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species is said to have accessory setae and is from a more moun- 

 tainous part of the country. The species may be known as follows: 



Body of comparatively large size and broad heavy build, only descending 

 to the neighborhood of 10 mm. in rufimanus 2 



Body small in size and always of more slender outline, very rarely measur- 

 ing so much as 10 mm. in length 5 



2 Elytra polished in the female, the micro-reticulation very minute and 

 feeble though not obsolete. Body oblong, subparallel, only very 

 moderately convex, shining, deep black above and beneath, the 

 legs black, the anterior and middle tarsi rufo-piceous; head three- 

 fifths as wide as the prothorax, the eyes not very prominent, the 

 foveae small as usual, the antennae fusco-testaceous, with the basal 

 joint pale though clouded on its anterior or inner face; prothorax 

 short and unusually transverse, not quite twice as wide as long, 

 parallel, rounding and converging at the sides anteriorly, the apex 

 moderately sinuate, narrower than the transverse base, the margin 

 finer but not interrupted medially, the angles but little more than 

 right and only very narrowly blunt; surface steeply declivous at the 

 sides to the coarse marginal gutter, which rapidly broadens poster- 

 iorly, turning strongly inward and becoming obsolete near basal 

 third, the foveae narrow, linear, having a few sparse punctures, the 

 surface thence to the sides almost flat and impunctate; elytra un- 

 usually long, two-thirds longer than wide, between three and four 

 times as long as the prothorax and barely at all wider, the parallel 

 sides very feebly arcuate; apex acutely ogival, the very oblique 

 sinus extremely feeble though evident; striae fine but well impressed, 

 the scutellar oblique and moderately long, the intervals broadly 

 convex, the third with a puncture before apical third that is discal, 

 not touching the second stria; marginal line of fovese uninterrupted 

 as usual; abdomen with the basal punctuation very fine, sparse and 

 almost obsolete; legs slender, the hind tarsi (9) three-fourths as 

 long as the tibiae, with the first joint much longer than the fifth and 

 alone having on its dorsal surface a few rather coarse scattered 

 setigerous punctures. Length (9) 13.0 mm.; width 5.2 mm. 

 Louisiana (Morgan City), Wickham patronus n. sp. 



Elytra dull in the female but not or scarcely sericeous, the striae not so 

 fine and the intervals less flat 3 



Elytra densely dull and sericeous in the female, with the striae very fine, 

 much finer and less impressed than in the male, the intervals per- 

 fectly flat as a rule 4 



3 Form elongate-oval, strongly and unusually convex, deep black, 

 rather shining, the elytra not very dull even in the female; under 

 surface and legs also black or nearly so; head large, three-fourths 

 as wide as the prothorax, the eyes well developed and prominent, 

 the antennae infuscate except at base; prothorax rather more than 

 one-half wider than long, nearly as in the preceding in general char- 

 acters but more convex, with very much finer marginal gutter, which 

 broadens less and fades out more rapidly on the broadly and feebly 

 convex impunctate latero-basal region, the apex distinctly sinuate 



