NORTH AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 261 



III. 



Attention is called to a very singular sexual character in 

 a Californian species of Leptacinns, a figure of which is given 

 on the plate. The species may possibly be hrunnescem Lee. 

 The pronotum of this specimen is not foveate at the sides, 

 but another specimen of apparently the same species has a 

 large deep fovea at about the middle of each side of the 

 pronotum and very near the edge; the latter example has 

 the sixth ventral segment simple and broadly rounded at 

 the apex. 



IV. 



In the classification of the Coleoptera of North America — 

 p. 97 — occurs the sentence: ^'The second ventral segment 

 is marked witii two short ridges." As there is no such 

 structure in our species of Stenini, the insertion of this 

 phrase must be the result of an oversight. 



V. 



Although the synonymical notices recently published by 

 M. Fauvel through Dr. Horn (Proc. Ent. Sec. A. N. S., 

 Phil., June, 1886, p. xiii) relating to several species of 

 Stenini described by me may possibly be correct, there is a 

 much greater probability of error. This probability almost 

 amounts to a certainty in the case of Heinistemis reconditus, 

 which is not the same as tarsalis Ljungh. In order to sub- 

 stantiate this statement I would refer the reader to the out- 

 lines of the tarsal claws of the two species, which I have 

 figured on the plate accompanying tlie Revision. 



As for the other synonyms indicated by M. Fauvel, it can 

 only be said that the descriptions of the species mentioned 

 which are given by Erichson and Rey do not agree very 

 satisfactorily with those which I have drawn up as care- 

 fully as possible in the Revision of the North American 

 Stenini for the corresponding American forms. 



