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large and remarkably prominent eyes and very small but linear 

 strides; antennae long, extending far behind the prothorax, slender 

 on the uncompressed side, pale ferruginous; prothorax only a third 

 wider than long, the sides very moderately, evenly converging from 

 base to apex and feebly, evenly arcuate, only just visibly more con- 

 verging apically; apex nearly four-fifths as wide as the base, very 

 feebly sinuate or sinuato-truncate, with rounded angles; basal angles 

 right, with the tips slightly blunt; basal impression feeble, the apical 

 obsolete, the stria very fine; punctures virtually wanting, the fovese 

 so feeble as to be undefinable; postero-lateral parts evidently flat- 

 tened; elytra not quite one-half longer than wide and very slightly 

 wider than the prothorax, rather gradually rounding behind, the 

 sides broadly arcuate; striae very fine, feebly impressed, minutely 

 and not closely punctulate, the scutellar long, oblique, not free pos- 

 teriorly; lateral series not definitely interrupted; intervals feebly 

 convex. Length (cf) 4.5 mm.; width 1.8 mm. Virginia (Fortress 



Monroe) scintilla n. sp. 



29 Size smaller, the form, especially, shorter than in either of the two 

 preceding, blackish, the anterior parts and under surface obscure, 

 the legs brighter, rufous; surface polished in both sexes; head three- 

 fifths as wide as the prothorax, with rather small and very prom- 

 inent eyes, the ferruginous antennae extending far behind the tho- 

 racic base in both sexes, though shorter in the female than in the 

 male; prothorax much shorter than in the two preceding, one-half 

 to nearly three-fifths wider than long, the apex fully three-fourths 

 as wide as the base and barely visibly sinuate, with very broadly 

 rounded angles; sides evenly rounded; basal angles very much more 

 than right, though scarcely blunt; posterior impression feeble, the 

 anterior obsolete, the stria very fine; foveal punctures small and 

 extremely few or wanting, the inner fovea broadly impressed, sub- 

 linear, the outer very small, rounded and so feeble as to be almost 

 invisible; surface sometimes but not always flattened postero-later- 

 ally; margin very finely reflexed; elytra a third to two-fifths longer 

 than wide, slightly (cf) or much (9) wider than the prothorax, 

 somewhat rapidly ogival behind; striae fine, feebly impressed, slightly 

 punctulate, sometimes virtually impunctate, the scutellar notably 

 short, oblique; lateral series narrowly interrupted; intervals distinctly 

 though not strongly convex in both sexes. Length (cf 9 ) 3.9-4.4 

 mm.; width 1.7-2.0 mm. North Carolina (Southern Pines), 

 Manee. Three examples brevitarsis n. sp. 



The species named rubrica by Haldeman, remains unknown, and 

 I have seen nothing corresponding closely with the short diagnosis 

 of the author; this is wholly insufficient to discriminate it among 

 the numerous other pallid species, and the dimensions given by 

 Haldeman 8 by 3 mm. very greatly exceed those of any other 

 species of this group known to me at present. I doubt also that 

 the original type is still in existence. Ferruginea Csy., which was 



