NORTH AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 
‘2B1 
moderately stout, tlii^hs clavate, anterior armed witli a small tooth, middle 
scarcely toothed ; tibiai rather short, rohust, anterior and middle slightly curved 
and bieinarginate internally, posterior straight, apical armature moderate: tarsi 
long and slender, first and second joints elongate, third hilohed. with the lobes 
narrow, fourth long; claws feebly divergent not toothed. Long. 2.,5— 2.7 mm.; 
.10— .11 inch. 
Hab. — Arizona, Nevada (Morrison j. 
Five specimens in Dr. Horn’s collection. 
The simple claws, 6-jointed fnnicle and dense scaly vestitnre, 
readily distinguish this species, which, however, differs in several 
points from the other members of this genus; the claws, though 
simple, are less slender and less divergent, the lobes of the third tarsal 
joint strikingly narrow, a character 1 have not observed in any other 
Anthonomid ; the almost concealed pygidinm, and lastly the dense, 
imbricate, scaly vestitnre, present a group wdiich might be considered 
to possess more than specific value. I prefer, however, to leave it in 
the present genus, rather than to establish a new one on what appears 
to me insufficient characters. 
EPHEL.OFS geu. nov. 
Beak shorter than the head and jirothorax and rather robust, 
feebly curved, punctured ; scrobes commencing about the middle of 
the rostrum and extending immediately beneath the eyes. Anteniue 
stout, scape short, strongly incrassate at its distal extremity ; fnnicle 
7-jointed, first joint very stout, second longer than the third, outer 
joints wider and shorter; club loosely articulate. Eyes convex, 
posterior margin free. Head convex ; frontal puncture small. Pro- 
thorax wider than long, narrowed in front, feebly constricted at the 
apex ; base emarginate each side. Elytra wider at the base than the 
prothorax; striie and punctures coarse; ventral segments decreasing 
in length, fifth shorter than the fourth in the male; pyeidium ex- 
posed in both sexes. Legs robust; femora clavate; tibiie stout, 
widened to apex, anterior and middle unguiculate, posterior mucro- 
nate at apex ; tarsi short and robust, first joint scarcel}" longer than 
wide, second wider than long, third broadly bilobed, fourth about as 
long as the first and second together ; claws short, robust, not toothed. 
The type and only representative of this genus is a small, thinly 
pubescent insect, greatly resembling Anth. corvulus Lee., but still 
smaller. 
E. ti’igiittatiis 1 ). sp. Piute vii, fig. 33. — Robust, subovate, black, with some 
lustre. Beak towards the apex, aiiteinia; and legs rufous; almost glabrous, pu- 
