Undescrihed Cossonidcr. 205 



of its feet is very mucli larger and wider, and (instead of 

 being nearly simple) most deeply bilobed. 



GENUS BOROPHLCEUS. 



Wollaston, Trans. Ent. Soc, Zond., 414 (1873). 



Borophlceus 3furraf/i, n. sp. 



B. angustulus, parallelus, nitidus, ater ; rostro (brevius- 

 culo, latiusculo, fere parallelo, sc. postice paululum 

 angustiore) profunde et rugose punctato, oculis subdeniissis ; 

 prothorace subtriangulari-quadrato, antice distiiicte con- 

 stricto, postice trisinnato, profunde, grossissime sed baud 

 dense subtec^ualiter punctato (punctis postice in medio sub- 

 majoribus) ; elytris grossissime punctato-sulcatis, inter- 

 stitiis convexis et minute pimctulatis ; antennis tarsisque 

 rufo-ferrugineis. Subtus parce, grosse et profunde 

 punctatus ; abdominis segmentis Imo et lido in medio 

 longitudinaliter im])ressis ; metasterno postice profunde 

 canaliculato. 



Fo&m? [vix species altera]. — rostro subgraciliore et in 

 medio transversim subgibl)oso ; prothorace subdensius 

 punctato, necnon (priesertim postice) evidenter carinulato. 



Long. corp. lin. circa 3. 



Habitat in sylvis proceris California, nuper detectus a 

 cl. A. Murray — cujus in honorem nonien specificum proposui. 



Ohs. — B. 2nincticolli, Woll., in Mexico degenti, aftinis, sed 

 differt corpore majore et grossius sculpturato, oculis minus 

 prominentil)us, fronte multo niinutius foveolata, scutello 

 majore, interstitiis evidenter punctulatis, necnon antennis 

 tarsisque conspicue pallidioribus. Cossono crenato, Horn, 

 e California et Oregon, simillinuis, et forsan ejus varietas 

 topographica ; sed paululum major, rostro subbreviore, 

 antice vix minus dilatato, jmnctis niediis ad basin pro- 

 thoracis minus longitudinaliter dispositis, scutello vix 

 magis rotundato, interstitiis sub-evidentius punctulatis, 

 tibiisque nigrescentioriljus. 



Tlie present Boropldoius has lately been communicated 

 by Andrew ]\Iurray, Esq., by whom it was detected, only 

 a few uKjnths ago, in tl)e forests of California ; and 1 have 

 much pleasure in dedicating the species to its captor — 

 whose interesting explorations across the Atlantic have 



