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confusedly and closely punctate and rugulose; sterna rather finely, 

 closely punctate, the hind coxae much more coarsely and sparsely, 

 both with rather abundant coarse yellowish hair. Male with the 

 upper ramus of the larger claw of the anterior tarsi extremely small 

 and fine, situated but little beyond the middle of the claw, the an- 

 terior tarsi shorter than in the two preceding species, the fifth joint 

 rather shorter than the three preceding combined, dentate beneath. 

 Length (cf 9 ) 6.7-8.8 mm.; width 3.8-4.9 mm. Louisiana (Vowell 1 - 

 Mill the type locality), Kansas, Indiana and Florida. [A. pubess 

 cens Blatchley] ludoviciana Schf. 



9 Form elongate-oval, strongly convex and shining, not inflated pos- 

 teriorly, black above and beneath, the head, pronotum, scutellum 

 and sutural interval of the elytra with strong, the under surface 

 with feeble, greenish-metallic lustre; elytra uniform pale brown, with 

 feeble greenish lustre at the extreme base, the sutural interval and 

 side margins basally blackish-metallic; head evenly convex, rather 

 finely, densely and very closely punctured throughout, feebly 

 rugulose, the eyes moderate; clypeus broad and short, two and one- 

 half times as wide as long, broadly arcuate at apex, with rounded 

 angles, the sides becoming parallel at base, the edges well reflexed, 

 except at the sides basally; antennal club (9) much shorter than 

 the stem; prothorax fully three-fourths wider than long, widest at 

 base, the sides thence feebly converging and straight to the middle, 

 there rounded, then more converging and straight to the moderately 

 prominent thoughfbluntly rounded apical angles, the basal slightly 

 obtuse and rounded; base strongly and gradually lobed medially, 

 the bead subobsolete at the middle; punctures even, rather widely 

 separated, small but strong, a little closer and stronger laterally, 

 the sublateral fovea coarse and very deep in the type; scutellum 

 finely, sparsely punctate; elytra a fourth longer than wide, obtusely- 

 rounded at apex, the surface with rather even, close-set, unimpressed 

 series of relatively small punctures, becoming a little larger but 

 not confused laterally, the second interval very wide, confusedly 

 and rather sparsely punctate throughout; middle coxae slightly 

 separated, the upper limit of the mesosternal process polished; hind 

 legs very stout, the tibiae strongly surate, very thick and shorter 

 than the femora, the tarsi stout: anterior and middle tarsi with the 

 larger claw subsymmetrically split at apex; anterior tibiae with a 

 single external tooth and apical process. Length (9) 15.0 mm.: 

 width 8.4 mm. Honduras (San Pedro Sula) . . . . *crassisura n. sp. 



Form nearly similar but with the elytra slightly inflated at the middle; 

 coloration nearly similar, the lustre more coppery, the legs with 

 viridi-cupreous lustre; elytra paler, brownish-flavate; head and 

 prothorax almost similar throughout in form and sculpture, except 

 that the clypeus is much less transverse, being only a little more than 

 twice as wide as long, the eyes sensibly larger and the basal thoracic 

 bead distinctly defined throughout; scutellum rather shorter, finely, 

 sparsely punctate, cuprascent ; elytra scarcely a fifth longer than wide, 

 as in crassisura and with similar dark suture and external edges 

 T. L. Casey, Mem. Col. VI, Oct. 1915. 



