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blackish-subcupreous, the pale pronotum with a black green-metallic 

 spot from more than middle half of the apex, gradually narrowing 

 to the middle of the base, the basal margin also finely blackish 

 throughout; scutellum pale, partially metallic-green, the elytra 

 without trace of darker coloration or metallic lustre; pygidium, 

 under surface and legs pale, the sterna blackish; head much less than 

 half as wide as the prothorax, rather deeply but not coarsely, 

 densely and evenly punctate; front broadly concave; clypeus strongly 

 arcuate at the sides, thence continuously but less strongly across the 

 apex, moderately constricted at base, the surface deeply concave, 

 very broadly and strongly reflexed in about apical half, the suture 

 very fine, barely traceable; eyes as in the preceding; antennae black- 

 ish, the club (cf) barely longer than the preceding five joints; 

 prothorax similar in outline and convexity to that of the preceding 

 species, the basal bead strong, entire; surface coarsely and more or 

 less closely but shallowly punctate, with sparsely intermingled fine 

 punctulation, the punctures very dense in a sublateral spot at basal 

 third, which is not so pronounced in nubicollis; median line not or 

 barely visibly impressed but becoming smooth and punctureless 

 basally; scattered hairs short and subdecumbent: scutellum finely 

 but deeply, loosely punctate, smooth peripherally and broadly at 

 base; elytra barely longer than wide, only a fifth or sixth wider than 

 the prothorax, perfectly parallel, with virtually straight sides, round- 

 ing at base, the apex abruptly very broadly rounded; striae only 

 moderately coarse, rather deep, almost regular throughout the width, 

 coarsely and closely punctate, nine or ten in number; intervals about 

 equally and distinctly convex; pygidium finely, feebly and closely 

 sculptured and with sparse, moderately long hairs. Male with the 

 first four joints of the anterior tarsi compact and together rather 

 shorter than the fifth, the larger claw stout, arcuate, sharply pointed, 

 with the upper ramus very small, short and slender; posterior legs 

 notably slender, more so than in any of the preceding female types, 

 the hind tibiae three times as long as wide, parallel, compressed; 

 mesosternum between the coxae very narrow and depressed. Length 

 (cf ) 7-7 mm.; width 3.9 mm. Mexico (Jalapa), Hoege. 



*gracilipes n. sp. 



It is possible that gracilipes may have been included in the 

 material representing mexicana by Mr. Bates, as the same locality 

 and^collector mentioned above are cited for a part of that material. 

 ln"mexicana, however, the legs in the male are particularly recorded, 

 in the description of Burmeister, as being very stout; in gracilipes 

 they are more slender than in almost any other type of the tribe 

 Anomalini to be recalled at present. As gracilipes seems to be 

 closely allied to mexicana in most respects, these facts are the more 

 remarkable and inexplicable. The type of gracilipes was received 



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



