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apex is not visible from a vertical viewpoint, the punctures rather 

 sparse but impressed and very distinct; under surface shining, finely, 

 sparsely punctate and with fine sparse hairs. Length 3.2-3.5 mm.; 

 width 2.2-2.3 mm. California (Arrata, Humboldt Co.). 



puncticeps n. so. 



Oval, subglobose, shining, cupreo-seneous above; head sparsely punctate, 

 the front unequal, with a median lineolate impression; prothorax 

 extremely smooth, sparsely pilose toward the sides, narrowed and 

 compressed anteriorly, the anterior angles lobate, produced; elytra 

 very sparsely punctulate, declivous posteriorly, the apex rounded; 

 antennae, legs and under surface of the body piceo-testaceous; 

 anterior tibige unarmed. Length 3.5-4.0 mm.; width 2.7-3.0 mm. 

 Alaska (Sitka). [Amphicyrta simplicipes Mann., Bull. Mosc., 

 1852, p. 342] simplicipes Mann. 



Rounded-ovate, much inflated, very convex, blackish-seneous, shining, 

 clothed with slender erect pale hairs; head and prothorax finely 

 punctured, the former the more strongly; prothorax more than twice 

 as wide as long, strongly narrowed in front and much rounded at 

 the sides, the apex broadly rounded, the base truncate, the apical 

 angles sharp from above owing to the compression of the sides, the 

 basal angles nearly right; elytra feebly and finely punctured, not at 

 all striate, a little wider than the prothorax and but little longer than 

 wide, much deflexed behind and conjointly rounded at apex; under 

 surface piceo-testaceous, the legs and basal parts of the antennce still 

 paler, the last five joints of the latter obscure. Length 4.5 mm. 

 California. [Simplocaria inflata Lee., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., 1868, 

 p. 62] inflatum Lee. 



Both specular e and puncticeps are materially smaller than either 

 simplicipes or inflatum, and specular e is further distinguished from 

 any other by its pallid coloration and infinitesimal hairs of the 

 upper surface, which could readily be overlooked. Puncticeps 

 differs from inflatum in its smaller size, apparently shorter elytra 

 and less transverse prothorax, stronger, closer sculpture and rather 

 shorter vestiture, though this is pale, distinct and hispid. There 

 can be no doubt, I think, that Amphicyrta simplicipes and Simplo- 

 caria inflata, which are certainly not specifically identical, belong 

 to this genus, and under this assumption the failure to notice the 

 extraordinary epipleura, the most conspicuous feature of the under 

 surface, by both Mannerheim and LeConte, is most unaccountable. 



