NORTH AMERICAN COLEORTERA. 
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terior with a very short iimcro at ajiex ; tarsi moderately long, first 
and second joints about as wide as long, third deeply, but not broadly 
bilobed, fourth joint slender, moderately long; claws slender, simple 
and divergent. 
An aberrant member of the present tribe; the prosternum long 
in front of the coxse, equally pubescent antennal funicle and un- 
armed tibiie are not found in any other. In the long prosternum it 
is somewhat ajiproached by Anth. rvfipes. 
The only species occurring in our fauna has Iieen introduced from 
Europe. 
.4. carpiiii Herbert. Plate vii, fig. 38. — Oval, piceoiis, finely and densely 
punctured, and densely clothed above with short, grayish white pubescence, 
having a somewhat silvery lustre; the beak is densely punctured and opaque 
( *^ ), or less densely ]mnctured, shining ( 9 ) : underside less densely pubescent. 
Antenhse and legs rufous. Long. 2.2 — 2.8 mm.: .09 — .11 inch. 
Canada, Neiv Jersey, Wisconsin, Kansas, N. Illinois. 
ErCI.YFTUS gen . nov. 
Beak slender, aliout as long as head and prothorax, strongly 
curved, neither striate nor carinate; scrobes linear, commencing about 
the middle ( 9 ) and reaching the middle of the eyes. Antenme not 
very slender ; scape moderately long, incrassate at the apex ; fu- 
nicle 7-jointed, pubescent first joint very long, second joint a little 
longer than the third, joints 3-7 transverse, closely articulate, outer 
joints wider ; club obovate, pubescent, first joint large, occupying 
more than one-half of the whole mass, following joints short, some- 
what retracted. Eyes rounded, moderately large, convex. Head 
globose, punctured ; front flattened, not foveate. Prothorax a little 
flattened, wdder than long, slightly narrowed in front, broadly rounded 
on the sides and base ; scutellum small. Elytra elongate, wider at 
the base than the prothorax ; sides feebly rounded and graduallv 
narrowed to apex, which is separately rounded, leaving the pygidium 
exposed, striate and j)unctured ; prosternum short in ’front of the 
coxie, which are conical and more prominent than usual ; mesoster- 
num moderately wide between the coxie, declivous in front and 
rounded behind ; metasternum a little longer than the first ventral 
segment at middle. Ventral segments very unequal, first and second 
moderately long, third and fourth very short, and united scarcely as 
long as the second ; fifth very long ( 9 ), ns long as the second and 
third together; pygidium exposed. Legs slender, femora feeblv 
clavate, mutic ; tibiie slender, straight; articular surface oblique and 
not armed at the apex ; tarsi slender, third joint not broadly bilobed ; 
claivs slender, with a broad, obtuse tooth underneath. 
