108 Coleojitei^oloriical Notices, III. 



throughout, rather coarsely, deeply punctate, the punctures round, perforate 

 and generally very narrowly separated, the interstices dull, a narrow imper- 

 fect median line sometimes impunctate toward base. Elytra three times as 

 long as the prothorax, and, at the middle, from one-third to one-half wider, 

 gradually, rather acutely ogival at apex, the sides arcuate and continuous 

 with those of the prothorax ; disk finely, very densely punctate, with feebly 

 impressed strife of slightly larger, approximate punctures. Under surface 

 polished, finely, sparsely punctate, the prosternum more densely, coarsely 

 so but not dull. Legs moderate, the posterior tarsi rather robust, with the 

 basal joint a little shorter than the remainder. Length 5.0-6.0 mm. ; width 

 2.0-2.4 mm. 



Florida ; Texas ; Ohio. 



The color is frequently piceous-black throughout above, the legs 

 always remaining pale. Tlie eyes in sixteen of the seventeen speci- 

 mens before me are perfectly uniform, and sejiarated by two-thirds 

 of their own width, but in the remaining specimen, which appa- 

 rently does not differ in any other particular, they are smaller and 

 separated by their full width; this specimen singularly enough is a 

 male, and must be regarded as an accidental aberration. 



A few specimens in the cabinet of Mr. Jiilich are labeled Ohio, 

 and are said to have been collected by Mr. Dury. 



27 H. rulicollis Champ. — Biol. Cent.-Amer., Coleopt., IV, Pt. i, p. 438. 

 — Elongate-oval, moderately convex, dull ; elytra and abdomen blackish, 

 remainder dark rufo-ferruginous ; antennse and legs concolorous ; pubescence 

 rather short and coarse, very dense, i^ale, and, on the elytra, rather conspicu- 

 ous. Head moderate, rather strongly, very densely punctate and dull ; eyes 

 small, separated by distinctly more than their width ; antennse moderately 

 stout, nearly two-fifths as long as the body, intermediate joints nearly one- 

 half longer than wide, third and fourth subequal. Prothorax one-half wider 

 than long ; apex broadly, distinctly arcuate, about three-fourths as wide as the 

 base, the latter transverse, the sinuations narrow and feeble ; sides broadly 

 arcuate, usually more or less parallel from the basal angles and then more 

 strongly rounded into the apex ; basal angles right, not rounded ; disk not at 

 all impressed, rather strongly, excessively densely punctured and completely 

 dull, the basal fovesB obsolete. Elytra three times as long as the prothorax, 

 and, at the middle, nearly one-third wider, rather gradually and acutely 

 ogival at apex ; sides feebly arcuate, generally continuous with those of the 

 prothorax ; disk finely, rather feebly, very densely punctate, the interstices 

 very minutely, strongly granulato-reticulate and alutaceous, the striae ex- 

 tremely fine, feebly impressed and very finely, inconspicuously punctured. 

 Under surface punctured nearly as in punctatissimus. Posterior tarsi very 

 short, the basal joint much shorter than the remainder. Length 4.7—5.8 mm. ; 

 width 2.0-2.2 mm. 



