Goleojiterological Notices, VI. 74*7 



unevenly punctate. Legs rather long and slender. Length 3.0 

 mm.; width 1.1 mm. 



Lake Superior, — Cab. LeConte. The male has the anterior 

 tibiffi feebly bent but not much thickened ; the female scarcelj' 

 differs in form. 



6. A. punctiger n. sp. — Stout and convex, shinins;-, pale rufo-testaeeous, 

 the under surface of the hind ])ody only slightly picescent ; elytra more flavate, 

 each -with a small feebly defined median spot of piceoustint; pubescence very 

 short, coarse, decumbent, cinereous and rather sparse, the prosternnm and 

 under surface of the head -with a few very long erect set?e. Head triangular, 

 wider than long, shining but coarsel}', sparsely tuberculose and minutely 

 punctate, the smooth median line nearly even, distinct and entire; base trun- 

 cate; tempora very prominent and angulate; ejes rather large, at much less 

 than their own length from the base; antenna rather short, about one-half 

 longer than the head, moderately stout, submoniliform except toward the 

 base, the tenth joint transverse, eleventh at least one-half longer than the 

 tenth, conoidal. Pinihorax short and strongly transverse, just visibly wider 

 than the head, the sides parallel and evenly, subcircularly rounded to just 

 before the middle, then l)ecoming very strongly convergent to the basal mar- 

 gin at basal sixtli or seventh, then parallel to the base; apex transversely 

 evenly and feebly arcuate; disk coarsely, rather closely tuberculose, impressed 

 along the median line except toward base. Elytra oblong-oval, scarcely more 

 than one-half longer than wide, the sides evenly and distinctly arcuate; base 

 sinuate for the thoracic base; the apex not very broadly, obtusely rounded ; 

 humeri widely exposed at base; disk vith the basal impressions and omoplates 

 subobsolete, the punctures coarse, widely impressed, deep and moderately 

 separated. Abdomen finely and somewhat irregularly punctate. Legs moder- 

 ately long and slender, the femora distinctly, subasperately punctate. Length 

 2.9 mm.; width 1.1 mm. 



Lake Superior. 



The single female before me represents a species rather closely 

 allied to granularis, but differing conspicuoush' in the more 

 broadly rounded sides of the prothorax anteriorly, in its shorter, 

 more oval and rounded, more posteriorly attenuate and much 

 more coarselj' and closely punctate elytra, somewhat shorter an- 

 tennae, coloration and in a number of other characters. 



7. A. palleiis Lee. — Agass. "Lake Superior," p. 231; Proc. Acad., 

 Phila., 18.52, p. 103 (Anthicus). 



Stout and convex, rather dull, pale flavo-testaceous throughout ; 

 pubescence short, coarse, decumbent and not very dense. Head 

 triangular, fully as long as wide, finely, sparsely tuberculose, 

 with an even and entire sinootli median line; base truncate, dis- 



