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and flat in both sexes; first two ventrals sometimes with a very few 

 moderate punctures. Length (cf 9 ) 6.5-7.5 mm.; width 2.8-3.4 

 mm. Michigan (Marquette), Sherman. Twenty-one examples. 



brumalis n. sp. 

 5 Larger species, always much over 6 mm. in length; lateral ocellate 



series not medially interrupted 6 



Small species, between 5 and 6 mm. in length 8 



6 Outer thoracic fovea not extending to the basal margin. Body elon- 

 gate, subparallel, moderately convex, black to dark fulvous, with 

 feeble senescent lustre above and shining, the elytra alutaceous (9 ), 

 polished (cf ), black beneath, the legs obscure rufous, the femora 

 piceous; head more than half as wide as the prothorax, with notably 

 prominent eyes, the strides rather deep but fine and subparallel; 

 antennae slender, obscure rufous, rather clearer at base, extending 

 about to the thoracic base ( 9 ) or much further (cf); prothorax 

 barely more than one-half wider than long, the sides broadly arcu- 

 ate and finely, sharply re flexed, subparallel and arcuate basally, 

 broadly arcuate and converging from rather behind the middle to 

 the slightly prominent and bluntly rounded apical angles, the apex 

 moderately sinuate and very much narrower than the base; fovese 

 rather large, broadly impressed and with numerous moderate punc- 

 tures, the outer oblique; sides and the remainder of the surface 

 wholly impunctate; elytra nearly one-half longer than wide, obtusely 

 ogival at apex, very slightly wider than the prothorax, the feebly 

 arcuate sides narrowly reflexed; striae very fine (9 ), impressed (cf), 

 the scutellar moderate; intervals wide, convex (cf), very flat (9); 

 abdomen at the sides basally with rather numerous small punctures. 

 Length (cf 9 ) 7.5 mm.; width 3.5 mm. Michigan (Marquette), 



Sherman. Two examples paganica n. sp. 



Outer thoracic fovea extending to the basal margin 7 



7 Body moderately stout, piceous-black, sometimes with feeble senes- 

 cent lustre, polished above, the thoracic sides slightly diaphanous, 

 the elytra only moderately alutaceous in the female; under surface 

 nearly black to obscure rufous, the legs rufous, the anterior femora 

 sometimes blackish; head barely more than half as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, with rather feebly convex eyes and moderate convergent 

 strioles: antennae testaceous, slender, extending far behind the tho- 

 racic base; prothorax three-fifths wider than long, the sides broadly 

 arcuate, more strongly so and converging anteriorly, generally just 

 visibly converging and nearly straight from the middle to the base, 

 not broadly but strongly reflexed ; apex much narrower than the base, 

 very moderately sinuate, the angles prominent but narrowly blunt; 

 surface nearly as in the preceding, the foveal punctures numerous, 

 moderate in size; margins punctureless as a rule; elytra nearly one- 

 half longer than wide, very little wider than the prothorax, rather 

 gradually ogival in more than apical third; striae fine but distinct, 

 sometimes feebly punctulate toward the suture, the scutellar rather 

 long, not free; intervals nearly flat, sometimes feebly convex api- 

 cally; abdomen with but few punctures latero-basally; middle male 

 tibiae slightly bent. Length (cf 9 ) 6.7-7.8 mm.; width 2.8-3.5 



