NORTH OF \ll..\n 0. : > , , 



P. globosa, Lee, Paci. I!. It. 1!.. A.pp. 1, p. 51, pi. ii. fig. I. 



This and the following species differ from those which precede, in so many charai 

 thai the establishment of a distinct genus seems almost necessary. They are both broadly 

 oval and convex, rather coarsely punctured ; antenna? longer than the head and thorax, 



slender and with the enter joints not transverse, meso- and metasternum short, and the 

 elytra with the first stria parallel with the suture ainl no -eutellar stria. 



P. globosa is entirely testaceous, with two blacK marks en each elytron, the front 

 being zigzag, the hinder irregularly triangular. 



I ,ength .1 3— .1 1 inch. 



From the sea coast in the neighborhood el' San Frai cisco. 



1'. h u m eralis, n. sp. 



Similar in form to the preceding, but less convex. The color is black, somewhat 

 bronzed, with a red humeral spot en each eh Men. 

 I .ength .1 ■'» inch. 

 California (locality unknown). 

 P. i> i .■ i a, M. n in.. Bull, Mosc. 1843, 277. Sitklia; is unknown to me in nature. 



TRACHYSCELIS, Latr. 

 Trachyscelis, Latr., Gen. Crust, et In-. IV. p. 379. 



The form of antenna at once distinguishes Trachyscelis from Phaleria, and the trun- 

 cate epistoma from A.na?mia. In form the species resemble /Egialia. 



T. Qavipe s, Mels., Proc. A.cad. Ill, p. 61. 



The upper surface i- black and shining, the elytra rather deeply striate and without 

 -eutellar stria. The under surface i- paler and the legs yellowish. 

 1 ,ength .1 ",'-.1 1 inch, 

 from the southwestern Atlantic sea coast. 



w i:\ii. \. - 



mia, Cast.. Ilia. Nat. Col. 11. p. 218. 



Head broad, deeply emarginate, sides rather broadly dilated. Eyes deeply etnargi- 

 nate, superior portion small. Mcntum small, trapezoidal. Last joint of maxillary palpi 

 elongate oval. 



Antennae short, robust, graduallj thicker toward the tip. outer joint- verj transverse, 

 last joint slightlj longer than the preceding and rounded at tip. Thorax very transverse. 

 Elytra a- broad a- thorax, and with entire epipleura?. Legs short, robust, tibiae all dilated. 



r apical angle of all prolonged. Bod) winged. 



I refer to \mcmia, an insect from California possessing all the characters assigned to 

 the species of the Eastern Continent, with also a similarity ofsculptur . 

 ami hi. Mi 1 1 . —vol. xiv. — 95 



