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canda, each scale almost filling a coarse shallow puncture; scutellum 

 throughout not very densely squamose, more densely and less coarsely 

 medially; elytra nearly two-fifths longer than wide, slightly inflated 

 posteriorly and there a fourth wider than the prothorax, the scales 

 of the sparsely aggregated series much smaller and narrower than 

 those of the anterior parts, the dense sutural line very narrow, 

 three scales in width; pygidium but little wider than long, the lower 

 angle broadly and obtusely rounded, convex, sparsely clothed with 

 small scales; abdomen as in the preceding; hind tarsi smaller and 

 shorter, the intermediate not as long as the tibiae as they are in the 

 two preceding, but evidently shorter. Length 20.5 mm.; width 

 9.3 mm. New Mexico verecunda n. sp. 



5 Last palpal joint slender, with an elongate external strongly flattened 

 or feebly impressed, minutely, closely asperulate area, from basal 

 fourth to apical third, surrounded by notably coarse setigerous 

 punctures. Body stout, subcylindric, shining, dark castaneous in 

 color; vertex strongly punctate, with rather narrow and close-set 

 scales near the eyes and with long close erect brown hairs throughout, 

 the clypeus parallel, slightly narrowed at base, with rather acute and 

 slightly everted angles and truncate to broadly sinuate apex; surface 

 concave, with small feeble and very sparse punctures, denser later- 

 ally and apically, all bearing squamiform hairs, smaller and finer 

 apically; antennal club only moderate, twice as long as the stem and 

 two-fifths longer than the head; prothorax notably short and trans- 

 verse, a little more than twice as wide as the median length, obtusely 

 angulate near the middle of the sides; surface generally paler laterally, 

 with moderately coarse, shallow and very sparse punctures, each 

 with a slender scale, the vestiture dense in the depressed median 

 line and sublaterally toward base; erect hairs only visible anteriorly 

 and along the finely serrulate lateral edges; scutellum with small 

 scales throughout except apically, denser medially; elytra with 

 rather uneven surface, two-fifths to nearly one-half longer than wide, 

 only just visibly wider than the prothorax, the scales of the sparsely 

 aggregated series very slender, five times as long as wide, dense along 

 the suture; sutural spine very minute; pygidium slightly wider than 

 long, only feebly convex, clothed sparsely with depressed stout 

 hairs, intermixed with a few broader scales; abdomen as usual; 

 hind tarsi much, the intermediate evidently, shorter than the 

 tibiae; ungual teeth acute and feebly reflexed at tip. Length 24.5- 

 25.5 mm.; width 10.7-12.5 mm. Kansas (Douglas Co.) and Illinois 

 (Havana, Hood). Seven examples, the female not at hand. 



hammondi Lee. 



Last palpal joint slender, finely and closely punctured and setose apically, 

 having, on the outer side, a long feeble asperulate impression from 

 near the base to apical third, the surrounding punctures much smaller 

 than in hammondi. Body smaller in size and pale bright red-brown 

 in color, rather shining, subcylindric, the vestiture white; vertex 

 coarsely, densely punctate and with large white scales, denser 

 toward the eyes, also with some erect brownish hairs; clypeus con- 

 cave, the sides nearly straight and very feebly diverging from base 



