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bear each a very short and fine decumbent hair; prosternal process 

 bearing four or five long terminal setae. Male with sexual characters 

 of the abdomen exactly as in viduus, excepting that the sinus of the 

 fifth segment is about a third the total width and much deeper than in 

 that species, the short, broad and sharply pointed tooth of the third 

 segment similar. Length 1.4-1.78 mm.; width i.o-i.i mm. Iowa 

 (Iowa City), New York (the locality unrecorded) and an example 

 labeled "Exeter"- possibly in New Hampshire, which is rather 

 less broadly oval and with six setee at the tip of the prosternal process. 



Five male examples probatus n. sp. 



8 Form rather narrowly oval, somewhat more narrowly rounded 

 behind, convex, very smooth, polished and without trace of punctures 

 at any part above, piceous throughout, paler beneath, the legs still 

 paler; head rather more than half as wide as the prothorax, im- 

 punctate, unusually convex longitudinally; antennae shorter than 

 usual, the club shorter and broader, the tenth joint transverse; 

 prothorax more than twice as wide as long, of the usual outline, 

 unmargined but with a broad and feeble median lobe at base; 

 scutellum ogival, not paralleled by the basal elytral stria, the elytra 

 slightly longer than wide, parabolic, without trace of ground 

 sculpture at any part, the stria deeply impressed; prosternal process 

 with six long bristles at apex. Length 0.9-1.15 mm.; width 0.55 

 0.6 mm. New Mexico (Albuquerque), Texas (El Paso) and Cali- 

 fornia (Los Angeles Co.). My previous measurements were some- 

 what too great nanulus Csy. 



9 Elytra each with a distinct and sometimes sharply defined apical 



pale area; elytral punctures minute as usual 10 



Elytra unicolorous or nubilously and indefinitely pallescent apically. . 12 

 10 Apical pale areas of the elytra distinct though not sharply defined. 

 Body elongate-oval, very convex, polished, black, the apical pale 

 areas testaceous, their oblique anterior margins converging nearly 

 to the apex on the suture; under surface and legs ferruginous; head 

 half as wide as the prothorax, very minutely, remotely punctulate, 

 the eyes well developed and even more coarsely faceted than usual; 

 antennae long and slender; prothorax much more than twice as wide 

 as long, of the usual form, scarcely at all lobed or margined at base; 

 scutellum ogival, transversely strigilate; elytra distinctly longer than 

 wide, nearly three times as long as the prothorax, the sides very 

 feebly converging from the base to beyond the middle, then broadly 

 parabolic; surface with partial series of extremely minute punctules 

 and a deep subsutural stria, the ground sculpture throughout 

 consisting of fine and transversely wavy strigilation; prosternal 

 process with a close-set series of seven or eight long setae at apex. 

 Length 1.7 mm.; width i.o mm. Florida (Sanford), Blatchley. A 



single female limatus n. sp. 



Apical pale areas of the elyta sharply defined and conspicuous 1 1 



ii Form moderately stout, oval, very obtuse behind, convex, polished, 

 black, with the head and pronotum paler, sometimes rufo-piceous 

 throughout, the large pale spot on each elytron with its arcuate inner 

 margin attaining the apex near but not quite on the suture; under 



