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broadly oval in form and strongly convex, much smaller than museorum. 

 Length 2.2 mm.; width 1. 3 mm. Pennsylvania and Indiana. .castaneae J/c/s/i. 

 Var A — Similar in color, form and size to castanets but with the scales more 

 narrowly triangular, less coarsely strigose, the paler sparsely dispersed but 

 forming a tolerably evident ring on each at base, very sparse behind the 

 middle, though arranged in two more evident transverse areas nearly as in 

 castahea but more widely separated. Length 2.25 mm.; width 1.35 mm. 



North Carolina ( Asheville) carolinae , v. nov. 



Var B — Similar in color to the preceding, the elytra a little paler ; form much 

 more narrowly oblong-oval, the surface more rugulose and alutaceous ; pale 

 scales as in Carolina but much more abundant than in either of the preced- 

 ing, scattered without order in basal half but with a large lateral condensation 

 at basal third or fourth, the two transverse fasciae behind the middle more 



evident. Length 1. 9 mm.; width 1.2mm. Texas angustulus, v. nov. 



Antenna; funicle veiy slender, the third and fourth joints scarcely a third as wide as the 

 second ; pale scales of the elytra very few in number and sparsely interspersed 

 among the darker ones, more noticeably abundant at basal third or fourth, just 

 behind the middle and near the apex ; body shorter and more broadly rounded 

 than in the preceding, castaneous in color, the tibiae and tarsi testaceous ; surface 

 shining between the very minute sparse punctules. Length 2.0 mm.; width 1. 4 



mm. New York rotundulus, sp. nov. 



10 — Body oval and convex, nearly as in castanees in color, form and vestiture, the 

 pale sales of the elytra forming on each a transverse fascia at basal fourth, curv- 

 ing forward internally to the scu ellum, and forming two less evident transverse 

 fasciae behind the middle. Length 1. 9-2. 5 mm.; width 1. 2- 1.4 mm. Europe; 

 [c/av/°crEr.~\ fuscus Latr. 



A form which I have not seen was described by LeConte, from 

 New York, under the name flavipes ; this was supposed by Jayne to be 

 the same as the European albidus of Brulle, and may have been 

 founded upon an introduced individual of that species, which in my 

 opinion is distinct from scrophu/oriic, although inscribed as a variety 

 in the catalogues ; signatus and proteus appear to be identical and to 

 form a variety of albidus, but senex may be another distinct species. 

 The two European species museorum and fuscus are introduced above 

 into the table, although I have never seen any examples taken in this 

 country. Those mentioned by Jayne may have been adventitious im- 

 portations. From the illustrations given of the antennae, however, it 

 is probable that Dr. Jayne did not have the true museorum before him 

 at all, but mistook the much smaller castanece for it ; museorum might 

 therefore be stricken from the American lists. Verbasci and its varie- 

 ties constitute the chief destructive element of entomological collec- 

 tions in temperate climates, but I have never known of any such habits 

 in scropbiularuc or allied species. 



