Coleopterological Notices, VI. 443 



sinuation at the apex of the sixth ventral, occupying about median 

 third and about tliree times as wide as deep, and the apical mar- 

 gin of the fifth segment is very feebly- sinuate in the middle. The 

 epipleurffi are wide, pubescent throughout and broadly, feebly im- 

 pressed toward base. A female specimen, taken near Monterej- 

 Bay, is blackish throughout but does not seem to differ materiall3' 

 otherwise. 



8. C'. virgiiiiae ii. sp. — Stout, strongly convex, feebly sTiiniiig, the pu- 

 bescence fine, very dense and pluniljeo-cinereous throughout, the punctures 

 scarcely visible ; body pale brownish -testaceous in color, the legs concolorous; 

 antennae brown, paler and diaphanous toward base, the eleventh joint also 

 pale. Head small, scarcely two-fifths as wide as the prothorax, the antennse 

 rather long, very evenly and gradually incrassate through the seven outer 

 joints, the ninth slightly elongate, the tenth a little wider than long, eleventh 

 scarcely one-half longer than Avide, almost symmetrically and rapidly pointed 

 at apex. Frothorax one-half wider than long, strongly convex, the sides 

 strongly and evenly arcnate, l^ecoming parallel toward base; the apex but 

 slightly more than one-half as wide as the base, the basal angles gradually 

 and strongly prominent posteriorly, right and slightly blunt. Elytra a little 

 narrower and but very slightly longer than the prothorax, not quite as long as 

 wide, the sides distinctly convergent and broadly arcuate from base to apex, 

 the latter broadly and triangularly eniarginate; disk somewhat coarsely but 

 feebly imbricato-punctulate. Abdomen gradually tapering from the base, the 

 black seta? rather long and conspicuous even toward l^ase. Length 2.1 nun. ; 

 width 1.4 mm. 



Virginia (Norfolk). 



In the male the sixth ventral has a triangular notch occupying 

 about median third of the apex and about twice as wide as deep, 

 with the angle scarcely at all rounded and the sides nearl^^ 

 straight, and the fifth segment is feebly sinuate in the middle of 

 the apical margin. The epipleura? are moderately wide, deeply 

 hollowed in more than basal half, pubescent but becoming gradu- 

 all}' glabrous near the base. A single specimen. 



9. C niacer n. sp. — leather narrow, strongly convex, feebly shining, pale 

 brownish-testaceous tln-oughout, the legs and antennte concolorous, the latter 

 more flavate at apex and toward base as usual ; pubescence very dense, rather 

 dark in color. Head nearly one-half as wide as the prothorax, the antenna) 

 moderately long, evenly but rather rapidly incrassate through the five or six 

 outer joints, the seventh elongate, the ninth and tenth somewhat wider than 

 long, eleventh oval, stout and very obliquely i»inted at apex. Prothorax fully 

 one-half wider than long, the apex two-thirds as wide as the 1)ase; sides 

 evenly and strongly arcuate; basal angles gradually and strongly prominent 

 posteriorly, right and ouly slightly hlnnt. Ehjira short and transverse, nearly 



