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prothorax convex, one-half wider than long, the sides arcuate, 

 strongly converging basally to the small smooth polished nodular 

 basal angles, which are thus much retracted, ''separated by an oblique 

 groove; apical angles smooth and noduliform, the cavities moderate, 

 not extending at all outward; median line feebly impressed; base 

 slightly sinuato-truncate medially; punctures moderate, deep, not 

 dense, rather sparser toward the sides; elytra widest at the rather 

 prominent humeri, a third wider than the prothorax, distinctly 

 elongate, the outer angles very broadly rounded; surface subeven, 

 though slightly rugulose, the areolse small, elongate and unusually 

 close-set, becoming rather coarse deep dense punctures on the 

 flanks; pygidium very convex, strongly and not densely punctate, 

 sparsely squamose; two teeth of the anterior tibiae well developed, 

 acute, the hind tarsi not distinctly compressed, rather slender, as long 

 as the tibiae. Length 8.3-8.5 mm.; width 4.0-4.2 mm. North Caro- 

 lina (Southern Pines). Florida LeConte. [ Crem. junior Westw.] 



squamulosus Lee. 



8 Form subparallel, rather depressed above, dull in lustre, shining at 

 the sides of the elytra and beneath, deep black, the erect hairs simple 

 and of very moderate length; head coarsely but not deeply, conflu- 

 ently punctate, the clypeus smooth, polished, strongly reflexed and 

 sinuato-truncate; prothorax moderately convex and nearly one-half 

 wider than long, without trace of impressed median line, coarsely, 

 closely areolate, the areolae shallow and opaque; basal angles very 

 strongly retracted, polished, noduliform and separated by an oblique 

 groove, the apical small, narrow, wholly isolated by a deep groove 

 extending from the cavities to the sides; scutellum with very large 

 shallow opaque areolae; elytra with larger but less prominent humeri 

 than in the preceding, subparallel, the outer angle broadly rounded, 

 the post-humeral sinus shallow; surface dull, with large elongate-oval 

 and very shallow, still more opaque areolae, denned by fine but rather 

 shining edges, the flanks with very coarse, deeper, subcontiguous 

 punctures; pygidium strongly convex and dull, with small arcuate 

 shining lines representing the outer sides of shallow areolae; two teeth 

 of the anterior tibiae rather large and blunt, the hind tarsi distinctly 

 compressed and much shorter than the tibiae. Length 8.7-9.0 mm.; 

 width 4.0 mm. North Carolina (Southern Pines), Manee. Middle 

 States Horn. [Crem. sayi Harris and cicatricosus and percheroni 

 Westw.] variolosus Kirby 



9 Posterior angles of the prothorax small, pointed, noduliform, greatly 

 retracted and separated by a deep oblique groove. Body moder- 

 ately slender, somewhat convex, very highly polished throughout, 

 deep black, the elytra sometimes partially rufescent; erect hairs very 

 short, sparse, sharply pointed; head evenly convex, deeply and 

 densely punctate, rapidly declivous anteriorly to the strongly reflexed 

 and broadly sinuate clypeus, which is finely, feebly and sparsely 

 punctulate; prothorax convex, declivo-impressed baeally, without an 

 impressed median line, the punctures moderate in size, sparse, 

 deeply impressed, with a large lateral space more or less impunctate; 

 apical angles noduliform, the cavities not extending outward; 



