FREDERICK BLANCHARD 
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club is small with long irregular Hairs. The tenth joint is trans- 
verse and it is likely that the male will have a much broader 
club. In size and in the minute punctuation this resembles 
Throscus parvulus. If this be a female, the male is liable to be 
very minute indeed. 
Brownsville, Texas (Wickham). 
10. Aulonothroscus distans new species 
Elongate, narrowed behind, piceous browTi with the usual finer and coarser 
pubescence, closely and minutely punctulate above and below and with coarse, 
sparser punctures. Head bicarinate, the carinae somewhat variable in promi- 
nence, widely separated on the occiput, thence narrowing to about one-half 
at the clypeus, on which they feebly diverge; surface finely and sparsely punc- 
tate; eyes moderate, alike in both sexes, with a small, but distinct, rounded 
emargination, and bounded on the inner side by a deep groove from the emar- 
gination to the upper margin. Antennae with the club feebly pectinate, con- 
tractile and pubescent in the female, much more strongly so in the male and 
clothed with conspicuous erect pubescence. Thorax nearly twice as wide at 
base as long in the male, and as wide as or a little wider than the base of the 
elytra, sides parallel at base, thence obliquely narrowed to the apex, which is 
about equal in width to the length at the middle. In the female the thorax 
is a httle narrower and more arcuate from base to apex, side margin reaching 
the anterior fourth, carina of hind angles short and fine, about one-fourth the 
length of the margin, surface rather convex, a small impression at base each 
side of the scutellum, thence to the carina the base is somewhat flattened. 
Elytral punctures rather fine and uniform, about two diameters apart; striae 
well defined, with moderately closely placed, rounded punctures, which as weU 
as those of the intervals are about the same as the thoracic ones; sutural in- 
terval with a single series of punctures; second, third and fourth irregularly 
double at base, becoming single posteriorly; outer intervals with single series, 
the marginal stria much deeper and wider. Beneath minutely punctulate and 
pubescent; prosternal striae parallel, feebly divergent anteriorly, interval 
smooth, finely, very sparsely punctulate at base, less finely and sparsely at 
apex; flanks rather coarsely variolate punctate; metasternum and abdomen 
rather finely, not closely punctate. Length 2.6 to 3 mm. 
The punctuation is variable, being much finer and sparser in 
some examples. The extreme measurements are both from 
females. 
Marion, Massachusetts (1 9, Bowditch); Central New York 
(D. B. Young), (Dr. Blaisdell, 19); Black Mountains, North 
Carolina (2 cT, 1 9, Beutenm tiller). 
1 1 . Aulonothroscus pugnax Horn 
[Mr. Blanchard’s manuscript contains no description of this 
species, of which he had seen no specimens. The original de- 
TRANS. AM. KNT, SOC., XLIIl. 
