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similar; tarsal claws nearly as in oblivia, except that the upper 

 ramus in the female is relatively shorter and more slender. 

 Length (d") 7.0-8.0, (9) 8.2-9.2 mm.; width (o 71 ) 3-7-4-7. (?) 

 4.2-5.3 mm. New Jersey (seashore at Atlantic City). Very 

 abundant maritima n. subsp. 



As intimated above, the Central American Anomala nitidula of 

 Blanchard, may be regarded as a member of this subgenus and has 

 the basal thoracic beading similarly fine, fragmentary and vestigial, 

 but the elytral striae are much more feebly impressed and the 

 anterior edge of the clypeus, viewed anteriorly, is thinner, convex 

 and does not have the flattened inferiorly acutely margined form 

 prevailing in the northern species, which resemble the true Spilota and 

 some of the true Anomalce in this respect. The hairs of the under 

 surface in nitidula are longer and more conspicuous, and the larger 

 anterior claw in my two specimens, which are apparently female, 

 is rather stout, coarsely cleft nearly to the middle, with the upper 

 lobe a little longer than the lower though subequal to it in thickness. 

 There is only a slight tendency in the mes-epimera to ascend 

 before the elytral humeri, and this peculiarity is not sufficiently 

 developed to ally the species in any way closely with the Strigo- 

 dermids, especially in view of its very different and purely Spilotid 

 facies. It is my conviction that the aberrant Mexican micans of 

 Burmeister, can also enter this subgenus very well, with the same 

 statement in regard to the mes-epimera as in the case of nitidula; 

 in general habitus it agrees very well, except that the elytral sulci 

 are deeper, closer and more even, and that there .is no trace of a 

 basal thoracic bead. 



Group IV. 

 Subgenus Zaspilota nov. 



Of this subgenus there are at hand two individuals, one a male, 

 with the larger anterior claw stout, deeply bifid, the upper lobe 

 moderately slender, aciculate, continuing the direction of the upper 

 margin of the claw, while the lower is much thicker, rapidly deflexed, 

 becoming rapidly acute at tip and a little longer than the upper, 

 so that the two rami diverge more than in some other forms of the 

 claw. The other is a female, having the corresponding claw longer, 

 more slender and more symmetrically and almost as deeply cleft 

 at apex. The male has the head and eyes relatively much less 



