Coleopterological Notices, VII. 509 



as the next two, thicker than the second, which is oval, narrowed at hase, ^ 

 longer than wide, nearly as long as the next two and somewhat thicker ; third 

 smallest, parallel, % wider than long, much narrower than the fourth, which 

 is fully as long as wide ; fourth to eighth increasing evenly and slowly in 

 width, eighth to tenth a little more rapidly ; fifth somewhat rounded, nearly 

 as long as wide ; sixth to tenth obtrapezoidal ; sixth and seventh %, eighth %, 

 ninth ^, tenth J^, wider than long ; eleventh barely as wide as the tenth, 

 conoidal, not as long as the two preceding, indented slightly and spongiose in- 

 ternally near the apex. Prothorax % wider than long, % wider than the head,, 

 widest slightly before the middle, the sides broadly rounded, becoming 

 straight toward base, the latter transverse, about as wide as the apex, vrhich is 

 broadly arcuate ; basal angles pronounced, not at all blunt ; disk evenly con- 

 vex, broadly impressed toward the hind angles, with a deep and rounded fovea 

 at the middle, and another at each side near the base, with a small feeble fovea 

 intermediate at each side and still more basal. Scutellum small, semicircular. 

 Elytra % longer than wide, more than twice as long as the prothorax and just 

 visibly wider ; sides parallel and feebly, evenly arcuate ; apex abbreviated 

 and broadly truncate ; each elytron with two subfoveate basal impressions, the 

 outer slightly the larger ; suture elevated at base about the scutellum. Ex- 

 posed part of the dorsal pygidium wider than long, moderately declivous, para- 

 bolic. Legs rather short, slender, the femora extremely feebly swollen ; hind 

 tarsi relatively very long, almost as long as the tibiae, very slender, with the 

 four basal joints decreasing very slowly in length. Basal segment of the ab- 

 domen almost as long as the next three and as long as the sixth, the latter 

 parabolic. Length 1.0 mm. ; width 0.38 mm. 



Pennsylvania ( Westmoreland Co.). Mr. Schmitt. 



The mesosternum is trapezoidal, flat, impunctate, extending to 

 the middle of the intermediate aeetabula and separated from the 

 metasternura by a fine subelevated suture ; the metasternal pro- 

 cess has two short, feebly diverging lines from the apex along the 

 margins of the aeetabula. The individual described is a male, 



VERAPHIS n. gen. 



The head and mesosternum in this genus differ very radically 

 from the same parts in Eutheia, and, as the name Buthiodes was 

 applied by Dr. Brendel to a type species described as Euthiodes 

 lata, which seems to difl'er generically from his Euthiodes [ Vera- 

 phis'] cristata, it becomes necessary to give It a new name. The 

 general form of the body, truncate elytra and exposed dorsal pygi- 

 dium are nearly as in Eutheia, but the upper surface is more con- 

 vex, the elytra more inflated, the antennae much more incrassate 

 at tip and the sculpture or punctuation of the integuments less 

 pronounced. 



Annals N. Y. Acad. Sci.,.IX, May, 1897.— 34. 



