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as the third, the latter extremely minutely spinulate at apex; prothorax 

 slightly elongate, narrowed and feebly constricted at base, narrower 

 than in gazellulus, very even in convexity and with a fine even strong 

 reticulation of fine raised lines; elytra as in gazellulus, except that 

 there is a more distinctly marked loosely pubescent band at a greater 

 distance from the apex. Length (cf ) 5.6mm.; width 1.35 mm. Maine 

 (Monmouth), C. A. Frost. 



Of gazellulus I have two forms, one smaller, from Illinois, and 

 the other even larger than insinuans, taken by Schmitt in Penn- 

 sylvania; there seems to be very little sexual difference, except in 

 the less basally narrowed prothorax of the assumed male and the 

 slightly longer antennae. 



Agallissus Dalm. 



The following species is evidently allied to the Honduran quadri- 

 maculatus White : 



Agallissus floridanus n. sp. Rather stout, shining throughout and 

 deep black, without trace of metallic lustre, the under surface, legs and 

 antenna? black; elytra each with a transverse red spot at two-fifths and 

 another just before apical fourth, both extending from the lateral margin 

 to within inner third; head coarsely, closely punctate, longitudinally 

 canaliculate between the antennae, the latter (9 ) stout, a little less than 

 half as long as the body; prothorax nearly as long as wide, much wider 

 than the head, parallel, the sides broadly arcuate, the apex very briefly, 

 the base much more extendedly, tubulate; surface convex, rather flattened 

 medially, very coarsely, closely, somewhat unevenly and subconfluently 

 punctate throughout, the interspaces polished; scutellum tumid, sunken, 

 wider than long; elytra much wider than the prothorax and more than 

 three times as long, parallel and nearly straight at the sides, becoming 

 somewhat laterally prominent at the tumid humeri, broadly rounding 

 posteriorly to the narrowly and transversely arcuate apices, the surface 

 flattened suturally, becoming declivous toward the scutellum, polished, 

 very coarsely, closely and perforately but not contiguously cribrate 

 throughout, each with two subprominent smooth discal lines attaining 

 apical fourth, the punctures on the gradual apical slope less coarse; 

 abdomen polished, with fine and sparse punctures; legs short; met- 

 episterna wide, obliquely narrowed posteriorly, the elytral sinus near 

 the base deep. Length 14.8 mm. ; width 4.4 mm. Florida (Palm Beach). 



Differs from quadrimaculatus in having the short erect hairs 

 everywhere fuscous, very sparse and scarcely obvious, unless looked 

 for, and not denser near the bases of the abdominal segments, also 

 in the total absense of metallic reflection on the prothorax or elytra. 



The genus Agallissus can readily be conceived to be nothing more 

 than an aberrant Clytid. 



