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Sableta (Canastota) phrenetica n. sp. Rather large, stout, parallel, convex, 

 strongly shining, pale testaceous, the elytra more flavate, only very indefi- 

 nitely and feebly infumate apically, the head and a small transverse subapical 

 abdominal cloud piceous-black ; punctures fine, not very close, stronger 

 and asperulate on the elytra, where the pubescence is rather long and distinct; 

 head rather large, much wider than long, parallel at the sides, the eyes convex, 

 at slightly less than their own length from the base; antennae rather long 

 and heavy, very gradually incrassate and thick distally, fusco-testaceous, 

 paler basally, the basal joint very much longer and thicker than the second, 

 the latter scarcely longer than the third, the fourth moderately, the subapical 

 joints strongly, transverse, the last large, pointed, longer than the two pre- 

 ceding; prothorax large, convex, transverse, distinctly wider than the head, 

 fully as wide as the elytral base, subparallel and moderately rounded at the 

 sides, somewhat more rounded and narrowed anteriorly, with a feeble rounded 

 impression at base; elytra rather transverse, with feebly diverging sides, 

 the suture nearly a fourth longer than the prothorax; abdomen a little nar- 

 rower than the elytra, parallel, with the thick margins abruptly obsolete on 

 the fifth tergite, which is not quite as long as the fourth; sixth segmental 

 plates abruptly a good deal narrower than the fifth; sexual characters not 

 evident, the sixth ventral plate narrowly rounded at apex and the sixth tergite 

 sinuato-truncate in the type. Length 2.0 mm.; width 0.65 mm. British 

 Columbia (Metlakatla), Keen. 



A very distinct species in its rather large size, stout form, longer 

 antennae, which are however similarly very thick and gradually 

 incrassate, rather large head and other characters. 



Sableta (Canastota) flaviventris n. sp. Larger, strongly shining, the punc- 

 tures very fine, not dense, very minute and comparatively sparse on the 

 abdomen; color pale testaceous, the head piceous, the elytra rather more 

 flavate, infumate postero-externally and along the suture basally, the ab- 

 domen wholly pale but with all the segments rather darker basally than 

 apically; head slightly transverse, more parallel, the eyes large, at much less 

 than their own length from the base, the tempora at first equally prominent, 

 then broadly rounded, the carinae very fine and far from entire; antennae 

 longer than usual, gradually strongly incrassate, the first three joints equal 

 in length, the first but little thicker, the outer joints distinctly transverse 

 though much less so than in the flaveola type, the last long, cylindric, rapidly 

 pointed at tip and longer than the two preceding; prothorax moderately 

 transverse, distinctly wider than the head and very little narrower than the 

 elytra, parallel, with feebly arcuate sides, more rounding at apex, the basal 

 impression rather large but very feeble; elytra moderately transverse, the 

 suture a third longer than the prothorax, the apices rather broadly but dis- 

 tinctly sinuate externally; abdomen at base not quite as wide as the elytra, 

 the straight sides feebly converging from base to the apex of the fifth segment; 

 tarsi slender, nearly as in canadensis. Length 2.7 mm.; width 0.68 mm. 

 Texas (Dallas), Wickham. 



This species is decidedly aberrant when compared with the pre- 



