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its posterior exposed limit medially somewht prolonged but broadly 

 and very obtusely so, disappearing under the truncate apex of the 

 ligula; at the sides, the labrum becomes very thin and lamellate. 

 The antennae have the usual structure; the middle coxae are so 

 approximate as to be virtually contiguous and the anterior claw- 

 joint is without trace of inferior tooth, being bent at the middle. 

 Other peculiarities will become apparent from the following descrip- 

 tion of the only known species: 



Body oblong, convex, moderately shining, blackish beneath, the upper 

 surface rufo-piceous and the legs testaceous; elytra luteo-flavate, 

 infumate broadly toward the sides and with the three narrow smooth 

 costules on each brighter flavate; head with rather small but strong 

 and well separated punctures throughout, the clypeus deeply concave 

 and almost semi-elliptical; eyes small, not prominent; antennae 

 blackish, the club (d 1 ) distinctly shorter than the stem; clypeal 

 suture barely traceable; prothorax three-fourths wider than long, 

 the sides very evenly arcuate and but slightly converging throughout; 

 apex rather deeply sinuate, with the bead entire, broad and flat, the 

 angles acute and prominent, the basal slightly obtuse but not 

 rounded; base barely at all lobed, the bead fine, somewhat inter- 

 rupted at the middle; surface even, convex, finely, subevenly and 

 sparsely punctate throughout; scutellum finely, sparsely and evenly 

 punctate; elytra barely visibly longer than wide and very indistinctly 

 wider than the prothorax, parallel, with feebly arcuate sides, cir- 

 cularly rounded in almost posterior half; surface with three sets of 

 very approximate and rather deep, closely punctate geminate striae, 

 the inclosed costules relatively narrow and sharply defined also by 

 their paler tint; surface between the exterior of the three and the 

 sides with about three approximate and closely punctate impressed 

 series; second interval coarsely, irregularly, uniseriately punctate, 

 the fourth scarcely punctate, the sixth with few fine punctures; 

 pygidium shining, with rather coarse and anastomosing, moderately 

 strong sculpture; anterior tibiae not dentate externally, the apical 

 process gradually pointed, scarcely at all everted. Male with the 

 larger anterior claw small, rather stout, abruptly bent basally and 

 somewhat contorted, very unequally bifid, the upper ramus very 

 short and feebly developed though not very slender, the larger 

 middle claw much longer, more slender, moderately cleft at tip; 

 tarsi all notably long and not very slender, the hind tibiae not stout, 

 slightly constricted apically. Length (cf) 3.9 mm.; width 2.1 mm. 

 Florida (Sumter Co.) [Strigoderma exigua Schz.] . . . .exigua Schz. 



The description is drawn from a specimen kindly lent me by Mr. 

 Schwarz, being one of the three cotypes remaining of the original 

 set. The species has probably never since been taken. 



