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Ocalea Erichs. 



The species are narrower in build, with relatively smaller pro- 

 thorax and longer and much more slender antennae than in the 

 preceding genus; to the species previously described, and, as occur- 

 ring in North America wholly confined to the subasiatic fauna of 

 our Pacific coast regions, the following may be added: 



Ocalea agnita n. sp. Moderately slender, rather convex, highly 

 polished, the integuments without trace of minute ground sculpture, 

 the punctures fine and rather sparse, a little closer and feebly asperate 

 on the elytra, very sparse on the abdomen; pubescence rather coarse, 

 dusky, not dense, sparse on the abdomen; color dark piceous-brown, 

 the head and entire abdomen more blackish, the legs obscure brown; 

 head slightly wider than long, three-fourths as wide as the prothorax, 

 parallel, the eyes rather convex, at nearly their own length from the base; 

 antennae dusky, gradually slightly paler basally, extending to the middle 

 of the elytra, gradually feebly incrassate, the second joint fully as long 

 as the first, very slightly longer than the third, fourth a little longer than 

 wide, the outer joints fully a third wider than long, the last rather small, 

 ovoidal, gradually pointed, shorter than the two preceding; prothorax 

 small, subparallel, with arcuate and post-medially feebly subangulate 

 sides and rounded base, a third wider than long, completely unimpressed; 

 elytra well developed, subparallel, shorter than wide, a fourth wider and 

 nearly one-half longer than the prothorax, the apical sinuses deep; ab- 

 domen not broad, distinctly narrower than the elytra, parallel, very 

 slightly narrowing apically, the margins thin, the fifth tergite one-half 

 longer than the fourth. Length 3.0 mm.; width 0.7 mm. Arizona 

 (Winslow), Wickham. 



In general outline this species resembles vancouveri perhaps more 

 than any other, but it is smaller, narrower and especially with more 

 slender abdomen, has no trace of the ante-scutellar pit of that species 

 and the antennae are less elongate, with shorter outer joints than 

 in that or any other species known to me. From fusca Fenyes, it 

 differs in coloration and in having no trace of the "shallow rounded 

 basal impression" of the pronotum. 



Echidnoglossa Woll. 



This genus, which I formerly named Colusa in describing some of 

 the many Californian forms, seems to be of world-wide distribution, 

 at least in the northern hemisphere. It has lately been identified 

 with a Chilean genus named Blepharhymenius by Solier (1851), 

 written also Blepharhymemis by Solier, and now changed to Ble- 

 pharrhymemis by the compilers of the recent European catalogue. 



