June, I9II.] Schaeffer: New Coleoptera. 119 



Barber was an apparently new species of this genus from Jamaica, 

 West Indies. 



Phanocerus hubbardi, new species. 



Olilong-elongate, fuscous, prothorax and elytra densely clotted with short 

 pubescence. Prothorax narrowing from slightly l.ehind middle to apex, sides 

 sinuate behind middle : hind angles acute ; front angles rounded ; disk slightly 

 convex, with faint longitudinal median impression ; at middle of base two, 

 round punctures and above this an elongate puncture ; on each side near the 

 lateral margin a short, straight, linear impression ; the usual subapical lateral 

 impression feeble. Elytra wider than the prothorax ; punctures of stride in 

 about apical half small and very faint. Length 2.75 mm. 



Jamaica, West Indies (H. G. Hubbard), in the collection of the 

 U. S. Nat. Museum. 



This species resembles P. clavicornis Sharp very closely but is 

 slightly smaller, less convex, thorax with feeble subapical lateral 

 impression and the series of elytral punctures almost obliterated in 

 about apical half. 



Elsianus texanus, new species. 



Elongate, black, legs, antenna, palpi and last abdominal segment rufous, 

 surface clothed sparsely with short, stiff, recumbent pale hairs. Head obso- 

 letely granulate. Prothorax slightly wider than long ; sides slightly arcuate 

 and feebly sinuate before the hind angles ; apex slightly narrower than base ; 

 apical margin broadly arcuate, deeply sinuate on each side in front of eyes, 

 apical angles produced, lateral margin crenate ; basal margin bisinuate ; slightly 

 emarginate before the scutellum ; surface granulate, the granules very tine 

 and obsolete near apex ; median longitudinal line distinctly impressed in basal 

 half : lateral carina almost entire. Scutellum small, rounded, acute at apex, 

 sparsely granulate. Elytra at base slightly wider than the thorax at base ; 

 about one-third longer than wide at base ; lateral margin crenate ; disc with 

 distinctly impressed strise, striae with coarse, shallow punctures, the lateral 

 strise faintly impressed, intervals feebly convex, with small, not closely placed 

 granules, which are obsolete at middle of disk. Underside somewhat densely 

 covered with rather larger granules than upperside ; laterally densely clothed 

 with short, pale, silken pubescence. Front and middle tibiae inside with an 

 elongate, densely pubescent space. Length 4.75 mm. 



Devil's River, Texas. 



A single specimen in the collection of the U. S. National Museum. 



This species is allied to robustus Sharp from Guatemala, but 

 seems to differ in being black, of narrower form, the striae with large 

 punctures and the surface clothed sparsely with short, stiff, recum- 

 bent hairs. 



