Coleopterological Notices. 77 



In the male type above described, there is a stout spinose seta at 

 the posterior extremity of the pubescent area of the sixth segment ; 

 I cannot determine whether this is accidental or not.^ 



A. aiinectens Lee. — Ancyrophonts annect. Lee, Trans. Am.. Ent. Soc, VI, 

 p. 242. — Slightly robust, strongly depressed, piceous-black ; elytra paler, 

 rufo-piceous ; legs pale flavate ; antennae piceous-black, fuscous toward base ; 

 pubescence extremely fine and sparse, much less sparse on the elytra ; integu- 

 ments polished. Head rather distinctly narrower than the prothorax, feebly 

 convex, feebly and sparsely punctate, a wide median area impunctate ; eyes 

 moderate, rather convex, the tempera one-half longer and a little less convex 

 than the eye, although equally prominent ; transverse basal impression strong ; 

 vertex not impressed in the middle ; antennae long, evenly and rather distinctly 

 incrassate, a little longer than the head and prothorax together, strongly 

 geniculate, basal joint about as long as the next two together, the latter sub- 

 equal, tenth nearly as long as wide. Prothorax three-fourths wider than long, 

 transversely truncate at base and apex ; sides obtusely angulate near the apex, 

 convergent and nearly straight to the apex and base ; basal angles distinctly 

 rounded, apical nearly right and just visibly rounded, not anteriorly promi- 

 nent ; disk broadly, rather feebly, somewhat indefinitely and arcuately im- 

 pressed on each side of the rather narrow median impunctate line, the latter 

 wider near the apex ; punctures moderate, somewhat dense in the impressed 

 areas. Elytra one-third wider than, and nearly twice as long as the prothorax, 

 quadrate, depressed, broadly impressed in the middle at base, rather finely 

 distinctly and densely punctate. Abdomen distinctly narrower than the elytra ; 

 sides straight and parallel. 



M<de. — Sixth segment noi'mal, withoiit' trace of denser pubescence in the 

 middle ; seventh extremely broadly and feebly emarginate at apex, the middle 

 of tlie emargination just visibly produced and arcuate ; eighth not impressed. 



Female. — Seventh segment longer, broadly rounded at apex, the middle of 

 the apex with a very feeble sinuation, the margin of the sinuation lined with 

 a fringe of short, porrected, semi-membranous or gelatinous hairs ; eighth 

 impressed. 



Length 3.5 mm. 



California (Sonoma Co.). 



A wider, more depressed species than the preceding, and appa- 

 rently somewhat rare. The series before me consists of five speci- 

 mens, all taken at Fisk's Mill on the seacoast. 



1 Since writing this paragraph I have received one other male example from 

 Alameda Co, The spine is very distinct and in the same position, but instead 

 of a single spine, there is here a closely condensed clump of five or six stiff 

 setse. The appearance of a single stiff spine in the original type is prol^ably 

 due to the complete agglutination of these setae. The head in the Alameda 

 male is, however, quite distinctly narrower, and this particular specimen may 

 possibly be less fully developed. 



