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what more closely punctate and almost evenly semi-elliptical, the 

 edges less narrowly reflexed than in tenera, the suture very fine, almost 

 obliterated; eyes (cf ) well developed, prominent, separated by twice 

 their width, the antennal club as long as the entire stem; prothorax 

 not quite twice as wide as long, the sides evenly arcuate and but 

 feebly converging throughout; apex very moderately sinuate, the 

 angles sharp, the basal obtuse, rather rounded; basal bead as in the 

 preceding; surface convex, minutely, feebly and sparsely punctate; 

 scutellum much more strongly and closely punctate; elytra cylindric, 

 nearly a third longer than wide, barely wider than the prothorax, 

 rounded posteriorly; surface with evenly spaced and scarcely im- 

 pressed series of moderate punctures throughout the width, the 

 second interval uniseriately punctate; pygidium shining, the 

 scratches short, extremely feeble and sparse; larger anterior claw 

 (cf ) rather slender, very gradually pointed, having above a short 

 and extremely fine ramus, the corresponding claw of the middle 

 tarsi very slender, the apex bifid, the upper process as long as the 

 lower but more slender; sterna with a few fine short hairs, almost 

 glabrous when compared with tenera. Length (cf) 7.0-8.0 mm.; 

 width 3.3-3.7 mm. Georgia and Florida. Six examples, the female 

 not at hand parvula Burm. 



Antennata, which is unknown to me, is a rather remarkable 

 exception in the subgenus in having both claws of the intermediate 

 male tarsi simple, and it also differs very much from the other two 

 in the concave clypeus. Tenera may be the species identified as 

 flavilla Bates, by Mr. Schaeffer, but the careful figure in the Biologia 

 shows that the latter is very much shorter and more oval in form; 

 the prothorax also is very much more transverse and with the form 

 and position of the two spots wholly different. 



Group II. 



Subgenus Oliganomala nov. 



The remarkable minute species upon which this subgenus is 

 founded, probably belongs to the West Indian fauna and was 

 described from Florida by Mr. Schwarz under the name Strigoderma 

 exigua. There is however no trace of ascending mesosternal 

 epimera and it is in every way, including type of elytral sculpture 

 and general facies, one of the Anomalid series and not a Strigo- 

 dermid. The ligula is somewhat smaller than usual in Anomala, 

 rather broadly truncate at apex, with the middle of the sides much 

 constricted and deeply sinuate over the insertion of the palpi. 

 The labrum is small, very feebly concave medially, shining and has 



