NORTH AMERICAN COLEOl'TERA. 
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'4. foxaiuis n. sp. Plate v, fig. 9.— Elongate oval, rufo-piceons, flensely 
clothecl abov'e and beneath with very coarse, yellowish gray puhescence. Peak 
moderately slender, somewhat depressed and shining; punctured and i)ubescent 
at the base; 4-sulcate from the base to the insertion of the antennfe. sulci punc- 
tured; beyond, finely and remotely punctured. Antennae not very slender; 
second joint of funicle much longer than the third ; joints 3-/ subturbinate, 
somewhat transverse and becoming gradually wider ; seventh joint continuous 
to the club. Verticels consisting of about 8-10 stiff, long white hri.«tles. Club 
elongate ovate, joints rather closely connate, pubescent. Head convex ; occiput 
finely, front somewhat flattened and more coarsely punctured ; transversely im- 
pressed behind the eyes, frontal fovea deep, elongate. Eyes moderately convex, 
not free behind. Prothorax conical, one-third wider than long and about twice 
as wide at the base than at the apex ; sides feebly rounded from base to apex, 
latter not constricted, slightly emarginate; base feebly bisinuate. Surface feebly 
convex, densely and coarsely punctured and pubescent; pubescence condensed 
along the median line ; anterior thoracic opening not oblique, rather deei>ly emar- 
ginate at its inferior margin, giving rise to the appearance of postocular lobes, 
which are ciliate with long, flying hairs. Elytra oblong, scarcely wider at the 
base than the prothorax ; sides nearly straight, parallel for two-thirds their length, 
gradually rounded to and feebly separated at tbe tip, leaving the pygidium ex- 
posed ; base straight; strife and punctures deep and rather coarse on the disc, 
less so toward the apex; interspaces convex, especially toward the base, finely 
punctured ; pygidium perpendicular. Legs slender ; femora feebly clavate, an- 
terior and middle bidentate ; hind thighs unidentate; all the tibife bisinuate 
internally and subangulate above the middle. Tarsi slender. Long. 3.25 — 3.75 
mm.; .1.3 — .15 inch. 
Hab. — Texas. 
In form this species resembles somewhat Trichobaris, without, 
however, the denuded spots; through the emarginate prosteruum and 
the outer joints of funicle continuous to the club, the |)resent subgenus 
approaches Macrorhoptus, and through the former also Anthonomor- 
phus. 
Subgenus Leptarthrus. 
Under this subgeneric name I have separated from Anthonomus 
proper two new and peculiar species from Florida, in which the an- 
tennal club becomes greatly elongated and the joints very loosely 
articulate; the beak is slender. Antenme very slender, funicle 7- 
jointed, with the first and second joint longer than the following 
ones. Prosteruum very short in front of {'.oxie ; mesosternum mod- 
erately wide between the coxie. Ventral segments subequal ; first 
and second moderately long, former longer than the latter; seg- 
ments 0 and 4 short, equal, or nearly so ; fifth segment a little 
longer than the fourth in the male, and about equal to it in the 
female ; pygidium exposed in both sexes ; anterior legs longer and 
