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wider than long, almost similar in outline, except that the sides basally 

 are less oblique and distinctly arcuate and that the basal angles are 

 wholly obliterated, being very broadly rounded; the marginal bead 

 of the base is much finer; otherwise it is nearly similar; elytra nar- 

 rower, t ully one-half longer than wide, nearly as in cordicollis but 

 more evenly parabolically rounded at apex, with the humeri less 

 broadly exposed basally and the striae a little coarser and more 

 impressed, with feebly convex intervals, especially suturally, the 

 scutellar stria sometimes completely obsolete; abdomen similar; 

 basal joint of the hind tarsi (cf 1 ) rather distinctly longer than the 

 next two combined, the tarsus similarly much shorter than the tibia. 

 Length (cf 9 ) 7.0-7.3 mm.; width 2.65 mm. Texas (El Paso), 

 Dunn parilis n. sp. 



This genus seems to be confined to the Sonoran fauna and the 

 species are probably rather local in distribution. 



Gynandropus Dej. 



The Anisodactylides of Lacordaire, to which group Gynandropus 

 is referred by that author, are, as shown by knowledge of the 

 present day, the receptacle of many discordant elements, of which 

 the present genus is one of the most obscure in its relationships. 

 It is true that the tarsal vestiture of the male is rather solid, but 

 careful observation proves it to be seriately squamiform and not 

 uniformly spongiose, and the fact that the female tarsi are also 

 partially clothed beneath, together with the peculiar habitus of the 

 body, shows that it cannot be closely associated with any other 

 known genus. The large basal joint of the female anterior tarsi 

 betrays at least some affinity with Stenomorplms and the general 

 habitus of the body and presence of three series of setigerous elytral 

 punctures indicates a relationship with Selenophorus and Discoderus. 



In the male of Gynandropus both the anterior and middle tarsi 

 are stout and densely clothed beneath, evenly throughout the 

 length of the first four joints, with white squamiform vestiture in 

 two absolutely contiguous series, so that the soles are uniformly 

 clothed throughout, the texture of the squamae transverse in 

 structure. The basal joint is only moderately enlarged, the first 

 four joints decreasing almost uniformly in size and nearly similar 

 in form, the intermediate but little less stout than the anterior and 

 otherwise similar. In the female the basal joint of the anterior 

 tarsi is relatively very large, oblong-oval, much longer than the 



