Coleopterological Notices, VI. 601 



Head strongly cleflexed, coarsely relate, the frontal impressions 

 feeble; eyes convex, basal; epistoma with a pale subcoriaceous 

 prolongation, the labrum small, blackish, strongly rounded ; an- 

 tennae scarcely as long as the prothorax, feebly incrassate, the 

 penultimate joints slightly transverse. Prothorax one-half wider 

 than long, the sides broadly arcuate, more convergent anteriorly ; 

 disk opaque and coarsely retate, subexplanate near the lateral 

 edges. Elytra three-fourths longer than wide, distinctly wider 

 than the prothorax, the sides parallel and broadly arcuate, gradu- 

 ally and strongly rounded behind ; disk very coarsely and closely 

 cribrate, with faint vestiges of two or three uneven costuliform 

 lines on each. Length 3.3-3.6 mm.; width 1.4 mm. 



Georgia to Louisiana. The feeble costuliform lines on the 

 el^'tra are especially evident in the male, in which sex the fifth 

 ventral is broadly deflexed toward tip, with the apex somewhat 

 sinuate in the middle, and the genital segment thin, pale and cori- 

 aceous with its apex broadly and feebly sinuate, and its surface nar- 

 rowly and abruptly carinate along the middle. The description 

 is drawn from the female, and in the other sex the prothorax is 

 less transverse and less narrowed anteriorly, and the elytra rela- 

 tively shorter and more obtuse behind. Two specimens. 



2. A. cribrata Lee. — Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., VI, p. 171 (Dasytes) ; 

 Class. Col. N. A., 1861, p. 93 (Melyris). 



Resembles basalts, but smaller, less stout and with the elytra 

 uniformly piceous throughout, the epistoma and labrum pale ; 

 pubescence short, sparse and scarcel}'^ distinct. Length 2.2-2.6 

 mni.; width 0.8-LO mm. 



Middle and Southern States. This species is not rare, and may 

 be distinguished readily by the characters given in the table. In 

 the male the shining surface of the fifth ventral is gradually de- 

 flexed toward tip, the latter truncate ; the genital segment is 

 small and has a strong median carina. 



■i. A. floriilaiia n. sp. — Rather stout and convex, jiradually Inoader be- 

 hind, (lull anteriorly, the elytra shining; body black, the elytra rather pale and 

 piceous; legs piceous-brown. the femora blackish; antenuic blackish, the two 

 basal joints pale; pubescence dark t'ulvo-cinereous, snberect, fine and rather 

 dense anteriorly, long coarse and very sparse on the elytra. HertcJ four-fifths 

 as wide as the prothorax, dull and retate, smoother near the apex, not im- 

 pressed; epistoma pale and well developed, the laT)rum pale and strongly 

 rounded; eyes moderate in si/e and convexity; anteimiv very short, about as 



