222 AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 



COCCINELLID^. 



Hyperawpis liieinatosticta n. sp. — Broadly oblong-oval, black; bead, 

 front margin of prothorax very narrowly, and side margin more broadly, yellow ; 

 elytra with median and snbapical spot — tlie latter sometimes wanting — red. The 

 discal spot is rounded or broadly oval and is almost exactly at the middle of the 

 length, but is nearer the suture than the side margin, the distance from the 

 suture being less, and that from the margin greater than its own width. The 

 subapical spot is smaller, nearly equally distant from the suture and apex. Sides 

 of ventral segments narrowly yellow ; legs black in the female, the front ones in 

 great part pale in the male. Length 3-3.5 mm. ; width 2.2-2.4 mm. 



Santa Fe. Three examples taken by Dr. Fenyes. 



This species resembles a large signata, but the latter i.s relatively 

 broader and more rounded, rather more coarsely punctured, and 

 with the median spot slightly more anterior in position and nearer 

 the margin than the suture. 



CUCUJIDiE. 



IVartheciiiS moiiticola n. sp. — Head, including the mandibles, dis- 

 tinctly longer than wide and subequal in length to the prothorax ; surface feebly 

 shining and minutely sparsely puuctulate, occiput very broadly feebly impressed 

 with a fine line at middle half the length of the head; supraorbital ridges ex- 

 tending behind the eye a distance which is obviously less than the length of the 

 eye; the distance from the eye to the nuchal constriction barely equal to the 

 diameter of the eye. Antennae reaching fully to the middle of the prothorax, 

 the basal joint short and stout, but little longer than wide; median process of 

 epistoma narrowly, parabolic, the apex subtruncate. Prothorax of the usual 

 form, surface dull and sparsely very finely punctulate, the punctures nearly even 

 in size and distribution ; disk vaguely broadly impressed along the median line. 

 Elytra distinctly longer than the head and thorax together, without visible 

 sculpture other than the fine costse. Length 2.5 mm. 



Described from a single specimen taken by Mr. Knaus at Cloud- 

 croft (9000 ft.). This species is, by the form of the epistoma, allied 

 to breviceps Casey and should precede that species in the table given 

 by Casey— Annals N. Y. Acad. Sci., V, 1890, p. 322. The larger 

 size, longer head, and relatively longer elytra of the present species 

 should easily distinguish it, 



Nai'tliecius Miriaticeps n. sp.^Head without the mandibles equal in 

 length to the prothorax and plainly longer than wide; epistomal process bifid; 

 froTit finely punctate, the entire surface posterior to the base of the antenna? 

 rather strongly longitudinally strigose ; occiput not at all impressed ; supraorbital 

 ridge extending behind the eye a distance scarcely equal to the diameter of the 

 latter; nuchal constriction feeble, distant from the eye about one-third more 

 than its diameter. Antennte nearly attaining the middle of the prothorax, basal 

 joint much longer than wide. Prothorax narrowed behind as usual, disc a little 



