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head still smaller, much less than half as wide as the prothorax, the 

 front more flattened and densely and more finely punctulato- 

 rugulose; clypeus not so shining and with somewhat less strongly 

 reflexed margins; eyes small, moderately convex; prothorax fully 

 twice as wide as long, the sides more rounded, more strongly con- 

 verging in almost apical half, the base rather more narrowly and 

 strongly lobed, similarly beaded, the angles much more than right 

 and blunter; surface similar, the small lateral fovea more distinct, 

 deep; scutellum broader; elytra much shorter and of very different 

 outline, not longer than wide, evenly rounded behind from the middle, 

 the striae finer and more sharply defined but still less punctate, the 

 intervals all nearly flat, the punctures of the alternate ones almost 

 completely obsolete, the second with a fine irregular line of punctu- 

 lation along the middle, the punctures not broadly scattered as in 

 semilivida; pygidium wider and not so convex, evidently though 

 sparsely punctured; under surface and legs nearly similar, the 

 metasternum rather shorter. Length (cf ) 6.6 mm.; width 3.7 mm. 

 Florida (the locality unrecorded) flaccida n. sp. 



Species of this genus may possibly occur in Cuba, but there is 

 no evidence at hand. 



Anomalacra n. gen. 



This name is proposed for a very distinct modification of the 

 Anomala type, occurring in northern Mexico. The body is anteri- 

 orly attenuated to a marked degree, being, at the posterior part 

 of the elytra, nearly twice as wide as at the middle of the prothorax. 

 The clypeus is broadly and moderately reflexed apically but scarcely 

 at all at the sides, and at the middle of the apical margin there is a 

 small feeble sinus. The ligula is large, fully twice as wide as long, 

 with the apex broadly, angularly emarginate. The labrum is also 

 peculiar, being very thin along the exposed edge, with a feeble 

 slender transverse indentation at the middle, principally on the 

 obliquely inflexed surface. The middle coxae are narrowly sepa- 

 rated, the mesosternum not modified. The anterior tarsi are very 

 slender, with the basal joint much longer than the next two com- 

 bined in the unique and apparently female type, the claw-joint 

 feebly denticulate beneath and the claws long and slender, the 

 thicker with the upper lobe of the apex so much longer than the 

 lower that the latter, which is short, stout and obliquely pointed, is 

 really a tooth situated at outer third of the lower edge of the claw; 

 the tooth of the larger claw of the middle tarsi is very fine and still 

 nearer the tip. The hind tibise are slender, feebly surate and closely, 



