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generally but feebly convex, the frontal foveae long, outwardly 

 curved and extending to the eyes and the third antennal joint is 

 pubescent like the fourth, except near its base. The anterior tarsi 

 of the male are moderately thickened but scarcely dilated and have 

 beneath two rows of long slender squamiform papillae, one in each 

 series on each joint; the middle tarsi are slender and apparently 

 unmodified. The scutellar stria is wanting, though the fovea is 

 large and conspicuous. There are four setae at the apex of the 

 abdomen in both sexes. 



Of this singular genus we seem to have three species as follows: 



Elytra very long, nearly three times as long as the prothorax. Color 

 piceous-black throughout, the legs pale testaceous; surface very 

 shining; head rather small, elongate, three-fifths as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, the eyes more convex than in the other species; antennae 

 long, very slender, pale testaceous throughout, fully half as long as 

 the body; prothorax not quite as long as wide, widest at anterior 

 two-fifths, where the sides are somewhat prominently rounded, 

 thence broadly, feebly sinuate and feebly converging to the basal 

 angles, which are right and very sharply defined; base rectilinear 

 throughout and very slightly wider than the sinuato-truncate apex; 

 surface very feebly convex, finely reflexed and diaphanous at the 

 sides, the stria deep and strong, entire, the foveae isolated, linear, 

 extending for two-fifths but not quite attaining the basal margin, 

 extremely deep and cavernous, the bottom slightly rugose; near the 

 apex medially there are a few fine punctures; elytra three-fourths 

 longer than wide, parallel, with feebly arcuate sides and abruptly 

 very obtuse apex, two-fifths wider than the prothorax, the sinus 

 broad and feeble but evident; striae deep, subpunctate, the intervals 

 convex; discal puncture small, near two-thirds; lateral line of foveae 

 very widely interrupted; hind tarsi slender, three-fourths as long as 

 the tibiae, the first joint subequal to the next two combined, much 

 shorter than the fifth. Length (9) 4.5 mm.; width 1.3 mm. 



Mississippi (Vicksburg) longipennis n. sp. 



Elytra less, the prothorax more, elongate; eyes less convex 2 



2 Body slender, feebly convex, shining, rufo-piceous in color, paler 

 beneath, the legs flavo-testaceous; head two-thirds as wide as the 

 prothorax, smooth as usual; neck rather long, parallel; antennae 

 pale testaceous throughout, slender, nearly three-fifths as long as 

 the body; prothorax distinctly longer than wide, this a little less 

 marked (cf 1 ), the sides very broadly rounded, gradually slightly 

 converging and broadly, feebly sinuate basally, the angles right and 

 sharply defined; base feebly sinuato-truncate, distinctly narrower 

 than the apex, which is distinctly sinuato-truncate; surface with very 

 deep coarse and sulciform entire median groove, the foveae very deep, 

 abrupt, elongate-linear, a third the total length and attaining the 

 basal margin, though more shallowly, the bottom rugosely punctate 



