132 AMi:i:i< AN COLEOPTERA.. 



Ihib. — Colorado. One example from Denver and others without 

 locality : Idaho. Beaver Canon. 



Very similar to fictus, but differing distinctly in the sculpture of 

 the under surface and in antenna! formation, as described under the 

 last named species. The resemblance to the European transversus 

 is also very marked, a specimen in the Hubbard and Schwarz collec- 

 tion indeed bearing this label. In transversus the prothorax is ordi- 

 narily darker in color than the elytra, the sides are straighter, the 

 elytra a little more parallel and more obtusely rounded at the apex, 

 the metasternum and first ventral not punctate, but marked with 

 rugae as in fictus, the first ventral with an impressed line produced 

 obliquely backward for a short distance behind the inner margin of 

 the coxa'. This impressed line is also present in the European 

 rugosus, but I have not detected it in any of our species. The an- 

 tenna' in transversus are formed as is mimus. 



E. vsiuus sp. now — Elongate-oval, moderately convex, piceous, feebly shin- 

 ing, legs and antennae rufous. Head as long as wide, rugosely punctate, convex, 

 without median sulcus, a small impression ai the middle of the posterior margin : 

 eyes moderate, prominent, tempore a little more than one-third the length of the 

 I'vts; antennae rather slender and reaching the hind angles of the prothorax, all 

 joints after tin- first much longer than wide, except the tenth which is hut slightly 

 so. Prothorax transverse, widest before the middle, sides moderately rounded 

 anteriorly, faintly sinuate before the hind angles, which are nearly right ; mar- 

 gins faintly subserrulate; surface rugosely punctate, a narrow, nearly complete 

 hut not deeply impressed median line, which is hut slightly expanded anteriorly, 

 and a deeper and broad transverse basal impression. Elytra elongate-oval, widest 

 at the middle, finely pan ctate-striate, the punctures smaller and more lightly 

 impressed toward the apex: interspaces nearly Hat, the outer one very slightly 

 convex: minutely suhrugulose and dull. Metasternum rather sparsely, finely 

 punctate, with a few very short and indistinct rugae radiating from the posterior 

 margins of the feeble post-coxal fovea?; median impressed line of metasternum 

 nearly complete. Firsl ventral finely and still more sparsely punctate, its surface 

 minutely alutaceous anteriorly, its posterior margin moderately shining, as are 

 t he following segments. Length 1.9 mm. 



Hab — Colorado (Ouray, 7500-8000 ft.). 



A single example was taken at the above locality by Mr. Wick- 

 ham, who has very generously allowed me to retain it. It is closely 

 allied to the following species, and also to the European rugosus, 

 from the latter of which it nitty be distinguished by the absence of 

 the oblique impressed lines of the first ventral, to which reference 

 litis already been made under mimus. 



K. ineinltiv sp. nov. — Very close to vanua and differing as follows: The 

 color is invariably uniformly ferruginous brown throughout in the series of 

 fifteen examples before me; the form is a little broader, the antennas distinctly 



