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to the base, the vestiture close, very short; color of the head blackish- 

 piceous, of the prothorax very pale brownish-testaceous, of the elytra still 

 paler brownish-flavate, scarcely visibly infumate at the scutellum, of 

 the abdomen very pale reddish-flavate, with a large black subapical 

 cloud, the legs very pale; head short and transverse, three-fourths as 

 wide as the prothorax, the eyes large and very prominent, at one-half 

 their length from the base, the tempora much less prominent, converging 

 and evenly arcuate from the eyes to the base, the carinae fine but entire; 

 antennae pale flavate throughout, short, the second and third joints 

 subequal in length, fourth slightly wider than long, not much wider than 

 the apex of the third, five to the tip abruptly much wider, stout and 

 subequal in thickness, the ninth and tenth mutually similar, fully twice 

 as wide as long, the last large, much longer than the two preceding, 

 pointed; prothorax rather small and short, three-fourths wider than long, 

 parallel and strongly, evenly rounded at the sides, the median line 

 distinctly impressed throughout the length; elytra at base fully a fifth 

 wider, the suture two-fifths longer, than the prothorax; abdomen slender, 

 much narrower than the elytra, parallel, narrowing just visibly toward tip, 

 the fifth tergite scarcely so long as the fourth, the sixth (9) broadly 

 rounded at tip, becoming feebly sinuate medially. Length 2.0 mm.; 

 width 0.42 mm. New York (Catskill Mts.). 



Quite distinct from the preceding in its smaller size and more 

 slender outline, in the form of the head and tempora, in the paler 

 and parallel-sided outer part of the antennae, this being gradually 

 incrassate distally in puricula,'m its still shorter prothorax, in its 

 denser punctuation throughout and subdepressed upper surface. 



Pseudota nugatoria n. sp. Rather stout, moderately convex, shining, 

 piceous, the head and abdomen black, the latter slightly pale basally and 

 at apex, with the reticulation large and polygonal; elytra rather pale 

 brownish-flavate, feebly infumate at the scutellum and external apical 

 angles, the legs very pale; pubescence pale, not very short and somewhat 

 coarse; head convex, but little wider than long, rather more than three- 

 fourths as wide as the prothorax, the eyes prominent, at distinctly less 

 than their own length from the base; antennae blackish-piceous with the 

 first two joints pale, rather thick, moderately short, only very gradually 

 incrassate, the second joint much shorter than the first and evidently 

 longer than the more obconic third, which is only about one-half longer 

 than wide, fourth slightly transverse, the outer joints short, the ninth 

 not quite twice as wide as long, very slightly shorter than the tenth, the 

 last ogivally pointed, distinctly longer than the two preceding; prothorax 

 about one-half wider than long, parallel and rounded at the sides, wholly 

 unimpressed; elytra at base about a sixth wider, the suture nearly one- 

 half longer, than the prothorax; abdomen evidently narrower than the 

 elytra, parallel basally, arcuately and distinctly narrowing apically, the 

 fifth tergite equal to the fourth, the sixth in the type feebly sinuato- 

 truncate and even at tip, the side angles slightly more than right and 

 apparently unmodified, the sixth ventral evenly semicircular. Length 

 1.5 mm.; width 0.4 mm. Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia). 



