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very peculiar fades." This is true of the single example in the 

 LeConte collection, which is probably the "one specimen from 

 the Middle States," described by Horn. Bolieman does not men- 

 tion this impression, and his description differs in other respects 

 from that of Horn, so that the status of the species is at present 

 in doubt. It is not represented in the Horn collection at Phila- 

 delphia, while in the U. S. National Museum collection the speci- 

 mens bearing- the name "T. aspcratus Boh." are the same as those 

 described by Pierce (1910, 362) as Lepidocricus lierricJci. 

 149 ( -). TKACHYPHLCEUS DAVISI sp. nov. 



Oblong-oval, robust. Black, densely clothed with fuscous and silvery 



gray metallic scales, the latter forming a 

 broad median and a stripe each side on 

 thorax and covering the even elytral in- 

 tervals, but on the third, fifth and seventh 

 ones forming oblong spots which alternate 

 with fuscous ones, thus giving the elytra a 

 tessellated appearance; antennae and legs dull 

 reddish-brown. Beak stout, slightly short- 

 er than thorax and with a distinct median 

 groove. Thorax nearly twice as wide as long, 

 sides strongly rounded; disc without median 

 impressed line, its sculpture concealed. Ely- 

 tra subglobose, but slightly wider at base 

 than middle of thorax, humeri obsolete, sides 

 feebly diverging to apical third, then broadly 

 rounded to apex; stria? fine, indistinctly punc- 

 tate; intervals flat, each with a row of 

 very short, stout erect blackish seise. Front, 

 tibiae expanded at apex and provided with 

 two short acute spines. Length 3.5 3.8 mm. 

 (W. 8. B.) (Fig. 47.) 



Several specimens taken by Win. T. 

 Davis from the sea beach near Fort 

 Wadsworth, Staten Island, X. Y. ; 

 April 27, 1911. We take pleasure in 

 naming it in honor of our mutual 

 friend, the collector. 



Fig. 47. Trachyphlccns darisi 

 sp. nov. X 9- Enlarged 

 side view of heau be- 

 neath. (Original.) 



XIY. GEODERCES Horn, 1876. (Gr., "the earth" 4 -"to appear like.") 



Beak short, robust, subcylindrical, tip feebly emarginate; an- 

 tenna? inserted in front of middle, scape long and slender, reach- 

 ing beyond front margin of thorax, joints 1 and 2 of funicle 

 longer than .the others, 3 7 obcouical, longer than wide; scutel- 

 lum not visible; second ventral shorter than the two following 

 united. 



