378 Coleopterological Notices^ VI I. 



A small species, somewhat allied to gratus but differing in the 

 less abruptly formed antennal club, deep impression joining the 

 pronotal fovese, smaller head and much longer and more bristling 

 elytral vestiture. From putus it differs greatly in its narrower and 

 less apically narrowed prothorax, much broader head and in other 

 features of structure and facies. The single type in ray cabinet 

 is of undetermined sex. 



13. E. relucens n. sp. — Narrowly elongate-oval, scarcely at all ventri- 

 cose, polished, the elytra spaisely and feebly punctate, piceo-castaneous, 

 the elytra slightly paler and more rufous ; legs and antennae dark rufous ; 

 pubescence abundant, pale, stiff and bristling on the head and pronotum, di- 

 rected posteriorly on the occiput, long, stiff, erect and even on the elytra. 

 Head nearly as long as wide, parabolically rounded behind the eyes, which 

 are anterior, moderately large, very convex and prominent ; antennal promi- 

 nences rather feeble, the narrowed front between the antennal cavities not 

 tumid or sulcate; clypeus feebly rugose, rectilinearly truncate at apex; labrum 

 strongly asperato-punctate and setose. Aniennse rather more than J^ as long 

 as the body, moderately slender, the club feeble and extremely gradual in 

 formation, scarcely at all differentiated ; second joint distinctly narrower 

 than the first, strongly obconic, nearly twice as long as wide, about as 

 long as the next two and but just visibly thicker ; three to six subcylindric, 

 with beaded base, equal in width ; third barely longer than wide ; fourth }{, 

 fifth nearly ^'2, sixth %, longer than wide, seventh only just visibly wider, 

 subcylindric, }-^ longer than wide ; eighth obconic in basal ^, strongly conic 

 in apical %, scarcely }i wider than the seventh and a little longer than wide ; 

 ninth and tenth subsimilar, successively j ust visibly thicker, as long as wide 

 and slightly wider than long respectively, rather closely joined ; eleventh ab- 

 normal, oval, with an almost axial ogival point, nearly as long as the two pre- 

 ceding, much thicker and joined obliquely. Prothorax about as long as wide, 

 nearly }4 wider than the head, narrowed slightly at base, broadly rounded ante- 

 riorly, the sides gradually convergent toward apex ; surface near the base with 

 an isolated fovea at each side near the fiank, and a deep transverse double fovea 

 at each side of the median line. Elytra oval with evenly rounded sides, widest 

 but not more strongly rounded near basal %, nearly % longer than wide, more 

 than twice as long as the prothorax and scarcely ^ wider ; humeral plica long, 

 oblique but fine and feeble ; the impression long but very feeble ; fovese small, 

 approximate and feeble ; subsutural impressions feeble, oblique, uniting on 

 the suture behind the base ; suture finely and feebly beaded basally, the bead 

 expanded at base. Legs well developed ; femora all rather strongly clavate ; 

 hind tarsi filiform, with the joints decreasing perceptibly in length, the first 

 distinctly longer than the second. Length 1.55 mm. ; width 0.55 mm. 



Florida. 



The single type is probably a male, as there appears to be a 

 narrowly obtuse corneous apex of the copulatory spicule visible 



