64 SYNOPTIC TABLES OF COLEOPTERA. December 1882. ] 
ATRANUS, “«. 
A.pubescens, Dej. Long slender, piceous above and beneath with abdomen, legs, 
antennee and mouth-parts red-brown, antennze with but three joints glabrous, elytra 
pubescent, margined at base, surface striate, occellate punctures well marked, dorsal 
punctures not distinct. Itresembles very much a slender Platynus (pusillus). 
A. pubescens. De}. Spec. III, 122. Lec. Amn. Lyc. IV, 439.==obconicus, Hald., Proc. 
Ac. Phila. I, 229, N, Y., Pa., D.C.—7-8 mm. 
PENTACONICA : Schmidt Goebel, 
(Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. X, 158.) 
P. (Rhombodera) flavipes. Lec. A small species with a general resemblance to 
some of the varieties of Lebia analis. The thorax is short, the sides strongly angulate, 
the base narrowed. The elytra are very vaguely striate, without punctures, surface is 
finely alutaceous. Legs tesiaceous; underside of abdomen piceous. 
The species vary greatly im color. 
var. flavipes, Lec. Entirely piceous. 
var. bicolor, Lec. Head and thorax above and beneath pale reddish yellow. | 
var, ——, Head and elytra piceous, thorax reddish yellow. 
Gulf States, Arizona, Ills. and Ks.—3.5-4.5 mm. 
P. flavipes, Lec. (Didetus) Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. 1853, p. 377.=dzcolor, Lec,, New 
Spec. Col. I, 7.==pallipes, Lec. Class, Col. p. 377, La. Gulf Sts., Ills. Ks. Ariz, 
3.5-4.5 mm, 
P. angulata, Boh. (Lebia) Eugen. Resa. p. 7, South America.? 
COPTODERA, 
(Horm. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. X, 131.) 
C. aerata, Dej. Piceous, elytra bluish green. Male.-—Anterior tarsi feebly dila- 
ted, first three joints biseriately squammulose. Middle tibize distinctly emarginate on 
the inner side near the tip, the tarsi slender. Anal segment bisetose each side. 
Female.—Tarsi slender, Middle tibia not emarginate, Anal segment as in the male. 
C. aerata, De}. Spec. I, 277, Chaud. Ann. Belg. 1869, p. 179.=wviridipennis, Gory. 
Ann. France, 1833, p. 194,==viridipennis, Lec. Ann. Lyc. IV, 196.=ruficornis, 
Chaud. l.c. p. 179. M.W. & S. St.—6-6.5 mm. 
PHLOEOXENA, (az. 
(Zlom:,) Trans, Am) Entom. Soeyes 137.) 
P signata, Dej.. Head piceous. Thorax testaceous with a median piceous spot 
more or less defined. Elytra piceous with an undulating fascia posteriously, and an ir- 
regular dentate band more or less interrupted, broad at the lateral margin, behind the 
base, testaceous. Male anterior tarsi with three joints slightly dilated and beneath bi- 
seriately squammulose. “Anal segment with one seta on each side.* 
Female.—Tarsi slender. Anal segment bi-setose each side. 
P. signata, De}. (Coptodera) Spec. I, 275==collaris, Lec. Ann. Lyc. IV, 197, Gulf St. 
Carolinas, Ga.—5.5-6 mm. 
