168 Coleopterological Notices. 



Texas (El Paso). Mr. G. W. Dium. 



This very anomalous little beetle apparently lives in flowers or 

 on plants ; the three specimens before me are males ; I have not 

 seen the female. 



POLYPH1LI.A Harris. 



The American species of this genus appear to agree very well 

 with the European, and differ principally in their shorter, more 

 robust legs. The following species belongs near decemlineata, and 

 may be at once interpolated in the table given by Dr. Horn (Trans. 

 Am. Ent. Soc, IX, p. 73). 



P. speciosa n. sp. — Elongate-oval, convex ; prothorax trivittate ; lateral 

 vittie interrupted. 



Female. — Head much wider than long ; clypeus two and one-half times as 

 wide as long ; sides parallel, feebly arcuate ; apex broadly and very feebly 

 bisinuate, the lateral angles acute, more prominent and more strongly re- 

 flexed ; front coarsely and very densely punctate, rather sparsely clothed with 

 short erect hairs, and squamose with large pointed scales toward the eyes 

 and along the margins of the clypeus ; antennae rather robust ; basal joint 

 pyriform, robust, as long as the next two together ; second and third elongate, 

 the latter much the longer, fourth obconical, slightly produced inwardly at 

 apex, feebly transverse ; club feebly arcuate, six-jointed, first narrower and 

 more acuminate than the others, pointed, and but little more than one-half as 

 long, remaining joints equal in length and nearly as long as the entire stem 

 including the basal joint. Protliorux widest just behind the middle, narrowed 

 rather rapidly thence to the apex, the latter about two-thirds as wide as the 

 base, broadly emarginate and feebly bisinuate ; base broadly arcuate, more 

 strongly so in the middle ; sides subangulate, angle narrowly rounded, thence 

 just visibly arcuate to the apical angles, and extremely feebly sinuate to tlie 

 base, broadly and very feebly subcrenulate throughout ; basal angles obtuse, 

 not at all rounded ; disk convex, with a very small feeble impression near 

 each lateral edge at the middle of the length ; vittaj white, very dense, the 

 lateral interrupted anteriorly, remainder sparsely covered with large elongate 

 pointed yellow scales, which are denser near the basal margin except in the 

 middle ; surface anteriorly with a verj' few short erect liairs ; punctures large, 

 shallow, round and variolate, rather densely but unevenly distributed, each 

 enclosing a scale. Scntellum broadly parabolic, vittate. Elytra three-fifths 

 longer than wide, in the middle one-third wider than the prothorax ; sides 

 parallel and feebly arcuate, subtruncate behind ; humeri slightly tumid ; 

 apical umbones large and feeble ; each elytron with three broad dense white 

 vittip, and a fourtli very narrow and interrupted between the second and 

 third from the suture ; third vitta abruptly terminating near the apex, feebly 

 and evenly arcuate throughout, first and second meeting on the apical umbo, 

 the first irregular toward base ; suture narrowly vittate, the vitta continuing 



