Coleopterological Notices, VII. 623 



than long and nearly as wide as the prothorax; eyes large. Antennse fully as 

 long as the body excepting the abdomen, pale rufous throughout, only moder- 

 ately incrassate toward tip, the tenth joint but little longer than wide and 

 somewhat shorter than the ninth. Proth&rax y}q\\ developed, fully" J^ wider 

 than long, distinctly more than % as wide as the elytra, narrowed only near 

 the apex; median fovea not extending quite to the middle. Elytra only 

 slightly shorter than wide, the sides rather strongly divergent from the broadly 

 and moderately swollen humeri, becoming arcuate toward tip; strise coarse, 

 the discal expanding and disappearing before the apex. Abdomen a little nar- 

 rower and much shorter than the elytra. Length 1.7-1.8 mm.; width 0.7- 

 0.8 mm. 



New York (Willets Point, Long Island), 



The female is much larger and stouter than the male described 

 above, with the antennee f as long as the body, the eyes smaller, 

 the fovese more widely separated, the prothorax relatively a little 

 smaller and with more obsolete sculpture, the elytra shorter, trans- 

 verse, with more rapidly diverging and straighter sides and the 

 abdomen very broad with arcuate sides, wider than the elytra and 

 fully as long. It may be distinguished from piceus by the larger 

 head, larger, granulose and more transverse prothorax and less ab- 

 breviated elytra. 



P. floridanus. — Eather stout, the upper surface only moderately con- 

 vex, subimpunctate and rather shining throughout ; body, legs and antennse 

 dark rufo-testaceous, the abdomen black ; vestiture appressed, moderate in 

 length, coarse, pale, somewhat abundant and distinct. Head about as wide as 

 the prothorax, slightly wider than long, the eyes large and very prominent, 

 separated by about 2}4, times their own width ; foveas normal. Antennse long 

 and rather slender, only just visibly incrassate toward tip, a little longer than 

 the head, prothorax and elytra combined ; eleventh joint fully three times as 

 long as wide ; tenth elongate and equal to the ninth. Prothorax nearly }4, 

 wider than long, parallel, abruptly narrowed only very near the apex, the 

 latter very broadly and transversely truncate ; surface minutely, feebly and 

 sparsely asperato-punctulate ; fovese normal. Elytra well developed, as long 

 as the head and prothorax and obviously less than twice as wide as the latter, 

 nearly as long as wide ; humeral swelling scarcely at all prominent, the sides 

 strongly divergent almost from the base and nearly straight, becoming broadly 

 arcuate in apical half ; strise moderate, the discal not attaining the apex and 

 only feebly arcuate. Abdomen as wide as the elytra but much shorter. 

 Length 1.75 mm. ; width 0.7 mm. 



Florida. 



This species is rather closely allied to granicoUis, but differs in 

 the much less thickened apical parts of the antennse, smoother 

 pronotum and more broadly squamiform vestiture of the ventral 

 segments. I have not seen the female. 



