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A. briiiiiiipciiiiii^ ;\Iaiin. — An oblong species, resenil)ling the (>receding 
in form and size, with the beak punctured and striate, tlie head punctured, 
frontal line long ; the iirothorax is a little longer than wide, very coarsely and 
densely punctured; the elytra! strife punctured, distant, not much iinju-essed ; 
interspaces flat, smooth: the antenufe. are testaceous, with piceous club ; second 
joint of fimicle equal to third and fourth united. Legs slender, thighs very 
feebly clavate, armed with a very small, acute tooth, almost obsolete on the hind 
jiair ; tibife nearly straight. Body thinly pubescent, with some intermixed scales 
towards the sides and on the under surface. 
Hdh. — Geysers, Cal. l\Ir. Crotdi. 
I have not seen this species in nature, and tlierefore can only repeat 
here the description as given by LeConte. 
A. melsiiiclioliciis n. sp. — Elongate-oval, black, with scarcely any lustre, 
and clothed with a fine, squamifonn pubescence, which is s])arse above and more 
dense on the under surface. Beak rather stout, coarsely punctured, opaque; 
median carina almost reaching to the apex ; scrobes scarcely attaining the eye. 
Anteniife rufo-test;iceous, not very slender; second joint of fnnicle longer than 
the third, joints 3-8 transversely rounded ; clava elongate, dusky. Eyes convex, 
more widely separated above than usual. Head convex, rat her coarsely jiunc- 
tured, with a well marked frontal fovea, and, like the beak, glabrous, excejit a 
few scattered scales. Prothorax conical, a little wider at the base than long^ 
strongly narrowed anteriorly, with the sides very feebly rounded ami scarcely 
constricted at the ajtex ; surface convex, finely, densely and e(jnally ])unctured. 
and sparsely covered with scale-like pubescence, each hair arising from a imnc- 
tnre; base feebly bisinuate. Elytra elongate, rather suddenly and about one- 
fourth wider than the, base of the i)rotborax ; sides almost straight, gradually 
narrowed to apex, which is but slightly dehiscent; strife fine, feebly im]>ressed ; 
punctures small, elongate and rather remote: interspaces flat, or nearly so, and 
having some lustre, remotely punctulate, sparsely pubescent; underside : i^ectus 
ratber densely, abdomen more sparsely punctured, ratber detisely clothed with 
jiale scales. Legs slender, thighs feebly clavate, anterior and middle with a small 
sharp tooth, posterior mutic; tibife slender, rufo-piceous, anterior and middle 
straight, posterior feebly bisinuate and dilated internally at the tip ; tarsi slender, 
paler than the tibiae. Long. 3.2 mm. ; .13 inch. 
i/a/t.— Victoria, Vancouver. 
Two males and one female, collected by my friend, F. H. Wickham, 
at the above locality. The female has the beak more shining and 
slender, tlie hind tihire le.ss hisinmite and scarcely produced at tip. 
<)n account of the squamifonn pubescence, which is readily removed, 
this species might he referred to the sqnamosus group, with which, 
however, it has not the least affinity. Abraded specimens resemble 
more nigrinm, from which it differs by the finely punctured protho- 
rax and shorter fifth ventral segment. 
\. lljivit*oriiis Boh.— Plate vi, fig. 14. — Oval, more robust than sutiirnlis ; 
black, pubescence sparse and moderately coarse above, more dense and squami- 
