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shorter than wide, subparallel, the suture one-half longer than the prothorax; 

 abdomen at base nearly as wide as the elytra, feebly tapering throughout, 

 the fifth tergite fully four-fifths as wide as the first and (cf ) with the usual 

 subapical cariniform tubercle small, the sixth with the ridge of the median 

 line slender, the apex cinculary emarginate at the middle. Length 2.0 mm.; 

 width 0.56 mm. Oregon (Portland). 



Distinguishable from the preceding species by its narrower, more 

 parallel outline, longer elytra and other features of coloration and 

 structure. 



Hoplandria Kr. 



Assuming ocliracea Kr., as the type of this genus, the general 

 form of the body is broadly fusoid, convex anteriorly, rather 

 strongly, not densely punctate, with well developed eyes and elytra, 

 the latter sinuate externally at the apices, strong entire cephalic 

 carinae and with the first four joints of the notably stout posterior 

 tarsi equal. The middle coxae are widely separated, the sterna 

 mutually closely abutting along a transverse suture, which lies a 

 little beyond the middle of their length, a structure wholly different 

 from that of Platandria, although the male tergum similarly bears 

 tubercles and crests. Pulchra Kr., does not seem to be strictly 

 congeneric with ocliracea, if the sexual characters are correctly 

 described ; I have not seen it. Ocliracea is a very widely distributed 

 species from New York to Georgia, Mississippi and Texas (El Paso). 

 There are several other species allied to ocliracea in our cabinets as 

 follows: 



Hoplandria texana n. sp. Moderately stout and convex, shining, pale 

 ochreo-testaceous, the abdomen darker, rufous, with a cloud on the fourth 

 tergite; punctures strong but well separated, finer and slightly asperulate 

 on the abdomen, where they are about twice as sparse as on the pronotum; 

 pubescence rather long, decumbent, pale; head nearly black, slightly trans- 

 verse, the front slightly prolonged, the eyes large and prominent, at much 

 less than their own length from the base, the short tempora rapidly con- 

 verging basally; antennae short, fuscous, testaceous and slender basally, 

 rapidly and strongly incrassate distally, the third joint shorter and more 

 obconic than the second, the fourth slightly wider than long, subglobular, 

 five to ten strongly transverse, the last obtusely pointed, as long as the two 

 preceding; prothorax twice as wide as long, the sides strongly rounded and 

 evidently converging from the rounded basal angles to the apex, rounded 

 at base, much wider than the head and as wide as the elytral base, having 

 a very small and almost obsolete rounded basal impression; elytra short 

 and strongly transverse, subparallel, the suture only very slightly longer than 

 the prothorax; abdomen at base nearly as wide as the elytra, feebly tapering, 



