AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 403 



Stouter, prothomx distinctly wirier tlmu long, elytra! asi)eritics more 



obvious teiiuipes. 



Less robust, protborax very little wider tlian long ttter. 



Funicle 6-jointed tiiberculatus. 



Smaller species, claws arranged witb a sliort tootb, postocular lobes prominent, 

 eyes concealed in repose. 

 Black, cruciform scutellar spot and lateral fascia wliite. PI. xii. fig. l:i. 



siibtaNciatiis. 

 Dark brown, sutural spot and scattered, erect scales, wbite. I'l. xii, tig. i;5. 



tacliygoiioifleiii. 

 Anterior and middle tibiae subangulate near the base. PI. xii, figs. 1")6 and l.^c. 

 Larger, head convex, without elevated orbital margin, elytral inters[)ac('s rough- 

 ened with small tubercles loiigiroNtriM. 



Smaller, front concsive between the eyes, latter with elevated ridges, elytra 

 without evident asperities, a cruciform scutellar spot of white scales. 



epilobii. 



A. eiirvipes n. sj). PI. xii, fig. 1.1. — Broadly oval, black, antenuai and legs 

 dark rufous; above thinly clothed with whitish pubescence, a large scutellar spot 

 and some scattered ill-defined spots of condensed, larger scales, underside clothed 

 with larger .scales. Beak stout, rather short, slightly curved, finely subcarinate 

 in almost its entire length, striate each side towards the base, the latter squamous, 

 coareely punctured, glabrous at the apex, scrobes suboblique, antennae slender, 

 inserted at the middle, scape directed against the lower angle of the eye, funicle 

 7-joiiited, joints 1-4 elongate, outer joints .short, club oval. Eyes not prominent, 

 only partially concealed in repose. Head coarsely punctured, front slightly con- 

 cave between the eyes, the latter without elevated ridges; prothorax one-half 

 wider than long, less than one-third wider at tlie base than at the apex, narrowed 

 fnmi the basal third to the apical constriction, the latter broad, conspicuous, lat- 

 eral tubercles large, i)rominent, dorsal sulcus almost entire, but distinct at the 

 l>ase only, surface evenly, densely and rather coarsely punctured, each puncture 

 l)earing a fine short hair, a few i)ale condensed scales in front of the scutel, which 

 is very small. Elytra one-fourth wider at the base than the prothorax, regularly 

 rounded on the .sides and narrowed to the apex, strise impressed, closely punctured, 

 interspaces somewhat convex, alternately a little wider, each with a row of very 

 small, but acute granules, more evident on the wider interspaces and on the de- 

 clivity, each bearing a short procumbent seta; pygidium not coarsely itunctured 

 with a longitudinal, feebly impressed sulcus; underside very coarsely punctured, 

 anterior til)iie long and curved, middle and jxjsterior tibiae with a triangular tooth 

 and emargination above the apex, tarsi very slender, first joint nuich longer than 

 the second, third broadly bilobed, fourth shorter than the two preceding joints 

 together, claws with a long, slender tooth. Length ."J.O mm. ; 0.12 inch. 



% . Abdomen flattened along the middle, fifth segment with broad semicircular 

 fovea, middle and posterior tibise unguiculate at the tip. 



Hab. — Texas. 



A male specimen in Dr. Horn's coll. ; it hears the cat)inc't label, 

 " C. tennipes Lee," from which it (litters by its much smaller elytral 

 tubercles, greater size, curved anterior tibi;e and much more slender 

 tarsi; the anterior tibiie have a very small apical hook. 



TRANS. AM. KNT. soc. XXIII. XOVE.MBER, 1896. 



