JOURNAL 



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Vol. XIV. SEPTEMBER, 190b. No. 3 



Class I, HEXAPODA. 



Order II, COLEOPTERA. 



THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF THE 

 GENUS NOTARIS GERM. 



By F. H. Chittenden, Sc.D., 

 Washington, D. C. 



A T otaris, Magazin der Entomologie, vol. II, p. 340, 1S17. 



In 1876, in The Rhynchophora of America North of Mexico (p. 

 163), LeConte placed two Erirhinines, morio Mann, and puncticollis 

 Lee, in the genus Erycus Tourn.,* and they are thus classified in our 

 catalogues and collections, notwithstanding the fact that European 

 systematists have relegated Erycus to a subgenus under Notaris Germar, 

 which latter was proposed in 181 7. 



The genus Notaris was defined by Stephens in 183 i,f and more 

 recently characterized by Faust. \ Briefly, it contains those species 

 of Erirhinini in which the presternum is deeply emarginate on the 

 anterior margin, the femora are moderately clavate and simple, and 

 the postocular lobes are distinct and wide, the posterior tibiae being 

 feebly mucronate. The apical sutures of the second, third and fourth 

 abdominal segments are very prominent. In the male the first and 

 second are shallowly but widely concave and the apex of the fifth 

 feebly. LeConte's characterization of Erycus, with two very small 

 spines or spurs on the posterior tibiae, does not hold for a species 

 which will presently be described. 



* Ann. Soc. Ent. de Belgique, vol. XVII, p. 92, 1874. 

 fills. Brit. Ent., Mandibulata, vol. IV, p. 81, 1831. 

 J Bull. Soc. Imperiale Naturalistes Moscou, 1882, pp. 136-143. 



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