104 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



A NEW CYCHRUS FROM NEW MEXICO 



By Charles Dury, Cincinnati, O. 



Cychrus kelloggi, n. sp. 

 Color bright bronzy violet. Shining. Head long and nar- 

 row, transversely wrinkled and with a few small scattered 

 punctures. The dilated terminal joints of all the palpi have 

 black centers and broad borders of ivory white. Prothorax 

 about as long as wide. Sides strongly reflexed. Side margins 

 much thickened. More widely reflexed and thickened in front. 

 Median line distinct its entire length. Surface of disk undu- 

 lated and coarsely punctured. x\pex deeply emarginate, base 

 much less so. The basal emargination being bisinuate. Hind 

 angles produced, not rounded at tip, nor lapping over elytra. 

 Elytra oblong oval, about twice as long as wide. Side margins 

 reflexed, more strongly at humeri. Fourteen equally impressed 

 striae with very coarse, moderately close punctures. Length, 

 17 mm., width, 7 mm. The specimen is a male and allied to 

 Van Dykei, Snowi, Roeschkei, Fuchsi and Corvus, but differs 

 from either. The anterior tarsal joints are widely dilated and 

 jointed, 1-3 are pappillose over entire surface beneath. The 

 antennae are long and slender, reaching to middle of body. Sent 

 to me by Mr. R. T. Kellogg, who was camping in Box Canyon, 

 New Mexico, on the Upper Gila. Arising one morning after 

 a night's rest, with the bluest of skys for a roof and the warm 

 dry sand for a bed, in rolling up his blankets he uncovered this 

 pretty and singular species. And though he searched for 

 others, none were found. Type in my collection, where it may 

 be examined by anyone interested. 



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