36 Journal New York Entomological Society. ^'^^°^- ^xv. 



monongahclcc occurring in the Monongahela valleys west of the 

 mountains. 



Scaphinotus ridingsii monongahelae n. var. 



Similar to S. ridingsii in the fine complete striation and in the tarsal 

 characters of the male and varying similarly in color, but differing in the 

 form of the thorax, which is broader in front of the middle but equally nar- 

 row at base, allowing the flanks to be partially seen from above ; and differing 

 especially in the form of the elytra, which are shorter, broader, more regu- 

 larly and evenly arcuate at the sides, broadest at middle, and in the punctures 

 of the elytral stris, which are coarser. Length, 17-18 mm. ; width, 7-8 mm., 

 the 2 slightly broader than the (^. 



Type, J*, in my collection, from Uniontown, Pa. Other specimens 

 from the same locality are in the collections of W. S. Fisher, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., G. W. J. Angell, and Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. The width of 

 typical ridingsii is 6-7 mm., and the broadest 2 I have seen is no wider 

 than the d" of monoHgahelcc. 



Since this article was written, Mr. Liebeck has kindly allowed me 

 to examine his Tennessee specimen, which was found by a con- 

 chologist while hunting snails. It also belongs with var. monongahelce. 



A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ANTHOPHILAX 



LEC. (COL.), 



By Edwin C. Van Dyke, 

 Berkeley, Cal. 



The species which I am describing has been represented for some 

 time in my collection, and though a unique, is sufficiently distinct to 

 warrant me in naming it and I do that now in order that Mr. Alan 

 Nicolay, who is reviewing the genus may have all of the species to 

 pass upon. 



Anthophilax nigrolineatus new species. 



Quite robust, somewhat convex ; piceous black except elytra which are 

 yellow with basilar margin, a moderately broad common sutural stripe, another 

 but narrower stripe extending from humeri to apex and joining with the 

 sutural, a narrow marginal bead of a deep black, abdominal segments which 

 have a reddish cast ; head and pronotum covered with a very fine, sparse, and 

 yet distinct, yellowish pubescence, apices of the elytra also slightly pubescent 

 and the under surface clothed with a longer and denser pubescence of the 



