390 Goleopterological Notices, VII. 



Pro^Aoraa; subglobular, scarcely as long as wide, nearly J^ wider than the head, 

 truncate at apex, strongly rounded at the sides, narrowed at base, the surface 

 strongly and evenly convex. Elytra nearly ^ longer than wide, 23^ times 

 longer than the prothorax and % wider, strongly inflated near the middle and 

 very much narrowed thence to the base ; apex narrowly rounded; humeral 

 plica and impression obsolete ; fovese large, deep, equal, perforate and approxi- 

 mate, the inner slightly emarginating the sutural bead ; subsutural impres- 

 sions obsolete, the suture feebly beaded and only very near the base, the bead 

 rapidly and triangularly expanded at base. Legs well developed, the femora 

 moderately clavate, the anterior more strongly; hind tarsi filiform, the first 

 three joints subequaland slightly elongate, the fourth distinctly shorter; hind 

 coxae only moderately separated, the distance being equal to about % of their 

 individual width. Mesosternum strongly carinate. Length 1.25 mm. ; width 

 0.45 mm. 



California (San Francisco); British Columbia. 



The male has the abdomen simple, with the exception of the 

 fifth segment, which has on the disk near the apex two small and 

 feeble wart-like elevations, mutually separated by about ^ of the 

 width of the segment. The female does not differ appreciably 

 from the male. The pubescence of the head is sparse and irregu- 

 lar in arrangement, except at the sides on the tempora, where it 

 is coarse, abundant and directed posteriorly. This species is 

 abundant throughout the Pacific coast districts. 



COIVIVOPHROIV n. gen. 



The species separated under this name constitute by far the 

 largest and most characteristically American element of the 

 family, and the European fauna does not appear to possess any 

 types which can be associated with them, either in structure or 

 general facies. We in fact have here an example of the non-con- 

 formity frequently observable between the faunas of Europe and 

 eastern North America, as evidenced further in the genera Meli- 

 gethes, Bythinus, Tenebrioides, Otiorhynchus, Hymenorus and 

 numerous other instances, where large genera are confined prin- 

 cipally to one continent, although represented also in the other, 

 Connophron does not appear to extend into the true Pacific coast 

 fauna, which fact might rather have been anticipated than other- 

 wise, in consideration of its purely American origin ; it however 

 penetrates very nearly to that limit, being found in southern Cali- 

 fornia and eastern Oregon. 



In general structure Connophron is closely allied to Euconnus, 

 but differs in its conical prothorax, devoid of basal fovese, this 



