Goleopterological Notices, VII. 625 



coarseness and rather sparse but pale in color and distinct. Head slightly nar- 

 rower than the prothorax, about as long as wide, triangular, the eyes relatively 

 rather small. Antennse- normal, rapidly incrassate at tip, about % ^s long as 

 the body. Prothorax more than % "wider than long, fully % as wide as the 

 elytra, parallel, slightly narrowed at apex; surface convex, smooth and pol- 

 ished, the median fovea extending only slightly beyond basal third. Elytra 

 nearly ^ widtr than long, the sides distinctly divergent and only very feebly 

 arcuate from the rather pronounced humeral swelling; disk depressed, ob- 

 liquely impressed at the middle toward the flanks; striae normal, the discal 

 distinctly abbreviated before the tip. Abdomen somewhat wider than the 

 elytra and quite distinctly longer, the legs slender. Length 1.35 mm.; width 

 0.55 mm. 



Texas (locality unrecorded). 



The single example of this very distinct form before me is a 

 female, and it is the only species represented by that sex alone 

 which I can A^enture to define. The singular oblique impressions 

 of the elytra are without much doubt normal, as they are bilater- 

 ally symmetric. 



P. consohrinus of LeConte, is well distinguished from ^uy of 

 those treated of above by its denser vestiture, relatively shorter 

 last antennal joint and other characters. The sexual differences 

 in the antennae, eyes and elj'tra are of the same nature as in the 

 others, but the elj^tra differ more than usual, being very short and 

 transverse in the female, while in the male they are nearly as long 

 as wide. My specimens are from New Jersey' and Virginia (Nor- 

 folk). 



In pulvereus Lee, the eyes in the male are much smaller than 

 in the same sex of any other species known to me, and it may be 

 readily recognized by this character as well as by its large size 

 and habitat. Ocularis and ahruptus have already been described 

 at sufficient length (Col. Not. Y, p. 502). 



Tyrini. 

 CEDIUS Lee. 



In this well-marked genus the body is rather stout and very 

 convex, the antennse enlarged distally, the eighth joint obliquely 

 produced and pointed within at tip, partially enclosing the ninth, 

 the remainder gradually enlarged but not obviously modified, the 

 eleventh affixed somewhat obliquely to the tenth. The head is 

 nearly as in Pilopius, with moderately large, subbasal and more 

 finely faceted e^^es and three fovese, the posterior much more 



