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combined; the middle tarsi are slender and completely unmodified. 

 The surface of the body is much less depressed than in Philodes and 

 even somewhat more convex, as a rule, than in Anthracus. 



Of the three described species I have only one, rectangulus Chd., 

 but have tried to interpolate the others in the following table by 

 means of the published descriptions; the generic characters out- 

 lined above are from lucens, described below and to be regarded 

 as the type of the genus: 



Elytral series composed of three punctures 2 



Elytral series composed of four or five punctures 3 



2 Form elongate, rather depressed; head blackish; prothorax pale, with 

 a large quadrate dusky spot; anterior transverse impression deeply 

 marked; foveae broad, rugosely punctured; elytra pale, with a broad 

 dorsal vitta divided by the suture and abbreviated at each end. 

 Length "4 mm." Georgia. One specimen. [Stenolophus flavilimbus 



Lee.] flavilimbus Lee. 



Form elongate-oblong, less depressed, the size smaller, the basal thoracic 

 impressions deeper, feebly punctured, the sides less sinuate posteriorly 

 than in rectangulus and the hind angles less prominent; color tes- 

 taceous or rufo-piceous; legs, palpi and antennae pale; prothorax 

 broader than the head, nearly as long as wide, almost quadrate, 

 slightly narrowed behind, the sides broadly rounded anteriorly; stria 

 fine but distinct, the transverse impressions rather distinct; foveae 

 oblong, almost rounded, deep, somewhat rugosely punctulate at the 

 bottom; hind angles nearly right but with their apices evidently 

 blunt; base transverse, oblique at each side; elytra elongate, almost 

 parallel, slightly convex, feebly sinuate; striae distinct, the scutellar 

 very evident; intervals almost flat. Length 3.3 mm.; width 1.3 mm. 

 Sent by the elder LeConte and probably taken in Georgia. [Acu- 



palpus longulus Dej.] longulus Dej. 



3 Body oblong, rather stout and convex, very shining, testaceous, the 

 head, a very nubilous spot on each side of the median line of the 

 pronotum and a very feeble nubilous cloud on each elytron toward 

 the suture and largely behind the middle, piceous; under surface 

 testaceous throughout, the hind body rather darker and more rufous; 

 head nearly three-fourths as wide as the prothorax, the eyes moder- 

 ately large, very prominent; antennae rather slender, dusky, paler 

 basally; prothorax just visibly wider than long, subquadrate, widest 

 near apical third, the sides broadly, subevenly arcuate, becoming 

 feebly sinuate toward base, the latter feebly arcuato-truncate, 

 slightly wider than the feebly sinuate apex; basal angles very nearly 

 right, sharply defined, not at all blunt, the apices not at all everted, 

 the apical angles obtuse and blunt; surface moderately convex, 

 wichout distinct trace of transverse impressions, the median line 

 coarse, every deep and entire; foveae large, elongate, moderately deep 

 and strongly punctate, the punctures extending also over the flat 

 deplanate area between the foveae and the sides; side margins very 



