Ti^^^]srs-A.o Tioisrs 



OF THE 



AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



VOLUME XII. 



Short Studies of North American COL.EOPTERA. (JSTo. 2) 



BY JOHN L. LECONTE, M. D.* 



I have here included descriptions of nearly all the the important or 

 interesting species which remained undescribed in my collection, except 

 those which require special memoirs or monographs for their proper elu- 

 cidation. Other species belonging to families to which he has given 

 special attention are comprised in a foregoing paper by Dr. Horn, so that 

 these two papers may be considered to exhaust the miscellaneous material 

 now in our possession. 



I am indebted to the kindness and facile pencil of Dr. Horn for his 

 excellent illustration of Amphichroum maculafum. 



■•■■■ After the completion of the second edition of the Classification, Dr. LeConte 

 employed his moments of better health in arranging some portions of his cabinet 

 and writing descriptions of such new species as seemed worthy of separate publi- 

 cation. He was in his study when the chill came on which rendered him comatose 

 and ended in death. After his burial I visited his study and found evidences of 

 very recent work, the manuscript, the open inkstand, the pen and the specimens 

 were as if he had just left them. The manuscript was fragmentary, and much of 

 it incomplete, requiring on my part a thorough study of the material for the com- 

 pletion of the tables and the description of the new species. I can only regret 

 that the publication has from necessity met with delay, which is partially com- 

 pensated by the recognition of a certain amount of synonymy which has been 

 avoided. The two years just passed will always be recalled with profound sorrow, 

 it having been my privilege with my friend Sall^ to prepare for publication a 

 posthumous memoir by Baron Chaudoir in 1882, and now alone to present the 

 evidences of the unflagging zeal of my lamented friend and associate, Dr. John L. 

 LeConte. —(Geo. H. Horn) 



TRANS. AMER. ENT. SOC. XII. (1) NOVEMBER. 1884. 



