C12 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



broadly rounded ; disk with fine deep and abrupt stria, the intervals flat, 

 from two to three times as wide as the grooves, coarsely confusedly and moder- 

 ately closely punctured. Prosternum Tiot impressed, with a small transverse 

 stria at the middle behind the apical margin, the coxae separated by less than 

 one-fifth of their own width. Length 3.0 mm.; width 1.15 mm. 



Te.xas. 



The sex of the sin<i;le specimen before nie is not determinablt; 

 with certainty. It is somewhat allied to decipiens, but differs in 

 its much narrower and more elong-ate-oval form and in the long 

 slender scales of the elytra. 



4 IViceiltruS decipiens Lee. — Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 313 (Cen- 

 trinus). 



Oblong'-oval, convex, moderately shining-, black, the legs rufous ; 

 vestiture white, consisting of sparse slender squamules on the pro- 

 notnm, which become gradually broader and denser toward the sides 

 especially near the base; on the elytra the scales are large, elongate- 

 oval, conspicuous and unevenl}^ arranged in from one to two rows 

 on each interval, very white and dense beneath. Beak moderately 

 stout, not distinctly thicker toward base, evenly arcuate, as long as 

 the prothorax in the male and but slightly longer and thinner in the 

 female, densely punctured and rugulose laterally, but not as com- 

 pres.sed as in canus; antennae inserted at the middle in the female 

 or just beyond in the male, the first funicular joint as long as the 

 next three, still longer in the female, the second not as long as the 

 third and fourth ; club rather small. Prothorax full}' one-third 

 wider than long, the sides parallel and feebly arcuate in basal two- 

 thirds, then broadly rounded and convergent, the apical constriction 

 obsolete ; disk not very coarsely but deeply and densely punctate, 

 the median line almost completely obsolete but sometimes visible as 

 a fine cariniform line. Scutellum small, densely squamose. El3^tra 

 but very slightly wider than the prothorax, nearly four-fifths longer 

 than the latter, somewhat narrowly hemi-elliptical in form, the 

 humeri but slightly prominent ; disk with deep abrupt and some- 

 what coarse grooves, the intervals flat, two to three times as wide 

 as the grooves, rather finely, confusedlj^ not very densely but sub- 

 rugosely punctured. Prosternum feebly and broadly impressed along 

 the middle, the coxae separated by about one-fourth of their own 

 width. Length 2.8-3.7 mm.; width 1.25-1.6 mm. 



Florida (Cedar Keys and Haw Creek). This species bears a 

 deceptive resemblance to canus, but differs greatly in its less robust 



