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scutellum triangular, wider than long; elytra much longer than wide, 

 nearly two and one-half times as long as the prothorax, broadly 

 parabolic in fully posterior half, the sides less flaring basally, con- 

 tinuously arcuate; micro-reticulation rather coarse but feeble, the 

 wavy lines slightly evident; prosternal process with five long stiff 

 setae; mesosternum declivous from the tip of the metasternal process, 

 which is finely, acicularly punctate and setulose nearly throughout; 

 hind legs as usual in the pusillus group. Length 1.0-1.15 mm.; 

 width 0.55-0.6 mm. Texas (Galveston). Six examples. A note 

 attached to one of the specimens reads: Jumps about half an inch; 

 found in sand at roots of grasses. [S. pusillus Csy. nee Lee., pars, 

 olim.] galvestonicus n. sp. 



29 Form rather narrowly oblong-elliptic, shining though somewhat 

 alutaceous, piceous-black, gradually piceo-rufous posteriorly; entire 

 upper surface, including the head, rather strongly and evenly micro- 

 reticulate; head half as wide as the prothorax, not closely punctate; 

 antennae with the funicle slender and longer than the club, the 

 third joint as long as the next two, slender; prothorax much more 

 than twice as wide as long, the moderately converging sides evenly 

 arcuate; basal margination very fine; scutellum ogival, one-half 

 wider than long; elytra distinctly elongate, very broadly and obtusely 

 parabolic behind, the arcuate sides less flaring anteriorly; surface 

 with barely a trace of very minute punctulation, each point bearing 

 an infinitesimal decumbent hair; prosternal process not so abruptly 

 limited behind as usual, bearing about four short apical setae, of 

 which the two median are less apical than those at the angles; meta- 

 sternum very broad between the coxae, the mesosternum before it 

 well developed, gradually and convexly declivous; hind tibiae rather 

 slender, the tarsi short, clothed with stiff hairs, scarcely more than 

 half as long as the tibiae and with the second joint barely one-half 

 longer than the first; anterior tarsi rather dilated, with dense erect 

 coarse capitulate hairs beneath. Length 1.2-1.25 rnm.; width 

 0.75 mm. New Jersey (Cape May). Four examples, very uniform 

 in size subalutaceus Csy. 



Form still narrower than in the preceding and smaller in size, black, the 

 under surface piceous; entire upper surface and head similarly micro- 

 reticulate; head rather distinctly more than half as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, the antennae nearly as in the preceding; prothorax not more 

 than twice as wide as long and fully three-sevenths as long as the 

 elytra, the moderately converging sides somewhat strongly arcuate; 

 basal margination rather strong; scutellum transversely ogival; 

 elytra distinctly elongate, rather acutely parabolic, the arcuate sides 

 only slightly less flaring anteriorly; surface with a few impressed lines 

 but without distinct trace of punctures, excepting the infinitesimal 

 hairs; stria very fine, faintly impressed and shorter even than in the 

 preceding species; prosternal process with the flaring tip somewhat 

 deflexed, not bearing setae in the type; metasternum much narrower 

 between the coxae than in subalutaceus, the mesosternum well de- 

 veloped, tumid and gradually declivous; hind tarsi a little longer 



