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3. Platynus sulcipennis Horn. Moderately elongate, piceous, shining, sur- 

 face with very faint bronze lustre. Head oval, nearly as wide as the thorax. 

 Antennse piceous, two basal joints paler, longer than half the body. Thorax 

 cordate, a little longer than wide, sides moderately arcuate, base narrower than 

 apex, hind angles rectangular, margin very narrow, wider at base and nearly 

 vertically reflexed, median groove deep, basal margin puuctulate, disc moder- 

 ately convex and smooth. Elytra oval, humeri rounded, sutural angles 

 obtuse, disc deeply striate, striae distinctly punctured in the basal region, the 

 punctures gradually finer to tip, intervals flat, the third with three dorsal 

 punctures. Body beneath smooth ; legs pale testaceous, the apical third of 

 the femora, and sometimes the posterior tibiae, piceous. Length, .28 in., 7 mm. 



This is one of the most remarkable species in our fauna. Its general form 

 recalls that of Anchus pusilhis, while the deep and rather broad striae, with 

 flat intervals, give it an aspect peculiarly its own. The hind angles are rect- 

 angular and rather long, and the margin there is almost vertically reflexed. 

 The basal impressions are therefore long and linear. The tarsi are all 

 grooved at the sides, and there is no medial dorsal groove. 



The species should be placed in Le Conte's group C, near ceneolus and 

 quadratus. 



Occurs in Florida. Collected by Albert Koebele, and given me by Mr. 

 F. G. Schaupp. 



4. Elmis eoncolor Lee. Blackish-piceous, antennae, tibiae and tarsi dark tes- 

 taceous. Head finely and densely punctured. Prothorax as finely but less 

 densely punctured, without striae ; not longer than the basal width, gradually 

 narrowed from base to tip, sides straight ; base margined, oblique each side, 

 and very obtusely angulated at the middle ; all the angles are acute. Scutel 

 smooth, triangular, finely margined. Elytra with moderately impressed, 

 punctured striae, interspaces feebly punctulate and very finely pubescent. 

 Length, 4 mm. 



One specimen. Related to E. vittatus and bivittatus, but stouter, and with- 

 out a trace of yellow elytral stripes. 



Collected in Santa Fe canon, New Mexico, by the Kansas University Sci- 

 entific Expedition for 1880. 



5. Onthophagus coproides Horn. Broadly oval, convex, black, polished. 

 Clypeus nearly semi-circular, vaguely emarginate at middle, separated from 

 the front by a slight ridge in the line of the suture, surface transversely 

 wrinkled. Front coarsely punctate. Vertex with a strongly elevated trans- 

 verse ridge arcuate to the front at middle and on each end elevated into a 

 sharp angle or short horn. Thorax broader than the elytra, anteriorly re- 

 tuse, the vertical portion evenly punctured at middle and sparsely punctured 

 in the concave spaces at the side, disc of tliorax moderately densely punc- 

 tured at middle in front, very obsoletely posteriorly, or almost smooth along 

 the base. Elytra broader than long, each with seven feebly impressed, obso- 

 letely punctured striae, the outer sinuous; intervals slightly convex, sparsely 



