142 Journal New ^I'ork Entomological Society. [Voi. viii. 



Elytra tinely and more uniformly variegated with black, cinereous and fulvous hairs 

 throughout ; body narrowly and evenly ellipsoidal, rather small in size. Length 

 5.0-6.7 mm.; width 2.35-3.0 mm. Idaho (Coeur d'Alene), Nevada (Reno) and 

 California (San Francisco and Monterey) talpinus Maim. 



7 — Elytra black, rufo-piceous toward the humeri, where there is a small jjost-humeral 

 area of fulvous pubescence, elsewhere marmorate subtransversely with black and 

 cinereous pubescence ; body rather small and stout, the abdomen very densely 

 clothed with white hairs, the black marginal spots very small ; male witli the 

 third and fourth segments foveolate. Eength 6.5-6.9 nun.; width 2.9-3.25 mm. 

 Arizona ; \^iiiucoreiis Lee. ] carnivorus Fabr. 



Elytra uniform in color and uniformly clothed with a nii.xture of black and jialer 

 hairs ; fourth ventral alone foveolate in the male, at least in ful, iinn 8 



8 — Ellytra piceous, uniformly and rather sparsely clothed with a mixture of black and 

 fulvo-cinereous hairs in almost equal proportions, dense whitish pubescence to- 

 ward the sides of the pronotum not maculate at base ; body elongate. Length 

 5. 8-8. 9 mm.; width 2.4-3 ^ '^^"^- Indiana, Florida, California and Guadalupe 

 Island VUlpinuS Fabr. 



Elytra black, sparsely clothed with black hairs, among which longer yeliowish-ciner- 

 eous hairs are uniformly but sparsely intermingled ; densely pubescent lateral area 

 of the pronotum with a small rounded dark spot at base ; body stouter and more 

 oval. Length 7.5-8.5 mm.; width 3.5-3.75 mm. New Jersey, Virginia ( Fort 

 Monroe) and Iowa (Keokuk) frischi /w/i,''. 



9 — Pubescence throughout above and on the abdomen uniform and yellowish- cinere- 

 ous, somewhat sparse, not concealing the sculpture, the abdomen without trace 

 of quasi-denuded dark spots at any part; body very elongate, subparallel, the pro- 

 notum with two pronounced basal impressions and the el_\tra with feebly im- 

 pressed longitudinal lines extending almost to the base. Length 8.9 mm.; width 

 width 3.6 mm. Indiana elongatus Let. 



Pubescence, thoracic impressions and elytral lines as in donga/ us, the vestiture of the 

 abdomen even less conspicuous and dark fulvous in color, with two marginal and 

 two discal series of rounded subdenuded spots, the two male foveolae small ; legs 

 not annulated ; body shorter and less parallelo-subcylindric than in t'hii>ga/iis. 

 Length 7.5 mm.; width ^.t^ mm. Florida (Key West) cadaverinus Fabr. 



10 — Elytra densely cinereo-pubescent in basal two-fifths or more, each with three 

 small nigro-pubescent points in transverse posteriorlv arcuate series at or near 

 basal fourth ; male with two ventral foveolas 11 



Elytra black, j^ale and fulvo-puljescent at base for a short distance, not maculate ; 

 male with two ventral foveoke 12 



Elytra piceous, uniform in color and vestiture throughout ; male with a single ventral 

 foveola on the fourth segment as in vulpiuns 1 3 



II — Pronotum closely punctured throughout and uniformly clothed with blackish 

 hairs, with small clusters of yellowish-cinereous hairs interspersed ; basal pubes- 

 cent area of the elytra not extending to the middle and sharply delimited, the 

 hairs of the remainder being entirely black. Length 6.8-7.7 mm.; width 2.75- 

 3.4 mm. United States and Europe lardarius Linn. 



Pronotum tmelyand .sparsely punctured toward the middle, clothed uniformly through- 

 out with longer fulvo-cinereous pubescence, the elytra rufo-piceous throughout, 



