Goleopterological Notices, VI. 74T 



iineA'enl}^ punctate. Legs rather long and slender. Length 3.0 

 mm.; width 1.1 mm. 



Lake Superior, — Cab. LeConte. The male has the anterior 

 tibiae feebly bent but not much thickened ; the female scarcely 

 differs in form. 



6. A. piliictiger n. sp. — Stout and convex, shininf;;, pale rnfo-testaceous, 

 the under surface of the hind body only slightly picescent; elytra more flavate, 

 each with a small feebly defined median spot of piceoustint; pubescence very 

 short, coarse, decumbent, cinereous and rather sparse, the prosternum and 

 under surface of the head with a few \ery long erect setoe. Head triangular, 

 wider than long, shining but coarsely, sparsely tuberculose and minutely 

 punctate, the smooth median line nearl^^ even, distinct and entire; base trun- 

 cate; tempora very prominent and angulate; eyes rather large, at much less 

 than their own length from the base; antennai rather short, about one-half 

 longer than the head, moderately stout, submoniliform except toward the 

 base, the tenth joint transverse, eleventh at least one-half longer than the 

 tenth, conoidal. Protlwrax short and strongly transverse, just visibly wider 

 than the head, the sides parallel and evenly, subcircularly rounded to just 

 before the middle, then becoming very strongly convergent to the basal mar- 

 gin at basal sixth or seventh, then pai'allel to the base; apex transversely 

 evenly and feebly arcuate; disk coarsely, rather closely tuberculose, impressed 

 along the median line except toward base. Elytra oblong-oval, scarcely' more 

 than one-half longer than wide, the sides evenly and distinctly arcuate; base 

 sinuate for the thoracic base; the apex not very broadly, obtusely rounded ; 

 humeri widely exposed at base; disk with the basal impressions and onioplates 

 subobsolete, the punctures coarse, widely impressed, deep and moderately 

 separated. Abdomen finely and somewhat irregularly punctate. Legs moder- 

 ately long and slender, the femora distinctly, subasperately punctate. Length 

 2.9 mm.; width 1.1 mm. 



Lake Superior. 



The single female before me represents a species rather closely 

 allied to granulaiHs^ but differing conspicuously in the more 

 broadW rounded sides of the prothorax anteriorly, in its shorter, 

 more oval and rounded, more posteriori}- attenuate and much 

 more coarsely and closely punctate el3"tra, somewhat shorter an- 

 tennae, coloration and in a number of other characters. 



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7. A. pallens Lee. — Agass. "Lake Superior," p. 231; Proc. Acad., 

 Phila., 1852, p. 103 (Anthicus). 



Stout and convex, rather dull, pale flavo-testaceous throughout ; 

 pubescence short, coarse, decumbent and not very dense. Head 

 triangular, fully as long as wide, finel}', sparsel}' tuberculose, 

 with an even and entire smooth median line ; base truncate, dis- 



