Coleopferological Notices, VT. 695 



rounded and ininiitely impressed in the middle at base, feebly convex, 

 strongly but sparsely punctate, with a wide impunctate line; eyes moderately 

 large and prominent, subeqnal in length to the tempora; basal angles mod- 

 erately distinct; antennse slender, feelily incrassate, as long as the head and 

 prothorax, the tenth joint as long as wide. Prothorax slightly narrower than 

 the head and a little wider than long, the sides strongly roiinded anteriorly, 

 thence oblique and feebly arcuate to basal fourth, then snbparallel to the 

 base; disk strongly and rather closely ]>unctate; collar wide and Avell devel- 

 oped. Elytra two-thirds longer than wide, twice as wide as the prothorax, 

 distinctly wider at the middle than at base, the apex not broadly, evenly 

 rounded; humeri widely rounded; omoplates very feeble; punctures coarse 

 and sparse. Le^.s moderate in length, not very slender. Length 2.8-3.3 mm. ; 

 Avidth 0.85-1.15 mm. 



Vancouver Island (Victoria). Mr. Wickham. 



Closely allied in general characters and coloration to ephip- 

 pium, but distinguishable very readily b^- the much smaller eyes. 

 The copulatory sheath is similar in form to that of r.phippium 

 but is more gradually and acutely ogival, the apex of the ogive 

 produced in a finer point ; on the upper surface at apex the sides 

 are very much more narrowly :nid feebly reflexed than in ephij:)- 

 pium. 



7. A. lllteolUS Lee— Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., X. Y., Y, p. 154; Proc. 

 Acad., Phila., 1852, p. 99. 



Rather narrow, moderately convex, polished, pale ochreous- 

 flavate throughout, the elytra sometimes very feebly clouded to- 

 ward the middle but never distinctly fasciate; pubescence coarse, 

 sparse, pale in color, subdecumbent and only moderately long. 

 Head quadrate, broadly rounded at base, coarsely, rather sparsely 

 punctate, with an impunctate line; basal angles rounded; eyes 

 large. Prothorax slightly narrower than the head, fully as wide 

 as long, similar in form to that of ephippiuiii but more coarsely 

 and sparsely punctate. Elytra about four-fifths longer tlian wide, 

 scarcely twice as wide as the prothorax, gradually narrowed be- 

 hind the middle, the apex somewhat narrowly rounded; punc- 

 tures coarse, rather sparse, only slightly smaller toAvard apex. 

 Abdomen finel}^ and very sparsely punctate. Length 2.7 mm.; 

 width 0.8 mm. 



California (Yuma) and Arizona (East Bridge). This form is 

 smaller, narrower and paler than any of the others of the ephip- 

 piuni group, and the elytral punctures are more uniform in size 

 throughout the disk; the pubescence, also, is decidedly shorter 



