62 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. XI 



NEW SPECIES OF THROSCID^ (COL.). 



By Charles Schaeffer, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Four species of Drapetes are credited to our list to which two 

 more have to be added. A new species from Lower California, 

 which differs from the Mexican and Central American species 

 having no carina at the hind angles of prothorax by the position 

 of the red spots and by this and the non-carinate hind angles of 

 prothorax from the North American species. Of the Mexican 

 D. niger I have taken a few specimens at Brownsville, Texas. 



Two new species belonging to other genera are also added. 

 One of them, a fairly common species of Throscus in the east, 

 was labeled " n. sp." by the late Frederic Blanchard. 



Table of the Species of Drapetes Redt. 



1. Carina of hind angles of prothorax long, extending to about two thirds 



to apex 4 



Carina of hind angles short or absent 2 



2. Hind angles of prothorax without carina; color black, humeri with a 



small, red spot ecarinatus n. sp. 



Hind angles of prothorax carinate, carina not extending to the middle.. 3 



3. Prothorax red, elytra black without spots rubricollis Lee. 



Prothorax black ; elytra black, with two large sub-basal and two smaller 



subapical red spots quadripustulatus Bonv. 



4. Elytra with two large, oblique, red sub-basal spots, which often unite 



at suture geminatus Say 



Elytra without red spots 5 



5. Elytra without fascia of white hairs below middle nitidus Melsh. 



Elytra with fascia of fine white hairs below middle. niger Bonv. 



Drapetes ecarinatus new species : Black, elytral humeri with a red spot. 

 Head sparsely punctate. Prothorax at base slightly wider than long; 

 sides feebly arcuately narrowing to apex ; hind angles without carina ; sur- 

 face moderately coarsely and densely punctate ; punctures finer towards 

 apex ; below coarsely and rather densely punctate at sides. Elytra grad- 

 ually narrowed from base to apex; disk irregularly punctate, punctures 

 finer than those on prothorax. Metasternum sparsely punctate, punctua- 

 tion a little denser and coarser at sides. Abdomen rather sparsely punc- 

 tate and pubescent. Length 4.6 mm. 



El Taste, Lower California (G. Beyer). 



Drapetes niger Bonv. : This Mexican species, which occurs at Browns- 

 ville, Texas, is a little narrower than our eastern species, the color is black. 



