ICO Coleopterological Notices, III. 



Mule. — Head somewhat concave between the eyes, rather coarsely, sparsely 

 and unevenly punctate ; eyes somewhat large, separated by three-fourths of 

 their own width ; antennse moderately stout and very feebly compressed, two- 

 thirds as long as the body, the joints distinctly more than twice as long as 

 wide, the third one-half as long as the fourth. Prothorax scarcely one-half 

 wider than long, slightly wider at anterior third than at base, the sides from 

 that point feebly convergent and straight to the basal angles, the latter right 

 and narrowly rounded ; base transverse and straight in middle half, feebly 

 posteriorly oblique laterally ; apex truncate, two-thirds as wide as the base, 

 the sides in apical third rather strongly convergent and feebly arcuate ; disk 

 rather finely, sparsely, somewhat unevenly punctate, with an impunctate 

 median line ; basal fovea? small but deep and very conspicuous. Elytra two- 

 fifths wider than the prothorax and rather more than four times as long ; sides 

 parallel ; humeri rather broadly exposed at base ; disk punctate and striate as 

 in concolor. Abdomen minutely and very sparsely punctate throughout. Legs 

 somewhat short; all the (arsi distinctly shorter than the tibiae, the anterior 

 sultililated, the basal joint of the posterior two-thirds as long as the remainder. 

 Fifth ventral segment but slightly longer than the fourth ; broadly rounded 

 behind, the genital armature broadly sinuato-truncate at a]3ex. Length 7.3 

 mm. ; width 2.5 mm. 



New York. 



The specimen before me is labeled as above, but there is more 

 or less doul)t concerning such a northern habitat. The species is 

 quite distinct from the others in the decidedly larger eyes of the 

 male, and the sides of the prothorax convergent and straight from 

 before the middle to the base, also in its minute but unusually deep 

 Ijasal fovete of the pronotum. 



CAPNOCHROA Lee. 



This is also an exclusively American genus, and is represented in 

 our fauna as far as known by a single large and interesting species. 

 It is not very closely related to Cistela, although the mandibles 

 are notched at apex and subequally bilobed as in that genus. The 

 sexual characters differ greatly, and the anterior tarsi instead of 

 being strongly compressed and distorted — when modified at all in 

 the male — are here long and slender, and feebly flattened or just visi- 

 bly dilated, with the basal joint as long as the next two together, in 

 this character approaching Andrimus (Cteniopus Lee.) and Tedinus. 



In the great development of the lobes of the male genital arma- 

 ture, it resembles Androchirus and differs completely from Andri- 

 mus. The unusually composite nature of Capnochroa will therefore 

 be recoo-nized at once. 



