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Strigota recta n. sp. Parallel, convex, piceous-black and shining 

 throughout, the elytra pale brown and duller, blackish along the suture, 

 more broadly basally, the legs very pale; punctures very fine and feeble, 

 close, rather dense but indistinct on the elytra, less minute, feebly asperu- 

 late and rather widely separated on the abdomen, the vestiture very 

 short; head wider than long, more than three-fourths as wide as the 

 prothorax, the eyes at about their own length from the base, the tempora 

 parallel, broadly arcuate and slightly fuller than the eyes; antennae 

 only moderately long, rather heavy, gradually and moderately incrassate, 

 blackish, picescent basally, the second joint longer than the first or third, 

 fourth as long as wide, the outer joints nearly one-half wider than long, 

 the last as long as the two preceding; prothorax less than a third wider 

 than long, perfectly parallel, with very evenly and moderately rounded 

 sides, unimpressed; elytra rather transverse, with diverging straight 

 sides, at base barely as wide as the prothorax, the suture not quite so 

 long as the latter; abdomen almost as wide as the elytra, parallel, the 

 fifth tergite evidently longer than the fourth, four-fifths as wide as the 

 first; hind tarsi long, slender, rather finely pubescent, the basal joint as 

 long as the next two. Length 1.7 mm.; width 0.4 mm. Connecticut 

 (New Haven), Viereck. 



In its less closely punctate abdomen this species differs greatly 

 from the near by oppidana, and resembles more nearly gnava, from 

 the Carolina mountains; it is narrower and more parallel than the 

 latter, with less transverse prothorax and much less apically nar- 

 rowed abdomen. 



Subgenus Eustrigota nov. 



Much stouter and more massive than Strigota and with shorter 

 antennae. The infra-lateral cephalic carinae are very fine but 

 apparently entire, the middle coxae narrowly separated, the meso- 

 sternal process extending well behind their middle, with its very 

 free tip subacute though not finely aciculate and separated from 

 the transverse and very feebly subangulate metasternum by a 

 moderately long deep interval. The hind tarsi are moderately 

 long and slender, with the basal joint as long as the next two. 

 The type may be described as follows: 



Strigota (Eustrigota) seclusa n. sp.- Stout, rather convex and shining, 

 blackish-piceous, the elytra and abdominal tip slightly paler, the legs 

 blackish, pale distally; punctures minute, rather close, less minute, 

 asperulate and moderately separated throughout the elytra and abdomen; 

 pubescence short, dusky, longer on the abdomen; head almost as long 

 as wide, only three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, the eyes at nearly 

 their own length from the base, not very prominent, the tempora about 

 equally so; antennae rather short, blackish, barely at all paler basally, 



