04 NORTH AMERICAN 



small spot very near and usually detached at one-fourth the lengtli from the 

 apex ; epipleurae pale throughout ; beneath piceous-black, paler and fuscous 

 toward the tip of the abdomen ; coxae very dark fuscous ; legs pale flavo- 

 testaceous ; antennae very dark blackish-piceous, two basal joints and third 

 and fourth except their tips, pale testaceous ; palpi very dark, terminal 

 joint paler ; head and pronotum strongly and finely alutaceous ; elytra more 

 strongly polished, finely reticulated. Head rather large, as wide as long ; 

 eyes large and very prominent, margined by a narrow groove interiorly ; 

 interocular surface with two very feeble lateral longitudinal channels ; inter- 

 mediate surface very broadly and feebly convex ; epistoma slightly more than 

 twice as wide as long, suture rather distinct, broadly and feebly emarginate 

 anterioily ; labrum about two and one-half times as wide as long, very feebly 

 sinuate anteriorly, angles very slightly rounded ; antennae slightly longer 

 than the head and prothorax together, slender, second joint three-fourths as 

 long as the third, much shorter than the fifth, joints fou# to six equal and 

 very slightly shorter than the third ; mentum tooth very much wider than 

 long, triangular, rounded at tip, very prominent, and scarcely visibly shorter 

 than the depth of the mental emargination. Prothorax widest very slightly 

 in advance of the middle, where it is distinctly wider than the head and 

 scarcely one-fourth wider than long ; sides strongly arcuate anteriorly, mode- 

 rately convergent and sinuate toward the basal angles, which are slightly 

 obtuse, not rounded ; base broadly arcuate, about five-sixths as long as the 

 apex, which is broadly and feebly emarginate throughout ; apical angles 

 right, narrowly rounded ; disk modeiately convex, edges narrowly and 

 strongly reflexed ; lateral setae, depression, and ridge near the basal angles 

 nearly as in rerniihi, except that the latter is longer and bent outwardly 

 anteriorly. Elytra feebly convex above; sides parallel and feebly arcuate ; 

 humeral angles broadly rounded ; disk rather acutely rounded behind ; four- 

 fifths longer than wide, nearly one-half wider than the pronotum, punctato- 

 striate, intervals nearly fiat ; striae becoming obsolete very near the apices, 

 except the first, seventh, and eighth which are mutually continuous about 

 the tips, and the second which is feebly continued to the tip ; punctures 

 rouncl, rather small, very close in the rows, and very deeply impressed, 

 scutellar stria short, consisting of about seven punctures ; each elytron has 

 a discal puncture at the anterior three-tenths, and another at three-fifths 

 from the base between the second and third striae, much nearer the latter, 

 and also several small setae along the exterior edge. Scntellum small, semi- 

 circularly rounded behind. Legs long and slender; posterior femora with 

 a stout inclined seta on the upper edge near the tip, and two erect slender 

 and moderately short S(*tae along the lower edge almost evenly trisecting it ; 

 lorresponding tibia very slender, longest terminal spine one-half as long as 

 the first tarsal joint, the latter somewhat longer than the next three together. 

 Length 4.4-4.6 mm. 



Atlantic City and Cape ]May, New Jersey, o; Delaware, 1. 



Tliis species resembles the last, but may he distinguished by its less 

 transverse prothorax, more piceons and much less brilliant lustre, and 

 structure of the antennae and head. Tiie surfaces are very strongly 

 alutaceous as in vernula. 



