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club, are materially longer and larger in the male; the club is re- 

 ceived in a closely fitting fossa and is not so loosely sheltered as in 

 Trogoderma. The species are extremely numerous in the drier 

 western country and in Mexico, but are comparatively few in the 

 Atlantic regions. At the time of my revision of the genus, picicorne 

 Lee., was not known to me, but recently Mr. Frost has sent me some 

 examples, taken by him at Framingham, Massachusetts, that seem 

 to fit the original few lines of description very well; it is of more 

 broadly oval form than ruficorne Lee., and is much more strongly 

 and closely punctate above and beneath; similarly, however, it is of 

 a uniform deep black color throughout, with fine inconspicuous 

 fuscous vestiture, but the tibiae and tarsi are always blackish and 

 not rufescent as in ruficorne; the latter has been taken by Mr. Manee 

 at Southern Pines, North Carolina. It is singular that triste Lee., 

 should still persist in figuring, at least in part, as an Atlantic coast 

 species, as recorded in the Torre catalogue of 1911, page 76; it is 

 wholly and completely a Pacific coast species and was described by 

 LeConte as from San Jose, California; nigricorne Lee., apparently 

 does not differ from it specifically. In the course of years unde- 

 scribed species have accumulated in our collections in large numbers, 

 and for the sake of completeness in our records, I define below those 

 known to me as follows: 



Elytra with variegated pubescence. 



Cryptorhopalum insigne n. sp. -Broadly ovoidal, strongly convex, 

 piceous-black, shining, the elytra and under surface duller because of the 

 dense punctuation; head small, densely punctured, the ocellus large, pale 

 and conspicuous; antennae (cf ) extending nearly to basal third of the 

 prothorax, ferruginous, the basal joint fuscous, the club evenly oval, much 

 longer than the entire remainder and with its first joint but little longer 

 than the second, or ( 9 ) only extending through two-fifths of the prothorax, 

 the club similarly proportioned but equal in length to the remainder; pro- 

 thorax twice as wide as the median length, the sides moderately converging 

 and very strongly arcuate (cT), or strongly converging and feebly arcuate 

 ( 9 ), the basal lobe abrupt and strong; surface with very coarse vestiture, 

 broadly yellowish toward the sides and at the basal lobe, the punctures 

 minute and well separated; scutellum nearly smooth; elytra two-fifths 

 longer than wide, at the rather swollen humeri distinctly wider than the 

 prothorax, strongly, closely, subasperately punctate; pubescence coarse, 

 pale at base except laterally, in a post-humeral spot, in a transverse fascia 

 interrupted at the suture and broadly near each side, in another broader 

 interrupted fascia just behind apical third, forming four large spots, and, 



