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lation is unusually coarse and irregular; color piceous-black, the elytra 

 piceous-brown, the abdomen pale at apex, the legs very pale throughout; 

 head nearly as long as wide, somewhat oval or feebly swollen basally, the 

 eyes rather small and not prominent, the carinae distinct and entire; antennae 

 black, slightly pale basally, rather long, gradually and moderately incrassate, 

 the basal joint longer and much stouter than the second, oval, the latter a 

 little longer than the third, the outer joints compact, moderately transverse, 

 the last subcylindric, rapidly obtusely pointed at tip and almost as long as 

 the three preceding; prothorax very large, parallel, with very evenly and 

 rather strongly arcuate sides, moderately transverse, much wider than the 

 head and a little wider than any part of the elytra, the latter rather transverse, 

 with feebly diverging sides, the apices not evidently sinuate externally, the 

 suture distinctly shorter than the prothorax; abdomen at base as wide as 

 the elytra, arcuately narrowing apically; hind tarsi very slender, filiform, 

 the four basal joints equal. Length 1.6 mm.; width 0.38 mm. Virginia 

 (Fredericksburg) . 



This species is not congeneric with the preceding, but I will 

 associate the two together for the present, instead of proposing 

 another generic term. 



Taxicerella n. subgen. 



The minute type of this subgenus resembles Taxicera in the 

 structure of the antennae, but has the middle coxae much less approx- 

 imate, the mesosternal process not acute and aciculate at apex 

 but obtuse and subtruncate, the metasternum behind the coxse 

 not transverse and virtually straight as in Taxicera deplanata Grav., 

 but prolonged anteriorly and sharply angulate. The hind tarsi 

 are rather short, the first four joints equal. It is evidently allied 

 in reality not to Taxicera, but to Sableta and Canastota. 



Sableta (Taxicerella) remissa n. sp. Subparallel, moderately convex, rather 

 shining, the micro-reticulation distinct, coarse but feeble on the abdomen, 

 the punctures fine, well spaced, the vestiture rather coarse but inconspicuous; 

 color dark piceo-testaceous throughout, the abdomen somewhat clouded except 

 at apex and toward base; head quadrate, well developed, but little wider 

 than long, the eyes convex and rather prominent, at about their own length 

 from the base, the tempora straight and parallel and not so laterally prominent, 

 the carinae fine, only visible basally; antennae short, gradually and rapidly, 

 strongly incrassate, the basal joint much longer and thicker than the second, 

 which is about twice as long as wide and subconstricted basally, as long as 

 the third and fourth combined, the former but little longer than wide, obconic, 

 the latter strongly transverse, the outer joints compact, very transverse, 

 the last longer than the two preceding, the bristling sparse setae distinct 

 throughout; prothorax strongly transverse, slightly widest apically but with 

 the sides subevenly and moderately arcuate throughout, the median line 

 finely and feebly impressed, evidently wider than the head and about as wide 

 T. L. Casey, Mem. Col. I, Sept. 1910. 



