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larger and feebler on the more shining parts, where the punctures are 

 also fine and sparse, fine and rather close but obscure on the pronotum 

 and elytra; color pale red-brown, the head and abdomen blackish- 

 piceous, the latter broadly rufescent basally and at apex, the elytra pale 

 brownish-flavate, feebly infuscate about the scutellum, the legs pale; 

 pubescence pale, short, rather abundant and distinct; head slightly 

 wider than long, nearly four-fifths as wide as the prothorax, parallel 

 and evenly arcuate at the sides, the eyes but slightly prominent, at more 

 than one-half more than their length from the base, the carinae fine, not 

 quite entire; prothorax scarcely a fourth wider than long, subparallel, 

 the sides feebly arcuate, just visibly widest before the middle, the basal 

 angles rounded, the median line feebly impressed almost throughout; 

 elytra slightly shorter than wide, the sides feebly diverging and straight, 

 at base a fourth wider, the suture two-fifths longer, than the prothorax; 

 abdomen much narrower than the elytra, parallel, the fifth tergite nearly 

 one-half longer than the fourth; middle coxae contiguous, the sunken 

 ridge between the short and very acute mesosternum and the transverse 

 and feebly, medially arcuate metasternum very long and acute; four 

 basal joints of the hind tarsi equal, the fifth as long as the three preceding. 

 Length 2.2 mm.; width 0.45 mm. New York (Catskill Mts.). 



Allied to impotens Csy., but differing in its paler coloration, 

 much smaller head and prothorax, smaller eyes and more parallel 

 and evenly rounded and less basally inflated sides of the head, 

 with much more broadly rounded basal angles; the antennae 

 are missing in the single specimen before me, which was discovered 

 among a series of Gyronycha fusciceps; but they are probably not 

 far unlike those of impotens. 



Metaxya awemeana n. sp. Large, rather stout and convex, shining, 

 black, the elytra, except a feeble and vague basal infumation, and the 

 abdominal apex, paler, brownish-testaceous, the legs pale, piceo-flavate; 

 punctures very fine, rather close but inconspicuous, dense though very 

 fine on the more alutaceous elytra but not asperate, somewhat close on 

 the abdomen except apically, the micro-reticulation there very small and 

 confusedly subtransverse; pubescence fine and very short; head moderate, 

 but little wider than long, three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, the eyes 

 convex and prominent, at their own length from the base, the tempora 

 less prominent, at first parallel, then rounding to the base, the carinae 

 distinct, entire; front evenly convex; antennae long and very slender, 

 slightly and gradually enlarged apically, black or nearly so throughout, 

 the second joint as long as the first, two to four decreasing distinctly 

 and evenly in length, four to six equal, much elongated, seven to ten a 

 little wider and also gradually slightly increasing though mutually of 

 equal length, the last slender, elongate-oval, sharply pointed, nearly as 

 long as the two preceding; prothorax two-fifths wider than long, parallel, 

 with evenly and moderately rounded sides and a very small elongate 

 impression before the scutellum; elytra but slightly shorter than wide, 



