Coleopterological Notices, IV. 595 



vestiture consisting of yellowish-white scales, broad and dense beneath, but 

 sparse and generally slender toward the sides of the prothorax ; on the upper 

 surface they are rather broadly oval on the elytra behind the middle and 

 near the scutellum, but elsewhere slightly narrower ; on the pronotum narrow 

 toward the sides and before the scutellum, but elsewhere very sparse, finer 

 and hairlike. Head dull, very minutely, sparsely punctured, the beak in the 

 female about one-half as long as the body, strongly and abruptly arcuate at 

 the base, perceptibly flattened toward apex, deeply punctate at the sides 

 toward base, the antennae inserted well behind the middle, the basal joint of 

 the funicle elongate, nearly as long as the next four together, second rather 

 slender, not one-half as long as the first, not quite as long as the next two, 

 the club small and especially very short, not more than one-third longer than 

 wide and but slightly longer than the preceding three joints together, very 

 abrupt, densely pubescent, with the basal joint constituting not quite one- 

 half the mass. Prothorax rather short, two-thirds wider than long, the sides 

 convergent and broadly arcuate from the base to the distinctly constricted 

 apex, the latter almost tubulate and fully one-half as wide as the base, the 

 latter straight and transverse, the median lobe small and prominent ; disk 

 rather coarsely punctate, the punctures shallow, close but not contiguous, 

 with a narrow, more or less distinctly defined impunctate line. Scutellum 

 truncate, not as long as wide. Elytra a little more than twice as long as the 

 prothorax, and, at the small, rather prominent humeri, perceptibly wider 

 than the latter ; sides thence strongly convergent to the narrowly rounded 

 apex and feebly arcuate ; disk rather finely but deeply striate, the intervals 

 between two and three times as wide as the grooves, flat, not very coarsely, 

 moderately closely, strongly punctato rugnlose. Prosternum broadly, scarcely 

 visibly impressed, the anterior coxae separated by about one-half of their own 

 width. Length 2.6-3.0 mm. ; width 1.2-1.5 mm. 



Texas (Columbus). Mr. Schwarz. 



This species is allied to capillatus, but differs in the much broader 

 and more uneven scales of the elytra, and in its very pale bright 

 rufous legs. 



IX. 



24 Centrinus falsiis Lee— Proe. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 315. 



Oval, convex, black, the legs more or less rufo-piceous, moder- 

 ately shining ; vestiture whitish, consisting of very slender lineate 

 squamules, sparse on the pronotum, closer and a little broader on 

 the elytra, where they tend to aggregate in a broad line along the 

 middle of the intervals ; beneath they are denser wider and squami- 

 form. Beak rather robust, moderately arcuate, a little longer than 

 the head and prothorax, the antennse inserted distinctly beyond the 

 middle, the second funicular joint cylindrical, about one-half as long 

 as the first and as long as the next two, the club well developed, 



