522 Coleopterological Notices, V. 



tennal joint, complete absence of scutelliim and absence of all trace 

 of a dilated post-coxal plate on the first ventral segment, and sug- 

 gests certain types of the latter by the excessively small or obsolete 

 mes-epimera. It however differs from both in the compressed body, 

 more transversely elongate and more narrowly separated hind coxae, 

 narrower met-episterna, narrowed posteriorly and not anteriorly, in 

 the still longer tarsi and longer tibial spurs, in having the large 

 side-piece of the mesosternum clearly separated by a longitudinal 

 suture near the coxas, and in the fact that the sutural stria of the 

 elytra does not attain the base. 



Our two species are very strongh' differentiated but cannot be 

 separated generically ; they may be defined as follows: — 



Basal angles of the protliorax only very feebly produced, obtusely angiilate, 

 the side-margin of the protliorax attaining their apices ; metasternuni gen- 

 erally with a cluster of four or five coarse punctures near the middle coxae. 



ganiniaroides 



Basal angles not at all produced, obtuse and somewhat blunt; side-margin of 

 the prothorax rapidly deflexed, meeting the sides of the pronotum far iu 

 front of the basal angles, the intervening edge upwardly oblique ; meta- 

 sternum coarsely, deeply punctured throughout COnipresSllIU 



In gamwaroides there is a slight downward flexure in the acute 

 lateral margins of the prothorax opposite the point where these 

 margins terminate in covipi-essum, suggesting a merely less de- 

 veloped form of the same structure. 



T. ganimaroides Ltc— Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., IStO, p. 324. 



Narrow, polished, scarcely punctate, black; tip of abdomen, legs 

 and antennae rufous. Antenna slender, nearly as long as the head 

 and prothorax, the third joint slender, almost four limes as long as 

 wide, shorter than the fourth, the latter not as long as the fifth but 

 equal to the sixth; seventh slightly stout; eighth more slender; 

 club moderate in length. Met-episterna posteriorly onl}" one-half 

 as wide as near the base; suture coarse and deep; epimera small, 

 extending inward far within the episterna, meeting the tips of the 

 hind coxae. Length 1.6-1.8 mm.; width 0.7-0.75 mm. 



Rhode Island and New York; LeConte indicates "Southern 

 and Western States," but may have confounded the next species. 



T. coinpressiim Zimm. — Trans. Am. Ent. Soc , 1869, p. 251. 



Greatly resembles the preceding but rather shorter, broader and 

 dark red-brown in color. Besides the characters already noted 



