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at least at the sides, feebly sinuate and more obtuse medially. 

 The outer face of the basal antennal joint is deeply concave, 

 smooth and polished. The legs are almost of the usual type in 

 Cremastocheilus , except that the anterior tibiae are slightly bent, 

 the two teeth small and unusually remote. The tarsi are very 

 short and compact, with the cross-section of the joints triangular. 

 The type is individually rather rare in collections and may be 

 described as follows: 



Body stout, rather convex, deep black, highly polished and feebly, 

 remotely sculptured throughout, the elytra sometimes with small 

 cretaceous areas at the sides; head two-thirds as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, feebly, evenly convex, finely, not densely punctate, the 

 surface evenly and feebly sloping from the base to the reflexed apex 

 of the clypeus, without break at the anterior part of the front, the 

 clypeus slightly sloping laterally and with the edges there feebly 

 reflexed, abruptly and rather deeply constricted above the antennae; 

 prothorax transversely oval, two-fifths wider than long, two-thirds 

 as wide as the elytra, widest at the middle, the sides subevenly and 

 strongly rounded and continuously arcuate around the obliterated 

 basal angles to outer third, where the groove just within the edge, 

 continually wider internally, terminates abruptly; outer marginal 

 bead rather fine but strong; feeble apical sinus as wide as the base 

 and arcuately prominent at the middle; punctures sparse, moderate 

 medially, gradually less sparse and larger laterally; scutellum of the 

 usual basally broad, apically finely attenuate, form, with rather 

 strong scattered punctures basally and thence posteriorly, near the 

 sides, with fine feeble subconfluent punctulation; elytra a third 

 longer than wide, the humeri laterally rather prominent, the sinus 

 deep, the external apical angles broadly rounded, the sutural obtuse 

 and rounded; surface with small narrow sparse angulate annuli, 

 -wanting on the broad costae and, on the flanks, becoming fine sparse 

 punctures, faintly subrugose near the lower edges; pygidium strongly 

 convex, with moderate close-set circular annuli, becoming very fine 

 sparse punctures apically and transverse wavy lines basally; legs 

 very sparsely, feebly sculptured, the femora and sterna with short 

 or longer, very fine oblique scratches. Length 12.8 mm.; width 6.0 

 mm. North Carolina (Southern Pines), Manee; also found in 

 Maryland. [Crem. polita Schaum] leucosticta Burm. 



The small tomentose spots, because of which the name was given 

 by Burmeister, seem to be very variable, since, on the Southern 

 Pines examples, above described, there is no trace of any such spot, 

 even the most minute, on any part of the surface, the integuments 

 being smooth and extremely polished. It is of course possible that 

 there may be more than one species and that the above is not really 



