392 Memoirs on the Coleoptera 



closely and confusedly punctate, nearly four times as wide as the striae; 

 male with short thick conical spines before the coxae, the prosternum not 

 excavated anteriorly. Length (cf 9) 4.0-4.2 mm.; width 1.8 mm. 

 Ohio and Kentucky. 



Differs from neglectus in its larger size and more broadly oval 

 form, with the beak in the female more rapidly thinner beyond the 

 antennae and the pronotal vestiture not abruptly dense toward the 

 sides. It more closely resembles grisescens, especially in the struc- 

 ture of the beak of the female, but the pro thorax is not so abbrevi- 

 ated and is more coarsely punctate; the scales of the elytra are 

 similarly intermingled with darker scales, but all are narrower than 

 in grisescens, which is known solely thus far from the mountains of 

 western North Carolina. 



Centrinaspis furtiva n. sp. — More abbreviated and broadly suboval, 

 moderately convex, black, with rufo-piceous legs, densely clothed above 

 with broad linear ochreous-yellow scales, uniform in color and distribu- 

 tion, not quite so close on the pronotum, densely clothed beneath with 

 more oval whitish scales; beak in the female half as long as the body, 

 stout basally, thinner apically, arcuate, a little more so basally; antennae 

 inserted at the middle, the second funicular joint long, as long as the 

 next two; prothorax short, two-fifths wider than long, the sides strongly 

 arcuate, becoming gradually subparallel basally, the apex tubulate and 

 about half as wide as the base; punctures dense and rather coarse, the 

 smooth median line very narrow and central only; elytra narrowly 

 parabolic, scarcely more than a third longer than wide, but slightly 

 wider than the prothorax and three-fourths longer; striae coarse and 

 deep; intervals from two and one-half to three times as wide as the striae, 

 densely and confusedly, rather coarsely punctate. Length ($) 3.4- 

 3.6 mm.; width i. 65-1. 7 mm. Missouri, — Schuster. Two examples. 



Not closely allied to any other species described, and represented 

 so far only by the female. 



Centrinaspis proxima n. sp. — Elongate-suboval, moderately convex, 

 black throughout, densely clothed above with uniform and broadly 

 linear, decumbent and dark yellowish-gray scales, a little narrower and 

 less dense on the pronotum but very uniform, dense, more oval and 

 whitish and with feeble metallic lustre on the under surface and femora; 

 beak in the male arcuate, moderately thick, very feebly and gradually 

 tapering, somewhat more than half as long as the body, the antennae 

 inserted only a little beyond the middle, the first funicular joint not quite 

 as long as the next three, the second almost as long as the succeeding two, 

 the club narrowly oval as usual; prothorax scarcely a fourth wider than 

 long, the sides feebly converging and nearly straight, broadly rounding 

 and oblique in about apical two-fifths, the apex scarcely constricted, 

 almost half as wide as the base; punctures very dense, the median 



