62 MEMOIRS ON THE COLEOPTERA 



Body in form somewhat as in pygmcea but larger; elytra dark brown to 

 fulvous; head and pronotum brownish-metallic, in the paler examples 

 with the side margins of the latter also pale; head and clypeus 

 coarsely and densely punctate; clypeus with the edges moderately 

 reflexed, the suture impressed; prothorax twice as wide as long, the 

 sides arcuate slightly before the middle, parallel behind, obliquely 

 converging to the anterior angles, which are right; surface coarsely 

 and rather densely punctate, feebly impressed on each side, sparsely 

 clothed with moderately long pale hairs; scutellum with a few coarse 

 and irregularly distributed punctures; elytra slightly longer than 

 wide, feebly arcuate at the sides, the three or four striae nearest the 

 suture regular, the others more or less confused, rather coarsely 

 punctate; pygidium rugose; hind tibiae wide and short, about twice 

 as long as the apical thickness; last abdominal segment finely and 

 densely punctulate, the other segments much more coarsely and 

 sparsely; under surface and legs sparsely pubescent, the hairs 

 cinereous. Length (cf) 8 mm. Texas (Galveston). Taken by 

 Prof. Snow. [Strigoderma latitibia Schf.j latitibia Schf. 



The comparative dimensions of the prothorax and elytra in 

 latitibia, would have to be grossly misstated in the description, 

 above quoted from the original, in order to bring it into any decided 

 harmony with parviceps and I have no doubt that the two species 

 are different. The elytral striae in parviceps are all regular and 

 clearly defined. The climatic conditions of Galveston and Del Rio 

 are radically unlike, the one being very moist and the other exceed- 

 ingly dry and arid. The genus Alamona is more closely allied to 

 Epectinaspis than to Strigoderma but is not identical. 



Epectinaspis Blanch. 



I am not quite certain that all the species described below belong 

 truly to the genus Epectinaspis, for the statement by Bates that the 

 clypeus in that genus is long and quadrate, will not apply to them. 

 The clypeus in these species is of the normal transversality and 

 differs from that characterizing other generic types, in being 

 arcuately inflated at the sides and more or less constricted at 

 base. The abnormal second group of Strigoderma, in the arrange- 

 ment of Mr. Bates, seems to include nothing similar in the form of 

 the clypeus nor in the general habitus of the body, as shown by the 

 figures on the plate. The species in my collection, all of which have 

 the middle coxae approximate and the mesosternum narrow and 

 non-tuberculate, are as follows: 



Pronotum finely, extremely densely sculptured and opaque 2 



Pronotum shining and discretely punctate 3 



