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ocular) a line between the eyes; with rather indefinite strigulose 

 ground sculpture. Pronotum as wide as long, base rounded with 

 angles scarcely discernible, distinctly narrowed in front; with two 

 discal series of four punctures, the posterior more distant, and with 

 about four lateral punctures; ground sculpture as on head. Elytra 

 without distinct punctures but with posteriorly directed setae arising 

 from very small submuricate punctures on surface irregularities. 

 Abdomen sparsely and moderately finely subnuiricately punctured; 

 M ith scarcely a trace of ground sculpture. Male^ eighth sternite with 

 a large triangular emargination a little wider than deep and pre- 

 ceded by a smooth triangular depression. Female^ eighth sternite 

 rounded. Length, 7 mm. 



Type locality. — Sweden. Of alpigradus., Auvergne, France; of 

 niten.^^ Brunswick, Germany; of punctiventfis, Suffolk, England; of 

 unicolor, England; of aterrhmis (Great Britain) ; of piceicoxis, not 

 recorded; of intaminatus and lituratus., England; of opacus^ Bruns- 

 wick, Germany; of fuscicoxU^ north Italy; of incom/pletiis, Tiflis, 

 Caucasus; of costatus, Sardinia; of sctdatus, Gabon, West Africa; of 

 bij[nirstulatus, Brunswick, Germany ; of himacnlatus^ England. 



Types. — In Naturhistisk Riksmuseum, Stockholm. Of piceicoxis., 

 in IVIuseo Entomologicae "Pietro Rossi," Duino; of intaminatus., 

 lituratiis, imicolo)\ and puiwtiventris., in British Museum, London ; of 

 aterriinus., probably in the British JMuseum; of nitens and hipiistu- 

 latus^ in Zoological University Museum, Breslau; of opacus., prob- 

 ably in Zoologische Museum, Berlin; of alpigrcudus., possibly in 

 Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Lyon; of incompletus., presumably in 

 Zoologische Kabinett dem Polytechnic Institut, Kiev; of fuscicoxis, 

 probably in collection of Otto Scheerpeltz; of costatus, in Zoological 

 University Museum, Turin ; of seutatus, in Naturhistorische Museum, 

 Wien; of himaculatus^ unknown. 



Records. — The following are the records known to me : 



Cuba: (Erichson, 1840). 



St. John: (Erichson, 1840). 



St. Vincent: (Erichson, 1840). 



North America: North AtlaxNtic States to Washington and California (Horn, 

 1884). 



Europe: Cyprus, Syria, Asia Minor, Caucasus, England (Erichson, 1840; 

 Kraatz, 1857; Fauvel, 1872; Mulsant and Rey, 1875; Ganglbauer, 1895; 

 Stephens, 1832). 



Africa: Cape of Good Hope, Rarbarie, Abyssinia, Teneriffe, Caffraria (Erich- 

 son, 1S40; Fauve], 1872; Rolieman, 1848). 



Asia: Siberia, Japan, Burma (Fauvel, 1872; Cameron, 1932). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen no examples from the West 

 Indies. The description was drawn from a North American example 

 in the Casey collection. 



