638 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



Carolina, New York, Indiana, Nebraska and Colorado, some being 

 smaller, others larger, some with the male prosternal spines short, 

 others so long as to nearly attain the anterior margin. The want 

 of any accurate definition of the species deters me, however, from 

 further investigation of these forms, although from the constantly 

 small size and less developed aute-coxal processes of several good 

 series, collected in definite localities, it is possible that two or three 

 species or subspecies may be commingled. This species is said to 

 occur in California (Mann. Bull. Mosc, 1843, 2d, 293), but I have 

 not seen any specimens from that region. 



14 lyinmobaris eliena n. sp. — Oblong-oval, moderately convex, pol- 

 ished, black throngliout ; vestiture above and beneath consisting of small and 

 Very sparse slender white squamules, much less conspicuous than in concinna, 

 but more so than in confinis, unevenly sublineate on the elytra. Head minutely, 

 scarcely visibly punctate, the constriction feeble but distinct, caused by a 

 slight gibbosity at the base of the beak, the latter very slender, evenly cylin- 

 drical, almost straight, much longer than the head and prothorax, shining, 

 moderately punctured ; antennse inserted scarcely at all beyond the middle, 

 slender throughout, the basal joint of the funicle as long as the next three, 

 the second nearly two-thirds as long as the first and equal to the next two, 

 the club very slender, fusiform, not abrupt, densely, coarsely pubescent and 

 rather longer than the preceding four joints combined, the basal joint com- 

 posing nearly one-half of the whole. Prothorax nearly one-third wider than 

 long, the sides just visibly convergent from the base to the distinct apical 

 constriction, and broadly, evenly arcuate ; apex one-half as wide as the base, 

 the latter transverse, the median lobe small and feeble ; mes-epimera strongly 

 exposed from above ; disk rather finely, not deeply and somewhat sparsely 

 punctate, the impunctate line distinct. Scutellum small, quadrate. Elytra 

 oblong, one-third longer than wide, distinctly wider than the prothorax and 

 fully twice as long, the sides parallel and nearly straight, slightly rounded at 

 base to the prothorax and very broadly rounded in apical third ; disk with 

 deep, very even, abrupt grooves, the intervals from two to three times as wide 

 as the stride, finely feebly and sparsely punctate, the punctures forming rather 

 even series on the second, fourth and sixth, but confused on the others. 

 Abdomen finely, feebly and sparsely punctate. Prosternum broadly, feebly 

 impressed, separating the coxae by three-fourths of their own width, the 

 transverse subapical impression even, distinct, with a small impressed pit 

 adjoining it anteriorly. Length 3.8 mm. ; width 1.65 mm. 



Texas. 



One female example. This species is allied to coiifinis, but is 

 more robust, with a longer beak in the female, more widely sepa- 

 rated anterior coxte and more distinct squamules. 



With the type I associate a male and female from Indiana, which 



