Coleopterological Notices, IV. 45T 



12 T. punctata Casey. — Cont. Desc. Syst. Col. N. A., I, p. 57. 



Elong-ate-oval, very strongly convex, polished, black with a strong- 

 bronzy lustre, glabrous. Head rather dull, finely, sparsely punc- 

 tate, with a small vertical fovea, the impression between the head 

 and beak deep but broadly rounded. Prothorax about as long' as 

 wide, the sides almost straight and evenly convergent from base 

 to apex, but arcuate for a short distance in the middle; apex fully 

 three-fourths as wide as the base, strongly arcuate ; disk almost 

 imi)unctate, the upper portion tow^ard base with excessively minute 

 and subobsolete sparse punctures; a transverse area just behind the 

 apex is also more distinctly and confusedly punctate, the punctures 

 becoming large and deep in a still narrower and more apical line 

 on the flanks; remainder of the sides without distinct punctures. 

 Elytra at base nearly one-third wider than the prothorax, two and 

 one-half times as long, gradually ogival behind, the sides becoming 

 subparallel in basal half; disk with unimpressed series of coarse, 

 deep, very remote punctures, not extending behind the middle. 

 Length 2.5-3.9 mm.; width 0.95-1.7 mm. 



New York (Long Island) and Florida. A polished species re- 

 sembling ^rfia, but larger, relatively somew^hat narrower, with more 

 elongate and more gradually narrowed elytra ; it may always be 

 easily recognized by the peculiar punctuation of the prothorax. The 

 elytral punctures, as in serea, vary greatly in size and depth, and, 

 in one very small depauperate specimen from Florida, become nearly 

 obsolete. 



PHYRDENUS Lee. 



In this genus the anterior coxa? are only moderately separated, 

 the excavation in the mesosternum being much wider, surrounded 

 by a strongly elevated acute edge and not extending beyond the 

 middle of the intermediate coxae ; the beak is strongly compressed 

 toward base and dilated and flattened toward apex, as might be 

 inferred from the relationship of the anterior coxal distance and 

 wndth of the mesosternal sulcus. The two species in my cabinet 

 may be thus distinguished : — 



Second abdominal segment nearly as long as the next two ; basal segment 

 abruptly much more coarsely and almost uniformly punctate ; median 

 sulcus of the pronotum equal in width throughout, deep but not very 

 wide, the pronotal sculpture coarse lindattis Lee. 



