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abdomen shining, the minute sculpture feeble and not dense, the 

 punctures strong only very near the sides; pygidium (9) simply 

 and moderately convex; legs piceous. Length (9 ) 9.2 mm.; width 

 1.45 mm. North Carolina (Asheville). [Georgia LeConte]. 



basalis Lee. 



Form shorter and much less slender, the cinereous hairs more numerous, 

 paler and very evident; head fuscous to paler, rather finely and 

 sparsely 'punctate; antennae truly filiform, slightly (cf ) to much (9 ) 

 shorter than the body, notably ashy-pubescent distally; prothorax 

 cylindric, with distinctly arcuate sides, a little shorter than wide 

 (cf ) to nearly a third wider than long (9 ), the punctures indistinct, 

 not coarse; elytra feebly swollen apically, more strongly (9), the 

 surface flattened medially, with even rows of coarse subquadrate 

 punctures, confused apically (cf ), or with all the punctures inside 

 the feeble outer raised lines more or less confused ( 9 ) ; apices obliquely 

 and rectilinearly truncate, the outer angle not dentiform; legs 

 piceous; abdominal punctures gradually stronger toward the sides. 

 Length (cf 9 ) 7.8-9.2 mm.; width 1.3-1.85 mm. Iowa (Keokuk) 

 and Illinois (northern) iowensis n. sp. 



13 Head pale like the prothorax or but little darker, the front sparsely 

 and not very coarsely punctate; pygidium (9) strongly convex. 

 Body larger in size than usual in this group; antennae filiform but not 

 very slender, very nearly as long as the body (cf ), black, fusco- 

 pubescent; prothorax nearly as long as wide to a little shorter, the 

 sides subprominent just behind the middle, subopaque, not very 

 distinctly but coarsely punctate; elytra but feebly dilated apically, 

 more distinctly and abruptly so (9), the apical truncatures but 

 slightly oblique and not distinctly denticulate, the punctures coarse, 

 subquadrate, confused apically and smaller and confused near the 

 suture, especially in the female, the ashy hairs fuscous and indistinct, 

 the erect hairs very short; abdomen with the stronger lateral punc- 

 tures smaller than in the preceding species; carinas of the last dorsal 

 (cf) strong and very acute; legs black to piceous. Length (cf 9 ) 

 11.2-14.8 mm.; width 2.2-2.9 mm. North Carolina (Southern 

 Pines), Manee insignis n. sp. 



Head black; front strongly and closely punctate; pygidium ( 9 ) much less 

 convex 14 



14 Form slender; head black; antennae distinctly shorter than the body 

 in both sexes, slender, filiform, black; prothorax cylindric, nearly as 

 long as wide, rather sparsely but strongly punctate; elytra nearly 

 as in the preceding, the punctures irregular only very near the suture, 

 broadly so apically, the truncatures oblique, sinuate, strongly bi- 

 denticulate; legs short, black; punctures toward the sides of the 

 abdomen fine. Length (cf 9 ) 11.0-12.0 mm.; width 1.8-2.1 mm. 

 Pennsylvania, [tripunctata Fabr. nee Swed.] bimaculata Oliv. 



Form still more slender, the ashy pubescence very distinct, the lustre 

 subopaque; front strongly, very densely punctate and puberulent; 

 antennae slender, filiform, much shorter than the body, black but 

 becoming fusco-testaceous distally and somewhat ashy-pubescent, 

 with the joints gradually slightly paler toward their bases; prothorax 



