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completely conceal the surface sculpture, scales white on the declivous 

 sides 'of the pronotum. Head and beak very broad, convex; surface ap- 

 parently smooth; sparsely clothed with minute, suberect, squamiform 

 setae; eyes small, rounded, rather prominent, coarsely granulated. Beak 

 with an inverted V-shaped impression, the branches directed toward 

 the apical angles; apex trisinuate; scrobes long and well-defined, somewhat 

 S-shaped, becoming shallower posteriorly, terminating below the front 

 margin of the eyes. Mentum large, transverse, completely filling the 

 gular cavity, a small punctiform impression each side. Antennae dark, 

 sparsely setose; scape abruptly clavate, reaching nearly to middle of eyes; 

 funicle seven-jointed, first joint elongate, feebly clavate, equal in length 

 to the two following joints, second joint longer than third, last four sub- 

 equal, as wide as long; club elongate-oval, pubescent. 



Thorax slightly wider than long; without ocular lobes, vibrissae not 

 prominent; sides feebly arcuate, widest just before middle, thence straight 

 to base; apex arcuate-truncate, base squarely truncate, distinctly nar- 

 rower than apex. Disk of thorax vaguely rugulose, a transverse impres- 

 sion faintly indicated at apical fourth; suberect scales very small and 

 inconspicuous except a basal and apical fringe. 



Elytra elongate, oval, as wide as the thorax at base; widest at middle 

 where they are nearly one-half wider than the thorax; humeri broadly 

 rounded, angles absent; sides regularly arcuate; striae indicated by a 

 feeble convexity of the intervals, these each bearing a single row of dis- 

 tant, semi-erect, setiform scales; strial punctures scarcely evident; elytral 

 declivity oblique. There is a small shallow pit near the side margin of 

 the elytra in front of the hind coxae which appears to be for the reception 

 of the middle knees. 



Legs and abdomen with semi-erect scales similar to those of the upper 

 surface. Legs short; basal joints of tarsi subequal, second shortest, third 

 broader and bilobed, fourth nearly as long as the others together. Length 

 2.9 to 3.2 mm. 



Described from three specimens taken in the arid region 

 south of Alpine, Texas, toward the Chisos Mountains, July 15. 

 This species has the appearance of a small Elissa. The 

 shorter basal joint of the tarsi and less prominent vibrissae, 

 however, indicate its position in Minyomerus. The two gen- 

 era are very feebly differentiated by the published characters. 

 Conicollis may be distinguished from our other two species of 

 Minyomerus by the shape of the thorax. There are undoubt- 

 edly a number of still undescribed species in this genus. 

 Pandeleteius spatulatus new species. 



Form nearly as in robustus. Upper surface with pale gray and darker 

 scales intermixed, the gray usually predominating, the elytra sometimes 



