37 6 Coleopterological Noticef^, IV. 



with a round perforate fovea on a line through the posterior margin of the 

 eye.s, beak rather stout, nearly straight, feebly bent toward apex, coarsely, 

 densely punctato-sulcate, equal in length to the head and prothorax in the 

 female, slightly shorter in the male, the antenn?e inserted at apical third, or 

 sliglitly behind this point in the female, the basal joint of the funicle about 

 as long as the next three, second almost as long as the succeeding two, club 

 moderate. Prothorax fully one-half wider than long, the sides parallel, broadly, 

 distinctly arcuate, abruptly, deeply constricted behind the apex, the latter 

 transversely truncate, three-fourths as wide as the base ; punctures not coarse, 

 very deep, dense but not coalescent, with a very fine subcariniform median 

 line. Eljtra at base two-fifths wider than the prothorax, not quite four times 

 as long ; sides subparallel, gradually rounded in apical two-fifths, sutural 

 notch shallow, broadly angulate ; striae feebly impressed, not very coarsely 

 but deeply and closely punctate; intervals nearly three times as wide as the 

 punctures, minutely, rather indistinctly punctate. Abdomen polished, finely, 

 distinctly, not densely punctate, two basal segments blackish, the remainder 

 rufous. Legs rather slender ; femora with a small acute tooth, rather feebler 

 on the intermediate as usual. Length 3.0-4.0 mm. ; width 1.3-1.7 mm. 



New York; Illinois; Iowa; Kansas. 



A common Atlantic form, resembling rufus and vagenotatus, but 

 distinguishable by the small and deep perforate frontal fovea, which 

 is completely obsolete in those species, and also by its larger size 

 and different coloration. 



19 D. TagenotatllS n. sp. — Oblong, feebly convex above, piceous-black ; 

 abdomen toward apex, legs, antennse except the club, pronotum laterally and 

 a narrow suffused stripe near the side of each elytron paler and more or less 

 rufous; integuments confusedly marmorate with small confused condensed 

 patches of short white pointed hairs, less mottled and almost uniformly pubes- 

 cent along the lateral paler stripe. Head very densely, deeply punctate, 

 without frontal fovea, the squamules near the eye abundant but short ; beak 

 moderately stout, broadly, feebly arcuate toward apex, distinctly longer than 

 the head and prothorax, deeply, densely punctato-sulcate, the antennae in the 

 male inserted just behind apical third, the first funicular joint about as long 

 as the next three, second not quite as long as the next two, club rather large, 

 elongate, conoidal and gradually pointed. Prothorax one-half wider than long, 

 parallel and strongly, evenly arcuate on the sides, strongly constricted behind 

 the apex, the latter subtubulate; punctures moderately coarse, very deep and 

 dense ; impunctate line subobsolete. Elytra at base one-third wider than the 

 prothorax, three and one-half times as long, parallel and straiglit at the sides, 

 obtusely parabolic in apical fourth ; sutural notch small, feeble and cuspiform, 

 not triangular ; strial punctures coarse, very deep, rather close-set ; intervals 

 about twice as wide as the punctures, minutely, sparsely punctulate. Abdomen 

 finely, sparsely punctate. Legs long; tooth of the anterior femora large, rect- 

 angular. Length 3.6 mm. ; width 1.5 mm. 



