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ings. The antenna' reach l>ark to the middle of the thorax and are of the 

 same general .structure as those of B. (tniidttix Kr. (except for the slighter 

 enlargement of the liasal joint apically), with which this species agrees well 

 both in size and general appearance. The thorax is shorter than the head, 

 uniformly, heavily, and coarsely granulate, much more heavily than the 

 head, the granulations being rather ovate than round. The legs are of 

 much the same structure as in /.'. urni/ttns, excepting that the hind tibiae are 

 not ipiite so enlarged apically, but the legs are slightly shorter. The elytra 

 are granulate like the thorax and much longer than it, The thoracic sterna 

 are almost equally granulate, while the abdomen, which in the last two or 

 three joints tapers to a blunt point, is less heavily and less densely granu- 

 late, and here the granulations seem to be the bases of short delicate hairs. 



Length, 6.65 mm.: of antenna;, 1.2 mm.; breadth of abdomen behind 

 the elytra, 1.5 mm.; length of abdomen, 3.65 mm.; of hind legs, 2.75 mm. 



Florissant, Colorado; two specimens, Nos. 2337, 11313. 



It is possible that the specimen numbered 1.520 in the Princeton 

 museum may belong here, though a larger and somewhat stouter insect 

 appears to be indicated, and it is too imperfectly preserved to be sure that 

 it is genetically the same. 



Named for my versatile friend, Edward S. Morse, of Salem, in memory 

 ( if student days together under Agassiz. 



BLEDIUS SOLI sp. nov. 

 PI. VITI. figs, lo, 14. 



The head is elongated rather than transverse; its surface, excepting on 

 the neck below, where it is marked exactly as in B. morsel, is granulate but 

 not prominently. The antenna- reach to the middle of the thorax and 

 agree entirely in form and structure with those of B. morsel. Thorax shorter 

 than the head, nearly half as broad again as long, with gently convex sides, 

 the surface very coarsely granulate. Legs agreeing exactly with those of 

 B. morsel, but they are, if different, even shorter. Elytra as long as the 

 thorax and half the head, rather broader than long, at base only a little 

 broader than the thorax, coarsely granulate. Abdomen longer than the rest 

 of the body, narrower at base than the elytra, gradually tapering to a 

 bluntly rounded, narrow tip, coarsely granulate like thorax and elytra. 

 The whole body is piceous. 



