4 Psyche [February 



A NEW SPECIES OF NEW ENGLAND COLEOPTERA. 

 By C. A. Frost, Framingham, Mass. 



Cantharis (Telephorus) andersoni, sp. nov. 



Size and form of rotundicollis Say. Color entirely testaceous 

 except for the following black, or at least dark piceous areas : the 

 outer joints of antennae, a diamond-shaped spot on the vertex 

 a spot between the front coxae and one on each side of the gular 

 suture, the meso and metasternum, the greater part of the first 

 six ventral segments, the hind til^ise and generally the middle 

 tibiae and the distal ends of the hind femora, a dark spot occa- 

 sionally on the middle femora above at the knees, the scutellum 

 generally dark and sometimes black, the tarsi more or less dark 

 especially beneath. Head sparsely punctured and pubescent, 

 tumid between and in front of the antennae, with a transverse 

 impression above each antenna, the second joint of which is 

 short and the rest subequal. Thorax orbicular, nearly smooth and 

 sparsely pubescent; front and side margins translucent and 

 reflexed, more deeply concave at the sides before the middle, 

 the tumid cordiform area of the disk abruptly limited by a deep 

 groove in front of the hind margin of the thorax, the median 

 impressed line faintly indicated at the middle becoming deeper 

 and broadly triangularly depressed behind. Elytra more densely 

 pubescent with yellowish hairs, smooth (finely punctured at the 

 insertions of the hairs) at the base, becoming gradually strongly 

 granulato-rugose to the apex. Beneath finely punctured and 

 pubescent, more sparsely so on the abdomen. Anterior claw 

 on all the tarsi with a basal tooth which is more slender and with 

 the inner edge more curved on the hind and middle ones. Length 

 11 to 13 mm. 



The sexual characters are as usual not strongly indicated. 

 The male antennae are slightly longer, the second joint being 

 shorter in comparison with the third, and the basal tooth of the 

 claw on the anterior tarsi are broader than in the female; the 

 seventh segment of the abdomen is broadly emarginate, ex- 

 posing an eighth segment, in the male. 



