610 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



near the sides and along a narrow median line of the pronotum, and 

 disposed in a nearly even single line along each elytral interval ; 

 intermediate areas of the pronotum clothed with exceedingly minute 

 setae ; scales of the under surface broadly oval and dense, except 

 toward the sides of the prothorax, where they are fine sparse and 

 subdenuded. Beak stout, moderately arcuate, varying in length 

 from scarcely as long as the prothorax to as long as the head and 

 prothorax, the antennae inserted a little beyond the middle, the basal 

 joint of the funicle as long as the next two, the second one-half 

 longer than the third, the club moderate, oval, densely pubescent, 

 with the basal joint much less than one-half the mass. Prosternum 

 not impressed, feebly, transversely constricted toward the middle 

 behind the apical margin, separating the anterior coxa? in the male 

 by less than one-fifth of their own width, but in the female by 

 a much more appreciable distance. Length 2.3-3.5 mm. ; width 

 0.8-1.4 mm. 



The series before me is from Massachusetts, District of Columbia 

 and Texas. The beak varies considerably in length, irrespective of 

 the usual sexual difference, which is not remarkably pronounced, 

 and the elytral squamules are sometimes distinctly shorter and 

 broader. I have retained the name given by LeConte to this 

 species, although it differs from Boheman's description of the 

 Mexican type in its piceous-black and not rufo-ferruginous legs, and 

 the statement "antennae apicem rostri propius insertae," is almost 

 irreconcilable. It is quite probable that there are several closely 

 allied species confounded here, but my material is not sufficiently 

 extensive to properly define them. 



2 IVicentrilS ingennus n. sp. — Oblong-oval, black and somewhat shin- 

 ing throughout, the legs with a feeble rufo-piceous tinge ; vestiture consisting 

 of pale yellowish scales, broad and dense beneath, elongate and narrower on 

 the elytra, where they are disposed in from one to two series on the intervals, 

 the lines of the third and fifth wider and more conspicuous ; on the pronotum 

 the squamules are very small, dark in color and entirely inconspicuous, except 

 in lateral fifth or sixth, where they become abruptly broad, denser and pale 

 yellowish, also visible along the median line especially toward base. Head 

 finely but strongly punctured, the impression very feeble, not foveate ; beak 

 moderately stout, cylindrical, deeply, densely punctate and subrugulose, not 

 quite as long as the head and prothorax, strongly, abruptly bent at base and 

 also strongly but more gradually arcuate toward apex ; antennae inserted just 

 beyond the middle, the basal joint of the funicle unusually short, not longer 

 than the next two, the second much more slender than the first and fully 

 three-fourths as long, subequal to the next two, club about as long as the four 



