194 NORTH AMERICAN 



BRACIIYTARSUS Scli. 



B. paillllllis n. sp. — Form short and stout, oval ; pubescence short, 

 very coarse and dense, piceous-browu mottled with cinereous of which a long 

 narrow sutural spot at the base of the elytra is the most conspicuous, pubes- 

 cence of under surface testaceous ; integuments deep black throughout ; 

 antennae pale testaceous throughout, femora piceous-black, tibiae fusco- 

 testaceous, tarsi slightly darker. Head and beak together two-thirds longer 

 than wide, slightly inllexed; surface moderately convex; punctures vario- 

 late, round, somewhat scabrous, very indistinct and excessively shallow ; 

 eyes moderate in size, rather prominent ; beak beginning at the eyes, flat, 

 wider than long, trapezoidal, limited laterally by the straight elevated mar- 

 gins ; labrum small, wider than long, broadly rounded anteriorly, slightly 

 paler in color ; antennae slender, about as long as the bead, third joint much 

 longer than the fourth, about as long as the second. Prothorax from above 

 widest at the base where it is about one-sixth wider than long ; sides rather 

 strongly convergent to tlie apex near which they are almost straight, feebly 

 arcuate in the middle and distinctly siuuatfe for a short distance in front of 

 the basal angles which are acute and quite prominent ; apex broadly arcuate, 

 about one-half as long as the base; disk very convex, impressed along the 

 somewhat reflexed and acute basal ridge, very coarsely moderately closely 

 and somewhat irregularly punctate, punctures round, variolate, and very 

 >ihaHow ; basal ridge obtusely and posteriorly angulate in the middle, sides 

 straight and posteriorly flexed near the basal angles, properly terminating 

 at the latter. Elytra at Ijase equal in width to the pronotum ; sides parallel 

 and feebly arcuate for two-thirds the length from the base, thence more con- 

 vergent, conjointly abruptly and obtusely rounded behind : disk moderately 

 convex, two-fifths longer than wide and about two-thirds longer than the 

 pronotum ; striae narrow, deeply impressed, coarsely but not very distinctly 

 punctate, intervals slightly convex, finely ruguloso-punctate. Scutellum 

 minute, oval, slightly transverse. Pygidium sliglitly wider than long, feebly 

 lonvex, coarsely and very feebly punctate. Abdominal segments closely and 

 rather feebly punctate, punctures of unequal sizes. Legs rather robust ; 

 tibiae sparsely fimbriate at tip with short stiff setae ; posterior tarsi equal in 

 length to the tibiae, first and second joints equal in length, the latter slightly 

 more densely pubescent, fourth slightly longer and thinner, narrow at base, 

 third one-half as long as the second, deeply bilobed, densely pubescent be- 

 neatli ; claws moderate;, deeply cleft at the .sides. Length 1.3-l.tS mm. 



Milford, Delaware, 4. 



The smallest species described troni our territories and somewhat 

 allied to to)))entosiiSj from which it ditlers in its smaller size and 

 mottled elytra; the basal carina properly terminates at the basal 

 angles which are slightly callous, but the lateral edges of the i)ro- 

 notiim are acute and well marked tor a very short distance ante- 

 riorly, much less however than one-third the pronotal length. The 

 posterior margin of each elytron is distinctly sinuate near the interior 

 apical angle, causing the latter to have the form of a very small acute 

 cusp. 



