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feebly and almost evenly arcuate, there being a feeble prominence near 

 basal fourth; surface finely, rather sparsely and very evenly punctate, 

 more closely between the strong sublateral grooves and the sides; scutel- 

 lum finely, rather closely punctate; elytra oblong, one-half longer than 

 wide, fully as wide as the thoracic apex and three times as long as the 

 pronotum, the parallel sides evenly arcuate, the apex rapidly and ob- 

 tusely rounded; surface very shining, each having three subcarinuliform 

 striae and a strong sublateral costule bordered within by a regular line of 

 very close-set punctures; intervals minutely and confusedly, rather 

 sparsely punctulate; abdomen finely, sparsely punctate. Female smaller 

 than the male, with much smaller head and shorter antennae, the punc- 

 tures everywhere stronger and closer. Length (i cf 111., 2 9 Ks.) 

 2.4-3.7 mm.; width 1.0-1.4 nim. Illinois and Kansas. 



While allied to fasciatus Mels., this spe.cies differs in its larger 

 size, more elongate form, very much longer antennae, stronger 

 though almost equally sparse punctures, longer elytra, with the 

 strise less coarsely impressed and in the individually elongate-oval 

 and narrow, and not broad and subfasciate, character of the elytral 

 pale spots, the comparison being made with a very fully developed 

 male of fasciatus. The larger of the above measurements refer to the 

 male type. As usual in species of this type the anterior acetabula 

 are narrowly but clearly open behind. 



Laemophlceus californicus n. sp. Male in outline almost exactly as in 

 the preceding, pale red-brown in color, each elytron with a large rounded 

 nubilous pallid spot just before the middle; pubescence short and de- 

 cumbent but abundant and distinct; integuments highly polished and 

 completely non-reticulate; head barely as wide as the prothorax, with 

 complete ambient stria but without trace of a striiform line along the 

 middle; punctures not coarse but deep and perforate, very dense, be- 

 coming slightly separated medially; labrum large, subtrapezoidal, finely 

 punctulate; eyes large, almost twice as long as the converging tempora, 

 which, as usual in the fasciatus group, continue evenly the outline of the 

 eye; antennae filiform, moderately slender, extending to about the middle 

 of the elytra, moderately pubescent internally, the basal joint not quite 

 as long as the next two and three-fourths thicker, evenly oval, second 

 shorter than the third, equal to the fourth, the last joint but little longer 

 than the tenth, straight, gradually wider toward tip; prothorax three- 

 fourths wider than long, the outline otherwise as in the preceding, the 

 edges very faintly nodulate, the cusp near basal fourth distinct; surface 

 deeply and densely punctate, less densely so medially, with a distinct 

 impression just behind the middle and adjacent to each of the cariniform 

 sublateral lines; scutellum finely, closely punctate; elytra between two 

 and three times as long as the prothorax, less than one-half longer than 

 wide, the outline and striation nearly as in the preceding, except that the 

 subsutural carinule only extends to slightly before the middle of the 

 length, the irregularly arranged punctures stronger and very close-set; 



