Coleopterological Notices, V. 309 



Pennsylvania. 



The single representative is probably a female, bnt the species is 

 very easily recognizable by reason of the peculiar form of the pro- 

 thorax, and the disposition of its vestiture. 



IV. parviceps n. sp. — Slender, thick, convex, black, the legs and an- 

 tennae throughout dark rufo-testaceous ; integuments rather shining; pubes- 

 cence fine, somewhat long, siibrecumbent and conspicuous ; punctuation 

 minute, moderately close, not conspicuous. Head small, orbicular, evenly 

 convex, much shorter and distinctly narrower than the prothoras ; eyea 

 moderate, at nearly twice their length from the base ; antennae stout, nearly 

 as long as the prothorax and elytra ; second joint as long as the next two, 

 third strongly obconical, longer than wide, four to ten forming a long, evenly 

 cylindrical, subperfoliate club, transverse, eleventh oblong, obtuse ; joints 

 from the fourth clothed with minute dense and even pubescence, without 

 sparse setse. Prothorax very nearly as long as wide, widest at apical third, 

 thence broadly arcuate around the entire apex, feebly convergent and nearly 

 straight to the obtuse basal angles ; base broadly arcuate ; disk evenly con- 

 vex, the pubescence oblique. Elytra parallel, slightly wider than long, one- 

 third longer and nearly one-half wider than the prothorax ; humeri distinctly 

 exposed and transverse at base ; disk strongly impressed just behind the 

 scutellum. Abdomen parallel, slightly but noticeably narrower than the 

 elytra, subequal in length to the anterior parts, the first three segments 

 deeply, the fourth very feebly impressed at base ; fifth a little longer than 

 the fourth. Legs moderate ; basal joint of the hind tarsi as long as the next 

 two combined. Length 2.0 mm. ; width 0.6 mm. 



Rhode Island. 



Readily distinguishable from the preceding by its entirely black 

 coloration, slightly less slender form, much longer prothorax, widest 

 more anteriorly, and by many other characters. 



OCALIA Erich. 



The species here brought to notice resembles the European punc- 

 ticoUis in general habitus, but differs apparently in the extremely 

 short and broadly angulate metasternal process behind the middle 

 coxae. 



0» vancoilTefi n. sp. —Moderately narrow, convex, black, the legs and 

 basal parts of the antennae rufo-testaceous ; integuments polished ; head and 

 pronotum very finely and rather sparsely punctate, the elytra more coarsely 

 and decidedly densely so, the abdomen very finely and sparsely; pubescence 

 short, decumbent, moderately close, very sparse on the abdomen. Head orbicu- 

 lar, as long as wide, slightly shorter and narrower than the prothorax, con- 

 vex ; eyes at a little more than their length from the base ; antennae long and 



