Coleopterological Notices, IV. SfiS 



Larger species, broader, more depressed, pale ochreous-testaceous, the head 

 and beak piceous-black, also with a feeble indefinite subsutiiral cloud on 

 each elytron from before the middle nearly to the apex ...21 fusciceps 

 Coloration dark. 



Pronotum very coarsely, deeply punctate ; coloration nearly uniform. 



22 brevicollis 



Pronotum finely, densely punctate, paler along the base and apex ; each 



elytron with a blackish cloud in the middle toward base and another 



toward apex 23 Sll1)sigiiatlis 



13 — Beak pale, blackish toward apex 24 lougullis 



14 — Pronotum with a broad densely squamosa vitta at each side. 



25 sqnamosus 

 Pronotum with four median spots forming a transverse rectangle, the two 

 anterior continued each feebly to the apex, the two posterior to the base, 

 also with a small spot at each side between the rectangle and the lateral 

 margin, the spots composed of long robust hairs ; elytral vestiture s(iuanii- 

 form and strongly marmorate 26 niarilioreiis 



There are two other species, apparently belonging to this genus 

 and recently described b}^ Dietz (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XVIII, 

 pp. 262, 265)^ under the names Ah/codes dubius and EUeschus 

 angustatus. I have not studied the types of these species, but 

 dubius seems to be allied to the normal eastern forms such as 

 indifferens ; angustatus is almost certainly closel}- related to sqaa- 

 mosus, a small narrow species, with the femoral teeth very small, 

 the anterior alone distinct. 



In regard to Erirhinus lutulentus and rutilus of Boheman, but 

 little can be stated positively. The description of the latter seems 

 to apply very well, however, to Anthonomus nubilus Lee, while 

 £. lutulentus may possibly be the same as Anchodemus angustus 

 Lee. 



It is more than probable that the true affinities of EUeschus lie 

 strongly in the direction of Dorytomus, and that the toothed claws 

 form an exception of no more relative importance than the simple 

 claws of certain of the Anthonomini. It will in fact be found 



• It should be stated in passing, that the genus Euclyptus of Dietz (1. c. p. 

 271) seems to be identical with Phyllotrox Sch. This genus is widely distri- 

 buted throughout North America and at least the northern part of South A merica, 

 also in the intervening islands. To tlie nine species mentioned in the Munich 

 Catalogue, should be added nubifer a.nd ferriK/ineus Lee, and tesUiceus Dietz; 

 there are several other species in my cabinet still undescribed. Phyllotrox is 

 one of the characteristically American genera of true Erirhinini, and is decidedly 

 out of place in the Anthonomini. 



An.vals N. Y. Acad. Sci., VI, Aug. 18J2.— 25 



