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Show 297 prolonged, divergent, finely carinate near the side margin. Elytra finely striate; interspaces flat, pnnctulate; antennae strongly serrate; second joint small; third triang u l a r , equal to the fourth. Length, 14 mm = 0.55 inch. Northern New Mexico. This species resembles in appearance Corymbiie8 pyrrhos, but f h e hind angles of the prothorax are less prolonged, and the antennae are more strongly serrate. It also resembles Athem oucullatus, but differs by the antennae being more strongly serrate, and also by the front being not reflexed. It is an intermediate bet w e e n these two species of different genera, though differing from both by the broader antenna). The tarsal lobes are less developed than in the other species of Asaphes, a n d the anterior margin of the front is somewhat above the labrum, and rather well defined. A careful examination of this species convinces me that the genera CorymUtet, Aeaph. es, and Athou*, as at present comprehended, should be united; an opiuion which has been already expressed by ray learned friend, Dr. Candeze ( Elat., iii, 208), and - which he would have announced more definitely had he not attached too great importance to the authority of Kirby, Gerinar, Lacordaire, and myself. OOLLOPS, Er. 6. C. hirtellus.- Above clothed with long, erect, black hair; head and prothorax greenish black, shining, feebly pnnctulate. Elytra blue, deeply but finely punctured. Epistoma, margin of labrum and first joint of antennae testaceous: abdomen testaceous, with large, lateral, black spots; legs nearly black. Length, 4.5 , = 0.45 inch. Northern New Mexico, found on Taos Peak, 13,000 feet elevation. 7. C. reflexiM.- Above clothed with long, erect, black hair; head and prothorax scarcely punctnlate, black; side margin of the latter strongly reflexed, especially toward the base, brownish. Elytra very densely and finely punctured, without luster. Antenn ® testaceous, in the 9 spotted with brown. Legs black; abdomen pale testaceous, with the last segment black ; epistoma and labrum testaceous. Length, 5 ram = 0.20 inch. Northern New Mexico. MALACHIUS, Fabr. - 8. At. montanne.- Elongate, greenish black, not polished, slightly pruinose, with very short pubescence; head with a deep impression; epistoma white. Prothorax wider than long, rounded on the sides, which are feebly reflexed toward the base, narrowly bordered on the sides with red. Elytra finely scabrous; apical margin pale beneath, and legs black. Length, 3.5 ™ m = 0.14 inch. Northern New Mexico. The antenna* are pectinate in the <?, and the elytra are not appendiculate. This species is related to M. Ulkei, Horn, but differs by the prothorax being only narrowly bordered with red, and by the apical margin of the elytra being pale. PODABRUS, Fischer. 5. P. lateralis.- Elongate, slender, black, very finely pubescent; head feebly punctu-late, opaque, alutaceous ; in front of- the eyes testaceous. Prothorax nearly as long as wide, subquadrate, rounded on the sides in front of the middle ; front angles rounded ; hind angles small, prominent; disk punctulate, longitudinally concave, with two large convexities, also broadly impressed transversely in front, with the apical margin reflexed ; dorsal line finely impressed; sides narrowly margined and pale. Elytra finely scabroos, opaque. Beneath, legs and antennie black. Length, 7inm= 0.28 inch. Colorado and Northern New Mexico; found on Mount Taos, at 13,000 feet elevation. The antenna? of the <? are rather longer and stouter, and the second joint comparatively smaller, than in the $ . Belongs with P. Iwvicollis, puncticollis, & c, but is quite distinct by the characters given above. The claws are appendiculate. * HYDNOCERA, Newman. 9. H. liamaia,- Black bronze, with a jrreeu reflexion on the head and prothorax ; thin 1 y c- lotucd with urect white h ai rs. Elytra sparsely, 11ot very acroucly, pu11rrured, with a large, common, pale, spot diverging from the latere, and broadly hooked behind the middle. Antenna, palpi, and le^ s testaceous. Length SA ™ * 1' = 0- V\ inch. One specimen. Northern New Mexico. Very closely allied to H. palHpmniM, but. the head and prothorax wife lees opt que, leas nlu tactions, and more distinctly rugose; the • elytra! markings are also diffrreut; the arratigemeut of color might ho eqnally well |