398 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



strongly but gradually narrowed and broadly, feebly constricted 

 toward the apex, the latter three-fourths as wide as the base ; disk 

 convex, rather coarsely, deeply, densely punctate, widest behind the 

 middle. Elytra at base scarcely more than one-fourth wider than 

 the prothorax, just visibly more than twice as long, one-half longer 

 than wide, parallel in basal half, then regularly, acutely ogival, not 

 constricted before the apex ; striae deep but not very coarse. Tarsal 

 claws rather small, nearly parallel, connate toward base. Length 

 2.3 mm.; width 0.9 mm. 



Texas. Resembles scapalis, except in the color and disposition 

 of the scales and in its very much smaller size. 



21 S. connivens n. sp. — Oblong-oval, moderately stout and convex, 

 piceous-black, the beak, antennae and legs throughout rufous ; vestiture very- 

 dense and uniform, consisting of moderately large, coarsely strigose, grayish- 

 white scales, with intermixed recurved setae, concolorous, dense and but 

 slightly smaller on the under surface. Head not very densely squamulose, 

 the constriction feeble ; beak in the female very slender, gradually, just visi- 

 bly thicker from the antenna? to the base, feebly, evenly arcuate, polished and 

 impunctate in apical half, thence gradually more punctured, opaque and 

 sparsely, finely squamulose to the base, much longer than the head and pro- 

 thorax and about three-fifths as long as the elytra, the basal tufts composed 

 of long slender squamules ; antennae inserted at the middle, the second funi- 

 cular joint three-fourths as long as the first and about equal to the next two. 

 Prothorax very nearly as long as wide, the sides broadly arcuate, gradually 

 convergent, broadly and just visibly sinuate to the apex, the latter scarcely 

 more than two-thirds as wide as the base ; disk strongly, densely punctate 

 and subrugose, the punctures tending strongly to coalesce. Elytra at base 

 two-fifths wider than the prothorax, not quite three times as long, slightly 

 less than one-half longer than wide, the sides straight and parallel in basal 

 three-fifths, the apex evenly ogival ; striae indicated by coarse partings of the 

 vestiture. Legs rather long and decidedly slender ; tarsal claws as usual. 

 Length 2.3 mm. ; width 1.0 mm. 



Missouri (St. Louis). Mr. Hugo Soltau. 



A moderately small species, without any striking features, but 

 evidently different from any other here brought to notice. It ap- 

 pears to combine certain of the characteristics of sordidus and flavi- 

 cans, but differs from the former in its much shorter beak and medial 

 antennae in the female, and from the latter in the disposition of the 

 vestiture. It is represented by a single female specimen. 



22 S. seriatus Lee— Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 172. 



Oblong, rather convex, piceous, clothed densely with elongate- 

 oval scales, yellowish and confusedly, feebly nubilate with white 



