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but shining; obsolete anterior impression with a few punctures; 

 elytra three-fifths longer than wide, two and two-fifths times as 

 long as the prothorax and nearly one-half wider, obtuse at apex, 

 with very feeble sinus; sides subparallel and feebly arcuate, the disk 

 rather wider near the apex than at base; striae not or scarcely sub- 

 punctate, moderately impressed, the intervals rather feebly convex; 

 dorsal puncture behind two-thirds; hind tarsi nearly as in the pre- 

 ceding. Length (d 71 9 ) 4.0-4.2 mm.; width 1.2-1.25 mm. District 

 of Columbia, Ulke. Four examples. [Bradycellus linearis Lee.]. 



linearis Lee. 



Body somewhat less slender, shining, piceous-black, the pronotum at apex 

 and base and the elytral suture pallescent; under surface nearly 

 black, the epipleura and legs testaceous; head nearly as in the pre- 

 ceding but with dark piceous antennae, the two basal joints testaceous; 

 prothorax but just visibly longer than wide, widest at two-fifths 

 from the apex, the sides more strongly rounded than in linearis and 

 more deeply sinuate posteriorly, the hind angles right and sharp; 

 base rectilinear and as wide as the truncate apex; surface as in 

 linearis, the very deep basal foveae more obliquely prolonged to the 

 basal margin; elytra two-thirds longer than wide, two and one-half 

 times as long as the prothorax and two-fifths wider, nearly as in 

 linearis throughout, except that the striae are subpunctate, the 

 intervals rather more convex and the sinus stronger and more oblique ; 

 the discal puncture is less posterior and at about three-fifths from 

 the base; hind tarsi nearly as in the other species. Length (cf) 

 4.3 mm.; width 1.3 mm. Virginia (Fort Monroe). A single speci- 

 men fuscicornis n. sp. 



In all the species the side-pieces of the prosternum are strongly 

 though not very densely punctured throughout the width anteriorly 

 but not basally. Fuscicornis resembles linearis but is somewhat 

 larger, with less elongate and laterally more sigmoid prothorax 

 and darker coloration and differs especially in the coloration of the 

 antennae; the type is assumed to be a male, although the only trace 

 of inferior squamulation visible on the anterior tarsi consists of 

 about two long slender and coarsely hair-like squamae on the fourth 

 joint. The sexual modifications of the tarsi are rather more feeble 

 in this genus than in any other of the Eradycellid genera known to 

 me at present. 



Philodes Lee. 



The edentate mentum characterizing this and all the subsequent 

 genera of the Acupalpini, here pertains very appropriately to a genus 

 resembling Amerinus in outward appearance, being slender, even 

 more depressed and with basally sinuate sides and sharp right 



