Goleopterological Notices, VII. 389 



North Carolina. Mr. Schmitt. 



The type appears to be a female from the aspect of the opening 

 between the dorsal and ventral plates at the apex of the abdomen. 



It is probable that the Scydmsenus crassicornis of Schaum, 

 (Anal. Ent., 1841, p. 23), from Colombia, also belongs to this 

 genus. 



DRASTOPHUS n. gen. 



The sole representative of Euconnus thus far discovered in the 

 Pacific coast faunal region, is of a distinct and pronounced type 

 in having the prothorax strongly and subglobularly convex, with 

 a minute and feeble double fovea bordered inwardly by a very 

 small carina at each side, at the basal margin, but without further 

 modification of any kind, the median foveas and transverse im- 

 pression being wholly obsolete ; there is, in fact, not the feeblest 

 trace of a character which is peculiarly constant and distinctive 

 of Euconnus in all its eastern representatives. Otherwise, how- 

 ever, there is no structural feature which would prohibit us from 

 associating laemcollis with Euconnus as a subgenus. 



The typical representative of the genus may be described as 

 follows from the male : — 



1. D.lsevicollis n. sp. — Eather strongly ventricose, polished, impunctate, 

 uniformly blackish-piceous in color, the head pale, the legs and antennae pale 

 flavo-testaceous throughout ; last two segments of the abdomen paler ; pubes- 

 cence moderately abundant, sparse on the head, short, coarse, erect and bristling 

 on the prothorax, moderate in length, recurved and intermingled with longer 

 sparse and more erect setse on the elytra. Head moderately developed, very 

 slightly wider than long, broadly subparabolic behind the eyes, which are very 

 anterior in position, rather small and not prominent ; front feebly swollen 

 between the antenna! cavities and separated from the clypeus by a feeble trans- 

 verse groove, the clypeus simple, subporrect, rectilinearly truncate at apex ; 

 labrum vrell developed, almost circularly rounded, apparently very obsoletely 

 sinuate at the middle of the apex ; palpi normal. Antennse moderately long, 

 fully }4 as long as the body, somewhat slender; club pronounced though not 

 robust, rather well differentiated ; second joint nearly as long as the first but 

 slightly narrower, obconic, ,^5 longer than wide, barely as long as the next 

 two but distinctly thicker ; three to six equal in width, cylindric ; third )jj , 

 and fifth 34 longer than wide; fourth scarcely visibly elongate ; sixth dis- 

 tinctly shorter than wide ; seventh }4: wider, subglobular, as long as wide; 

 eighth % wider than the seventh, rounded, not quiteas long as wide ; ninth 

 }^ wider ; last three increasing very slightly and gradually in thickness among 

 themselves; ninth }-^, tenth ^ wider than long ; eleventh large, as long as the 

 two preceding, gradually and acutely pointed but only slightly oblique at apex. 



