150 AMERICAN COLEOPTEKA 



More parallel and depressed, pubescence longer and less appressed, elytral 

 interspaces with a single regular scries of punctures, color varying 



from yellowish to reddish testaceous eloiigutu. 



Less parallel and less depressed, pubescence shorter and more appressed, 

 elytral interspaces more or less irregularly punctulate, color ferruginous 

 brown fvrrugiiiea. 



C pubescens Gyll. — Fuscous to fusco-testaceous, the paler specimens with 

 the disk of the elytra often broadly infuscate; legs and antennae rufotestaceous; 

 pubescence long and conspicuous, not recumbent. Head narrower than the pro- 

 thorax, moderately coarsely but not closely punctate, tempora long, a little diver- 

 gent, about one-third the length of the eye. Antennae reaching the hind angles 

 of the prothorax. joints all longer than wide. Prothorax but little more than 

 half as wide as the elytra, moderately transverse. Miles rather strongly rounded, 

 widest in front of 1 lie middle, narrowed posteriorly, margin irregularly serrulate ; 

 surface strongly punctate, the punctures distant on the average less than their 

 own diameters, posteriorly foveate. Elytra elongate-oval, convex, coarsely punc- 

 tate-striate ; the punctures of the intervals somewhat variable, but usually 

 nearly as strong as those of the striae, and frequently somewhat confused. .Sterna 

 moderately coarsely punctate : first ventral less coarsely and closely but distinctly 

 punctate; following segments finely, sparsely punctulate. Legs slender ; middle, 

 coxa? distant by about one-fourth the coxal width : metasternum distinctly Longer 

 between the coxa 1 than the post-coxa] length id' the first ventral segment. 



Mule. ---Front and middle tibiae scarcely at all bent at tip, the inner margins 

 nearly straight, the inner apical angle very feebly mucronate ; first joint of front 

 tarsi dilated, first joint of middle tarsi not dilated; last (fifth) ventral subequal 

 in length to the two preceding, apex subacuminate, disk transversely impressed 

 toward the base. 



Female. — Tibite with the inner apical angle rounded, tarsi unmodified ; last 

 ventral shorter and with a deep median fovea; penultimate segment more 

 broadly and feebly impressed. (Fl. IV, fig. 39). 



Length 2.3-3 mm. 



Hab. — Massachusetts (borders of stilt marsh near Cambridge); 

 New York ; Pennsylvania; Michigan (Marquette); Northern Illi- 

 nois:; Iowa. 



This is our largest species and one very easy of recognition by its 

 size and conspicuously long and plentiful pubescence, not to mention 

 the sexual characters, which are quite unique. It is widely dis- 

 tributed throughout Europe, and has, indeed, become quite cosmo- 

 politan. 



C riltliM sp. nov. — Yellowish testaceous, elytra strongly shining; prothorax 

 alutaceous, less shining; pubescence moderately long, suberect, the hairs from 

 the strial punctures shorter and more inclined. Head narrower than the pro- 

 thorax, coarsely punctate; tempora well developed, slightly divergent ; joints of 

 antennae all longer than wide. Prothorax of the same form as in pubescens, very 

 coarsely but not densely punctate, posteriorly foveate, sides irregularly serrulate. 

 Elytra elongate-oval, convex, the strial punctures not coarse, those of the inter- 

 vals but little finer. Sterna very coarsely, rather closely subrugosely punctate, 

 first ventral sparsely but distinctly punctate, following segments more finely 



