TO Coleopferological Notices. 



short. Abdomen distinctly narrower than the elytra; sides parallel and nearly 

 straight, a little more convergent toward apex ; surface very finely, sparsely 

 punctate, beneath minutely and sparsely so. Length 2.5 mm. 



Rhode Island. 



The hypomera are very wide, with the sides parallel, flat but 

 depressed far below the lateral edges, so that the latter are very 

 acute and prominent ; the eoxal fissures are extremely short and 

 appear to be very narrowly open, the hypomeral edge being be- 

 neath the prosternal or anterior edge. The mentum is nearh^ flat, 

 the subbasal median impression being somewhat feeble. 



This species belongs in the neighborhood of basalis, but diifers in 

 the form of the prothorax and sinuation of the convergent portion 

 of the sides, and in its rather distinct basal angles ; the elytra are 

 more finely and densely punctate and the size considerably larger. 



B. tur1>1lleiltus n. sp. — Rather slender, black ; elytra very pale, yel- 

 lowish-white, the basal margin piceous-black ; legs and antennae testaceous, 

 the femora darker ; integuments polished, head and prothorax finely, evenly 

 and rather strongly reticulate ; abdomen coarsely reticulate, with the retal 

 lines very fine. Bead distinctly narrower than the prothorax, convex ; eyes 

 rather large and prominent ; surface finely, rather feebly and sparsely punc- 

 tate, neither foveate nor tuberculate ; antennal prominences small and very 

 feeble ; suture fine, not impressed ; epistoma with a fine apical tubercle near 

 each anterior angle ; antenna? rather slender, evenly incrassate ; second joint 

 not very robust, cylindrical, slightly longer than the next two together, fifth 

 distinctly longer than wide, eighth and ninth similar in form, the latter the 

 larger, just visibly wider than long, tenth slightly shorter than the ninth, less 

 than one-half wider than long, eleventh not quite as wide as tlie tenth, dis- 

 tinctly elongate, gradually pointed, as long as the seventh and eighth together. 

 Prothorax nearly as wide as the base of the elytra, two-fifths wider than long ; 

 sides in anterior two-thirds parallel and straight, then converg(nit and very 

 feebly arcuate to the basal angles, which are very obtuse and broadly rounded 

 and not distinct ; lateral angles very obtuse and broadly rounded, apical right, 

 not visibly rounded and just perceptibly anteriorly prominent; apex trans- 

 versely truncate ; base very feebly arcuate ; disk transversely, moderately 

 convex, finely i)unctate, the jiunctures rather feebly impressed and somewhat 

 dense, being separated by scarcely more than twice their own diameters ; 

 median groove very fine, feebly impressed, not attaining the apex. Elytra 

 quadrate, two-thirds longer and one-fourth wider than the protliorax ; sides 

 nearly straight, just visibly divergent; outer angles rather Itroadly, inner 

 very narrowly rounded ; surface feebly impressed near the suture at base, 

 finely, feebly and densely punctate. Aldomen distinctly narrower than the 

 elytra, as wide as the prothorax ; sides parallel and nearly straight, the sixth 



