate, the alternate 

 intervals strongly elevated but nearly flat. Length 2.2-3.0 mm. ; width 8- 

 1.25 mm. 



Florida (Punta Gorda). Mr. Schwarz. 



The indument is usually a little darker on the prothorax, with 

 a fine median line and broader lateral stripe paler, and the elj'tra 

 have a transverse series of small feeble dai-ker spots before the 

 middle and one or two on the suture toward apex. 



Note. — It is probable that ^cam/)^MSec/?,in us, recently- described 

 by me (Col. Not. IV, p. 445) from New York, is in realit^^ from 

 Arizona, the label being erroneous. 



ACAI.I.ES Schonh. 

 The following species belongs near hubhardi Lee, and is still 

 broader across the humeral tuberosities : — 



