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black, with greenish lustre, the impressed densely punctate areas of 

 the elytra coppery, the under surface and legs cupreous; head nearly 

 as wide as the thoracic apex, the eyes convex, widely separated, the 

 front evenly and feebly convex, densely punctate, with a central 

 and two sublateral irregular embossed smooth spots; prothorax 

 one-half wider than long, the base wider than the apex, the sides 

 nearly straight; surface very broadly impressed and closely punctate 

 along the middle, the impression with a short narrow subimpunctate 

 area at the bottom; elytra evidently wider than the prothorax, the 

 sides rapidly converging and barely arcuate in more than apical 

 two-fifths, the apices narrowly sinuate and bidenticulate, the close- 

 set striae rather irregular but well denned, not wholly interrupted 

 by the numerous depressed and densely punctate areas, the intervals 

 rather strongly and closely, subserially punctate; prosternum rather 

 broad, flat, closely punctate; abdomen finely, sparsely punctate 

 medially. Length 12.7 mm.; width 4.0 mm. North Carolina 

 (Southern Pines), Manee abbreviata n. sp. 



Lateral impressed grooves of the pronotum entire, extending, densely 

 punctate, from base to apex, though gradually becoming shallower .3 



3 Eyes strongly convex and prominent, the very densely punctato- 

 rugose front between them with a very irregular central broad 

 chevron of three large embossed smooth areas; general characters 

 somewhat as in the preceding, except that the median impressed 

 and densely punctured line of the pronotum is narrow and even 

 throughout, the depressed and densely punctate, brightly cupreous 

 areas of the elytra much more numerous and more elongate, giving a 

 more irregularly undulated surface and that the striae are very much 

 feebler, the subserial punctures of the intervals smaller; the sides of 

 the elytra posteriorly are not subrectilinearly converging as in the 

 preceding, but arcuately converge through a rather shorter extent, 

 the apices more narrowly, feebly sinuate and minutely bidenticulate; 

 along the sides of the elytra the densely punctate elongate depressed 

 cupreous areas form almost a continuous depression; sterna similar, 

 the median parts of the abdomen rather less sparsely, finely punctate. 

 Length 11.4 mm.; width 3.75 mm. Illinois ocularis n. sp. 



Eyes feebly convex and not prominent, the frontal surface densely and 

 subrugosely but rather less coarsely punctured and simply with a 

 small, narrow and inconspicuous median embossed smooth area 

 along the median line; prothorax nearly as in ocularis; elytra nar- 

 rower, more gradually less arcuately narrowed behind through a 

 longer distance more than apical two-fifths, the apices nearly 

 similar but the depressed areas are less definite, more confused, less 

 cupreous and more coarsely and less densely punctate, the stria? 

 close-set and rather deep suturally, scarcely traceable laterally; 

 abdomen sparsely but more strongly punctate medially, densely 

 as usual laterally. Length 10.5 mm.; width 3.2 mm. Texas. 



macilenta Csy. 



4 Body more slender than in any of the preceding, the head with feebly 

 convex eyes as in macilenta but with the front more brightly cupreous 

 and with the dense punctures finer, having centrally a feebly and very 



