Coleopterological Notices, III. 211 



Indiana? 



A single female from the Levette cabinet without definite indica- 

 tion of locality, but probably taken in or near that which is above 

 suggested. The species is quite different from any other which I 

 have seen, although somewhat allied to julichi; it may however be 

 easily distinguished from the latter by its narrower, more convex 

 form, the elytra being suljequal in width to the prothorax, and by 

 the very small basal impression of the pronotum. 



28 1,. fossils Lee— Proc. Am. Phil., Soc, XV, p. 416. 



Florida (Enterprise), Mr. Schwarz — Cab. LeConte. The original 

 male type is the only representative known to me. The species is 

 one of a small group of species of peculiar habitus and apparently 

 confined to the peninsula of Florida, although it is quite possible 

 that others exist in Cuba, from which region this peculiar type 

 may have formerly extended northward. The beak is short, 

 scarcely as long as the prothorax, feebly arcuate, more or less 

 flattened above and very densely punctured, without trace of a 

 median impunctate line ; the prothorax is distinctly wider than 

 long, with a rather large and very deep basal impression which 

 does not extend at all beyond basal third. Length 8.4 mm. ; 

 width 2.6 mm. 



29 L,, obesilltlS 11. sp. — Rather robust, somewhat flattened above, ellipti- 

 cal, very strongly shining, black throughout, the antennae rufescent toward 

 base ; vestiture very short, sparse, plurabeo-ciuereous, squamiform, not appreci- 

 ably denser toward the sides of the body except very slightly so on the flanks of 

 the pronotum, almost evenly distributed on the elytra, the nucleated patches 

 being ill-defined, extremely small and remotely dispersed, the scales subre- 

 cumbent and bent downward toward their apices. Head and beak rather 

 finely but strongly, somewhat densely punctate, with a feeble transverse 

 impression between the eyes and a small deep interocular fovea ; interan- 

 tennal fovea entirely obsolete ; beak robust, feebly arcuate, slightly flattened, 

 not quite as long as the prothorax, with a narrow and well-defined median 

 impunctate line ; anteniue inserted near apical third. Prothorax conical, 

 nearly one-fourth wider than long, the apex truncate, scarcely more than 

 one-half as wide as the base, the latter strongly, rather narrowly and abruptly 

 cusped in the middle ; sides strongly convergent from base to apex, distinctly, 

 almost evenly arcuate throughout ; disk with a large deep and somewhat 

 irregular basal impression, which does not extend beyond the middle, finely 

 but strongly, rather closely punctulate and with very sparse punctures which, 

 although decidedly coarser, are still fine. Elytra scarcely more than twice as 

 long as wide, fully three times as long as the prothorax, and, in the middle, 



