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the elytra rather paler than the anterior parts, highly polished above; 

 under surface piceous-black, the legs dark rufous; head nearly as 

 long as wide, distinctly more than half as wide as the prothorax; eyes 

 very convex and prominent, the strioles short, oblique; antennae pale 

 ferruginous, slender, moderately long and extending behind the tho- 

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

 feebly reflexed, just visibly converging and nearly straight from the 

 rather rounded basal angles to beyond the middle, then gradually 

 more rounded and moderately converging to the apex, which is 

 nearly three-fourths as wide as the base, very feebly sinuate and 

 with broadly blunt angles; surface very smooth, the impressions 

 barely traceable, the stria fine, much abbreviated; base with some 

 scattered punctures throughout except medially; inner fovea short, 

 deep, linear, the outer moderately deep, oblique; elytra two-fifths 

 longer than wide, obtusely rounded in about apical third, the sides 

 feebly arcuate; surface micro-reticulate; humeri projecting very 

 slightly outside the thoracic base; striae fine, impunctate, slightly im- 

 pressed, the scutellar short, oblique, free at tip; lateral series nar- 

 rowly interrupted; intervals very feebly convex; central spot of the 

 male prosternum larger, oval, simply flattened and very finely punc- 

 tulate; abdominal apex with a single puncture at each side in the 

 male. Length (cf) 6.4 mm.; width 2.65 mm. 'New York (Wyan- 

 danch, Long Island), Schott sphaerops n. sp. 



17 Line of ocellate punctures of the eighth elytral stria not at all inter- 

 rupted. Body small in size, deep black, shining, the elytra moder- 

 ately alutaceous in the female; under surface black, the legs piceous 

 or partially blackish; head nearly three-fifths as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, with prominent though moderate eyes and rather long deep 

 oblique foveoles; antennae piceous, gradually testaceous basally, ex- 

 tending somewhat beyond the thoracic base; prothorax three-fifths 

 wider than long, convex, the sides subevenly rounded, rather more 

 converging apically than basally; apex fully three-fourths as wide 

 as the base, distinctly sinuate, with broadly blunt angles, the basal 

 nearly right, not blunt; impressions feeble, the anterior obsolescent; 

 foveal regions with very few small punctures, the stria fine, suben- 

 tire ; foveae well impressed, the inner narrowly linear, the outer shorter 

 and oblique; elytra a third longer than wide, barely visibly wider 

 than the prothorax, rather gradually rounding behind, the parallel 

 sides feebly arcuate, the thoracic and elytral bases equal; striae 

 rather fine, feebly but obviously impressed, impunctate, the scu- 

 tellar short, oblique; intervals not quite flat; punctures of each pair 

 at the abdominal apex of the female unusually close-set. Length 

 (9) 5.8 mm.; width 2.7 mm. A single example, unlabeled in the 

 Levette collection but probably from Colorado merula n. sp. 



Line of punctures distinctly and more or less widely interrupted sub- 

 medially ; body larger 1 8 



18 Elytra inflated, widest at or slightly behind the middle, with arcuate 

 sides. Body short, stout, convex, deep black, shining, the elytra 

 distinctly micro-reticulate and slightly alutaceous in the male; under 

 surface black, the legs dark piceo-rufous; head rather large, more 



