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rower as well as less claviform abdomen, shorter and very much less 

 distally thickened antennae, sparser sculpture, darker color and 

 other features; in eximia, from Humboldt Co., the long antennae are 

 much heavier and thicker distally than in any of the allied species, 

 and the prothorax is larger than in either ludibunda or dejecta. 



Echidnoglossa illecta n. sp. Moderately stout and shining, uniform 

 piceous-black, the abdomen behind the second tergite more intense black, 

 the legs dark piceous, the punctures small, rather well separated though 

 less so than in the preceding and not so fine, strong and moderately close 

 on the elytra, stronger but not dense basally, fine and rather numerous 

 on the convex part of the abdomen, the vestiture notably palish, long 

 and coarse, distinct; head as long as wide, circularly rounded behind the 

 eyes, the antennae only moderately long, rather slender and only very 

 moderately incrassate distally, black throughout, the outer joints fully 

 as long as wide, the last rather longer than the two preceding; prothorax 

 relatively small, barely somewhat longer than wide, narrower than the 

 head, narrowed anteriorly from a little before the middle; elytra large, 

 quadrate, almost twice as wide as the prothorax and fully one-half 

 longer; abdomen everywhere much narrower than the elytra and only 

 very feebly subdilated posteriorly, at base scarcely three-fifths as wide 

 as the elytra. Length 3.0 mm.; width 0.63 mm. Oregon (Portland), 

 Wickham. 



This species is also allied to eximia but differs in the shorter, 

 thinner and much less incrassate antennae, relatively smaller 

 prothorax and larger elytra and far less dilated abdomen posteriorly, 

 the latter being also more punctate and pubescent and with the 

 tergites less convex. Another example, from the vicinity of 

 Portland, now before me, has the antennae longer and more in- 

 crassate distally, but the abdomen is narrow and the differences 

 may be in great part sexual. 



Echidnoglossa quadripennis n. sp. Moderately stout, dark rufo- 

 piceous, the head and posterior part of the abdomen deeper in color, 

 black, the legs dark piceous; sculpture nearly as in the preceding, the 

 pubescence not so long but rather coarse, palish and distinct; head 

 rather large, not as long as wide, semicircular behind the unusually 

 small eyes; antennae blackish, rather stout but only feebly incrassate, 

 unusually short and but little longer than the head and prothorax, the 

 outer joints distinctly wider than long, the last rather longer than the two 

 preceding, the second distinctly longer than the third; prothorax rela- 

 tively small, only very slightly narrower than the head and nearly as 

 wide as long, narrowed anteriorly from barely before the middle; elytra 

 large, quadrate, twice as wide as the prothorax and more than one-half 

 longer, the punctures not very coarse and slightly separated throughout; 

 abdomen everywhere much narrower than the elytra, only moderately 



