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Gercyon minusculus Melsh. 
In Horn’s synopsis of the genus this species of Melsheimer 
is for the first time relegated to synonymy and declared to be the 
same as the European granarius Erichs. Careful comparisons 
by Mr. Liebeck with the series of four specimens (Mass., Pa., 
D. C.) in the Horn collection upon which his conclusions were 
based, and by myself with the series of minusculus, so labelled, 
in the He Conte collection shows them to be identical. These 
and all examples of the very considerable series in the collections 
of Mr. Liebeck and myself agree in the strikingly deep and 
sharply impressed elytral striae, especially toward the apex. A 
European specimen of granarius in my own collection has the 
elytra much less deeply striate and the interspaces very finely 
punctulate, whereas in minusculus the punctures of the inter- 
spaces are much more distinct and scarcely at all finer than those 
of the prothorax. Granarius and minusculus are indeed closely 
allied, but so far as the evidence at hand goes I consider their 
identity unlikely, or at least unproven. 
Gercyon connivens new species. 
A small species of the luguhris — granarius — minusculus type. 
Form rather broadly oval, slightly attenuate behind, very 
strongly convex, black, the sides of the prothorax very narrow- 
ly tinged with rufous, the elytra with a sharply defined apical 
pale space which extends froward along the outer margins to 
about the middle. Head and thorax polished, densely moderate- 
ly finely punctate, elytra finely alutaceous and duller^ a little 
more shining however along the suture, the striae impressed and 
entire, a little deeper at sides and apex; interspaces sparsely 
punctulate, the punctures finer than those of the prothorax but 
quite distinct. Beneath piceous or rufopiceous, legs and an- 
tennae reddish brown, palpi a little paler; meso — and metaster- 
nal plates very densely and unusually coarsely punctate 
Length 1.6 to 2 mm.; width 1. to 1.3 mm. 
Of this species I have seen a considerable series from Cam- 
den, Gloucester and Anglesea, New Jersey, mostly collected by 
