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extremely closely and quite finely punctured, the punctures crowded so much 

 as to have lost, in great part, their circular outline. Eyes moderate in 

 size, long, inner edges straight. Prothorax broader than the head, the 

 posterior edge indistinguishable so that no comparisons can be made with 

 the length, surface reticulately sculptured about as in M. cockerellce. 

 Elytra long, tapering strongly from behind the middle to the apices which 

 are obliquely truncate from the suture and sharply acuminate, sculpture a 

 rather fine confused punctuation tending to form transverse rugosities as 

 in M. fulvoguttata. Front and middle femora and middle tibia rather 

 slender, remainder of legs wanting. Length, from front of head to elytral 

 apices, 14.25 mm. ; of elytron, 9.25 mm. Greatest width across both elytra 

 in position as preserved, 5.50 mm. 



Station number 13B. One fine paired specimen, collected by S. A. 

 Kohwer. The type is in the American Museum of Natural History. 



This seems to be a good Melanophila. It is so different in the 

 form of the body and of the elytral apices as to separate at sight 

 from M. cockerellce. The size will distinguish it from all the 

 other known Florissant Buprestidse except Chrysohothris liay- 

 deni, which is described by Scudder as having rounded eyes and 

 broad-tipped, impunctate elytra. 



I name this species for Dr. Anton Handlirsch of Vienna, Aus- 

 tria. 



ACM^ODERA Esch. 



A. SCHAEFFERI n. sp. (Plate III, Fig. 7.) Form moderately elongate. 

 Head not distinctly separable from the prothorax, the latter broadest near 

 the base, finely scabrous and hairy. Elytron strongly sinuate externally 

 and sharply pointed at the tip, surface scabrous and hairy, apparently a 

 little more coarsely than the prothorax. Legs wanting. Length, from front 

 of head to elytral apex, 8.00 mm.; of elytron, 5.90 mm. Width of elytron 

 at the postmedian bulge, 1.30 mm. 



Station number 14. One specimen, collected by Mrs. W. P. Cockerell. 

 The type is in the Museum of the University of Colorado. 



This is well preserved as to the left elytron and has the charac- 

 teristic look of an Acm^eodera. It differs from all of our species 

 with which I am acquainted in the finer sculpture and the lack 

 of serrations near the elytral apex. It may be that this species 

 and A. abyssa are congeneric but not strictly referable to the 

 genus in which I have placed them. 



The beetle is named after Chas. Schaeffer, of the Museum of 

 the Brooklyn Institute. 



