150 NORTH AMERICAN 



One specimen, a female, I shook into the beating net from a low 

 bushy tree. 



B. OCCidllllS n. sp. — Form rather robust. Head black, oral organs and 

 first three joints of the antennae Havo-testaceous ; disk of prothorax piceous- 

 black, anterior margin extremely narrowly, sides and base more broadly 

 brownish-testaceous, translucent; elytra brownish-testaceous, very pale, in- 

 definitely clouded with darker castaneous-brown toward tlie apices and along 

 the epipleurae, very translucent ; abdomen dark piceous-brown, darker, 

 nearly black beneath, apices of the segments paler in both cases ; under 

 surface anteriorly piceous-black ; legs pale brownish-testaceous, anterior 

 coxae slightly darker. Head robust, distinctly wider than long, moderately 

 convex, very highly polished ; maxillary palpi moderately slender, second 

 joint very feebly arcuate, about twice as long as wide, third as long as the 

 second, conical, twice as thick at apex as at the base, fourth conical, no 

 longer than the third, very acute, slightly more than twice as long as wide 

 at base ; antennae slightly shorter than the head and prothorax together, 

 first joint scarcely as long as the next two together, second three-fourths 

 longer than wide, nearly cylindrical, as long as the third, third more slender, 

 strongly constricted toward base, joints four* to ten increasing gradually in 

 width, the former slightly longer than wide, seven to ten distinctly wider 

 than long, slightly compressed, nearly equal in length, trapezoidal, eleventh 

 compressed, elongated, oval, not as long as the two preceding together, not 

 paltr at tip, joints four to eleven black, coarsely and longitudinally punctate. 

 Prothorax widest at two-thirds its length from the apex where it is one-fourth 

 wider than long ; sides thence very feebly convergent and very slightly 

 arcuate to the basal angles, which are rather broadly rounded, slightly more 

 convergent and very feebly arcuate anteriorly ; apex transverse and nearly 

 straight, three-fourths as long as the base which is broadly arcuate ; disk 

 rather convex, highly polished, middle apical punctures at a slight distance 

 from the apical margin. Elytra at base as wide as the prothorax ; sides 

 feebly divergent and feebly arcuate, more strongly so toward tb.e apices ; 

 together broadly and very feebly emarginate toward the suture behind ; 

 disk depressed, highly polished, as long as wide, narrowly impressed along 

 the suture ; punctures very fine, setigerous, sutural row of four or five, discal 

 row of five or six, marginal of five or six all somewhat irregularly spaced, 

 along the crest of the raised upper margin of the epipleurae there is a row 

 of very minute slightly oval non-setigerous punctures, seven or eight in 

 number. Abdomen polished, moderately convex ; sides straight and rapidly 

 convergent, basal segnu^it nearly as wide as the contiguous elytra; border 

 strong on the first four ; -surface si»arsely and canalicularly punctate, ira- 

 punctate in the middle toward the base; pubescence coarse and very sparse, 

 iinder surface more densely and coarsely punctate. Legs moderate, posterior 

 slender ; posterior tibiae terminated by seven to eight very unequal spines, 

 corresponding tarsi slightly longer than the tibiae, first joint not as long as 

 the next three together; middle and posterior femora with three or four long 

 slender erect spines near and at the tip, along the inner edge. Prosternum 

 strongly carinate ; anterior coxae strougly globose ; posterior aud lateral 



