LeConte.] 



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The color is black, with the antenaae and tarsi testaceous; the front 

 thighs are armed with a very small tooth, and the others are entirely un- 

 armed. The markings are composed of scales, and in well preserved spe- 

 cimens the sides of the prothorax and the trunk are also squamose; a small 

 post scutellar line and another each side at the base, and an indistinct pro- 

 thoracic dorsal line are also whitish. The elytral markings stop suddenly 

 at the eighth striae, along which the front margin of the curve is prolonged, 

 thus giving an oblique outline. The color varies and the elytra and legs 

 are sometimes dark brown. I am in doubt whether this species is properly 

 identified with the one intended by Gyllenhal. If the latter be not the one 

 here described, it is probably nothing more than a dark variety of the next 

 species, A. subguttatus, described below, also agrees moderately well, but 

 the elytra are not piceous and the beak is not striate. If on examining the 

 original type of scutellatus it is found that this species is distinct, it may 

 be called variegatus. 



9. A. signatusSay, Cure. 25; ed. Lee. i, 293; Gyll., Sch. Cure, iii, 348; 

 Boh., ibid, vii, 2nd, 221, var. A. bisignatus Gyll., ibid, iii, 344 



Massachusetts to Florida and Texas ; the black spot visually extends from 

 the side two-thirds way to the suture, upon which in the best marked 

 specimens, there is also a small dark spot ; but it is frequently much 

 smaller, extending only from the third to the sixth stria ; the pubescence 

 is denser at the margin of the spot which is thus surrounded with a hairy 

 band. The thighs are all armed with an acute tooth. The second joint of 

 the funiculus of the antennae is perceptibly longer than the third, but not 

 so much so as in the preceding species. It therefore forms a passage to 

 the small species which compose the next group. 



10. A. rubidus, n. sp. 



Testaceous, uniformly clothed above and beneath with fine ochreous 

 pubescence; beak punctured and striate, head sparsely punctured; pro- 

 thorax wider than long, densely but not coarsely punctured, narrowed 

 from the base, sides broadly rounded in front, feebly constricted near the 

 tip, pubescence more condensed on the median line. Elytra one-third 

 wider than the prothorax, oblong, striae deep, moderately punctured, inter- 

 spaces convex punctulate, scuttellar region somewhat dark, scuttellum 

 white-pubescent. Thighs armed with an acute tooth; front tibiae curved 

 at base, sinuate on the inner side. Length 2.2 mm. ; .09 inch. 



One specimen, Pennsylvania ; Dr. Melsheimer. Though agreeing in 

 some characters, this species must be quite different from A. helvolus Boh. 

 Sch. Cure, vii, 2,224, which is unknown to me. 



11. A. juniperinus. ErivMnus junip. Sanborn, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., xii, 81. 



Massachusetts, in Podysoma, a parasitic fungus on Juniper. A small 

 pubescent pale species, easily known by the fuscous narrow curved band 

 behind the middle of the elytra; the beak is punctured and striate as far as 

 the middle, fi'ont channeled, prothorax densely not coarsely punctured; 



