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visible with difficulty, the discal setigerous puncture coarse, deep, 

 behind apical third near the middle of the third interspace; hind tarsi 

 rather short, with obsolete dorsal vestiture but of the usual structure 

 in the group. Length (cf ) 12.6 mm.; width 4.6 mm. Rhode Island 

 (Boston Neck) abscrusus n. sp. 



Body less elongate, rather more convex, shining, the elytra (cf ) not at all 

 alutaceous; color castaneous, rufous beneath, legs obscure rufous, 

 with blackish tibiae and hind tarsi; antennae obscure testaceous, with 

 paler basal joint; head moderate, with prominent eyes and very small 

 foveae, the antennae (cf) extending slightly behind the thoracic 

 base; prothorax nearly one-half wider than the median length, the 

 sides subparallel and strongly rounded, the apex unusually deeply 

 sinuate and distinctly narrower than the base, which is transverse 

 and finely but distinctly margined throughout, the angles obtuse and 

 unusually broadly rounded; surface nearly as in the preceding, except 

 that the foveae are deeper, the numerous fine close punctures on the 

 flattened latero-basal parts nearly similar; elytra shorter, one-half 

 longer than wide, parallel, with broadly arcuate sides, the sinus 

 vestigial, virtually obsolete and scarcely traceable; striae rather fine 

 but deeply impressed, especially suturad, the scutellar stria deep and 

 free but only moderately long; surface wholly devoid of punctuation, 

 the lateral line of foveae uninterrupted, the discal puncture at three- 

 fifths, adjoining the second stria externally, very large and deeply 

 impressed; hind tarsi rather short, glabrous above but of the usual 

 structure, the first three joints decreasing rapidly in length, the first 

 longer than the fifth. Length (cf) n.8 mm.; width 4.4 mm. 

 Arizona (at base of Humphrey's Peak 9500 ft), Snow. 



pimalicus n. sp. 



Body broad and much more abbreviated, more narrowed anteriorly, deep 

 black above, black beneath, the coxae, trochanters and median part 

 of the prosternum paler, the legs deep black, the tarsi more or less 

 rufo-piceous; abdomen feebly rufescent; antennae piceous, the basal 

 joint paler; lustre shining, the elytra (9 ) sericeously opaque; head 

 two-thirds as wide as the prothorax, the eyes somewhat smaller 

 than usual; antennae rather short, compressed as usual, the tenth 

 joint on the flat side one-half longer than wide; foveae minute; 

 prothorax transverse, nearly three-fifths wider than long, widest a 

 little before the middle, the rounded sides slightly converging and 

 just visibly arcuate basally; base evidently wider than the apex, the 

 marginal bead slightly interrupted at the middle, the angles obtuse 

 and narrowly rounded; apex moderately sinuate, the angles very 

 broadly rounded; surface nearly as in abstrustis, the dense punctures 

 of the large latero-basal region fine and involving the feeble and 

 vague foveae, which however are rather deeply impressed longitudin- 

 ally at the bottom; elytra short, barely two-fifths longer than wide, 

 more than a fourth wider than the prothorax, the parallel sides 

 distinctly arcuate, the sinus obsolete and barely traceable; striae 

 rather fine and not so deep as in any of the preceding species, the 

 scutellar rather long and oblique; intervals flat, devoid of punctua- 

 tion, the lateral foveae as usual, the discal puncture large, impressed, 



