284 Memoirs on the Coleoptera 



10.8 mm.; width 3.85 mm. North Carolina (Southern Pines), — 



Manee obscura n. sp. 



Surface less convex, polished throughout; form more abbreviated, dark 

 rufous, the translucent pronotal sides a little paler; elytra black, 

 with the reflexed margins rufous; under surface and legs paler, 

 rufous, the abdomen gradually darker posteriorly; head barely 

 longer than wide, three-fourths as wide as the prothorax, smooth, 

 plicatulate laterally throughout the length, the eyes very prominent; 

 antennae obscure rufous, slender, two-fifths as long as the body; 

 prothorax transverse, two-fifths wider than long, widest slightly 

 before the middle, the sides rather strongly, subevenly arcuate 

 and broadly, evenly reflexed, the basal angles very obtusely sub- 

 prominent at tip; base with broad feeble median lobe, slightly 

 oblique and arcuate at the sides; apex sinuate, with broadly rounded 

 angles, bearing each a few setae; surface smooth though with some 

 feeble transverse rugulae; anterior impression feebly evident at the 

 middle; basal impression interrupted at the middle; median stria 

 fine, subentire; reflexed margins sparsely, the base and apex less 

 distinctly, sparsely, punctulate; elytra oblong, parallel, scarcely 

 one-half longer than wide, three-fifths wider than the prothorax; 

 acute basal margin sinuate medially and very broadly rounded 

 laterally as usual; striae fine, very minutely punctulate; intervals 

 not quite flat, the punctuation nearly as in the preceding, all the 

 punctures feebler however and barely observable; dorsal punctures 

 strong, on the third stria, at two and four fifths. Length 9.3 mm.; 

 width 3.5 mm. Florida. A single example from an unrecorded 

 locality atripennis n. sp. 



The species described by LeConte as punctigera, from near 

 Yuma, Arizona, is allied to blanda and subcarinata, but, according 

 to the statements of Horn, differs from either in having the im- 

 pressed median line of the pronotum continuous from base to apex. 

 Atrolucens I thought at one time might be one of the varietal forms 

 of atrata Che v., but on reading Chevrolat's description more care- 

 fully, it would appear to be specifically different, atrata being 1 1 mm. 

 in length and having rufous tarsi. 



In the case of ampliata, described above, I too hastily assumed 

 it to be identical with planipennis of LeConte, but the description 

 of that author, although indicating a species about as large in size 

 and therefore not invalidating my remarks regarding hrevipennis 

 Zimm., seems to show that Cymindis planipennis is a different 

 species from Pinacodera ampliata. The elytra in the former are 

 said to be subopaque, darker in color posteriorly and with im- 

 punctate striae, and the pronotum deeply impressed at base; it is 

 from New Mexico, and, as the differences between Cymindis and 



