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by a single carina, the fifth tergite similar but not so long, only a little longer 

 than the fourth. Length 2.4 mm.; width 0.66 mm. Iowa (Iowa City) and 

 Ohio (Cincinnati), Wickham and Dury. 



This species is quite distinct from any of the preceding in its 

 more parallel form, in the male sexual characters and in the quadrate 

 fourth antennal joint. 



Hoplandria laeviventris n. sp. Very stout, fusoid, strongly shining, pale 

 piceo-testaceous, the head and entire abdomen blackish-piceous, the apices 

 of all the tergites paler, the legs pale; punctures rather sparse and unusually 

 fine, slightly stronger on the elytra, very fine and remote on the abdomen; 

 head rather transverse, the eyes large, very prominent, the short tempora 

 very rapidly oblique to the base; antennae of the usual form and coloration, 

 the second joint much shorter than the first and but little more slender, almost 

 exactly equal to the third, the fourth cylindric and distinctly longer than wide, 

 the fifth moderately transverse, fifth to tenth gradually increasing, the latter 

 strongly transverse, the last pointed, shorter than the two preceding and 

 scarcely so stout; prothorax less than twice as wide as long, more parallel 

 than usual, only slightly narrower at apex, the sides less rounded though 

 strongly so at apex, not quite as wide as the elytral base; elytra well developed, 

 the suture between a fourth and a third longer than the prothorax; abdomen 

 very broad and rapidly tapering, with feebly arcuate sides, the tergites very 

 flat, the first three impressed at base, the fifth but little more than one-half 

 as wide as the first and scarcely one-half longer than the fourth. Length 

 2.8-3.1 mm.; width 0.78-1.00 mm. Pennsylvania (Westmoreland Co.), 

 Schmitt. 



Though all four examples in my collection appear to be females, 

 this species may be distinguished from any of the others by antennal 

 structure and by the more rapidly tapering and scarcely punctate 

 abdomen. 



Group STRIGOTVE. 

 Strigota n. gen. 



The body in this genus is elongate-subfusoid and moderately 

 convex, the punctures very fine, dense and not evidently asperate 

 even on the elytra; they are generally as dense throughout on the 

 abdomen as on the anterior parts, as in most of the Oxypodae, which 

 the general habitus recalls to a considerable degree, the antennae 

 being rather long, heavy and very finely, closely pubescent as a rule. 

 The elytra are not more than feebly sinuato-truncate externally at 

 the apices, the abdomen long, the first tergite much shorter than any 

 of the following and more impressed, the fifth longer than the fourth. 

 The male sexual characters are very feeble. The hypomera are 



