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than the prothorax, one-half -wider than long, convex, humeri prominent, 

 stritt! with large sliallow punctures, interspaces somewhat convex, first, 

 third and fifth a little more prominent. Tibite not mucronate, not even 

 the front pair. Length 7.6 mm. ; .3 inch. 



One specimen from Pennsylvania given me by Dr. Melsheimer, under 

 the name adopted ; another from Canada. The mandibles are oblique, 

 and not emarginate at tip. 



I should refer this species to CephuMges, but the eyes are not approxi- 

 mate above as described in that genus. It belongs, however, to the group 

 Bonus Capiomont, and seems related to the Canarian P. irroratus Wollas- 

 ton. I am not at all certain that it properly belongs to our fauna. 



2. P. elong-atus Gyll , Sch. Cure, ii, 374; Schiodte, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch. 

 1859, 14t, Cap. 1. c. 1868, 193 ; CarcuUo eloncj. Paykull, Fauna Suec. iii, 

 236. 



One specimen from Greenland, kindly sent me by Mr. Chr. Drewsen. 

 Belongs to Capiomont's sixth group Pliytonomus. 



3. P. setigerus, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, black, densely clothed with yellow-brown scales, 

 and long pale hairs, which on the elytra are arranged in rows ; prothorax 

 strongly rounded on the sides, widest at the middle, with two broad darker 

 discoidal stripes, and a spot each side in front ; elytra with the alternate 

 spaces tesselated with dark-brown, and frequently with a large quadrate 

 common dark spot at the base ; first joint of funiculus of antennye one-half 

 longer than the second. Length 5.5 mm. ; .22 inch. 



Kansas, two specimens. Larger and stouter than the next, and easily 

 known by the hairs intermixed with the scales, and by the funiculus of the 

 antennse longer and more slender, with the first joint conspicuouslj' longer 

 than the second. 



This species is allied to the Euroi)ean P. Pollux, but the prothorax is 

 wider in front and more rounded on the sides, and the setas of the elytra 

 are much longer and more obvious. 



4. P. comptus Say, Cure. 12 ; ed. Lee. i, 274 ; Gyll., Sch. Cure, ii, 

 384; P. diver ausGyW., ibid, ii, 371; Cap., Ann. Ent. Fr. 1868, 163. 



Missouri and Canada. Has been observed by Mr. Riley to form a cocoon 

 similar to that of European species. Belongs to Capiomont's third group 

 Erirhinomorphus. 



5. P. pubicollis, n. sp. 



Less elongate, blackish, head and i)rothorax pubescent, with gray hairs, 

 more coarse on the latter; front narrow, with a deep fovea behind the 

 eyes. Prothorax not longer than wide, a little wider at the middle, 

 narrower in front than at base, rounded on the sides; strongly and densely 

 punctured, indistinctly trivittatc. Elytra one-third wider than the pro- 

 thorax, oval, truncate at base, humeri rounded ; striae punctured, clothed 

 withi depressed hair-like scales, and a very few intermixed short hairs ; 

 gray, tesselated with brown and Ijlack ; a quadrate dark spot at the base, 



