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Thorax at sides with sutural edge rounding out to near base, thence 

 parallel and as wide as elytra, at basic edge a slight spur conforms to 

 rounded shoulder of elytra, from which the base runs very evenly in 

 a semi-cylindrical arch scarcely flattened at top. 



Elytra conforming to thoracic base, sides parallel, the tip practically 

 parallel with frontal edge. 



Abdominal segmental edges pilose, the last more strongly so or 

 bristled, four segments protruding beyond elytra or sometimes drawn 

 in telescopically, giving the appearance of being dropped or broken off. 



Length 2 mm., width 1.2 mm., length to tip of elytra 1.6 mm. 



Specimens abundant under bark of dead pines and decidu- 

 ous trees and when exposed very lively to avoid the light. 



Coenocara nigricornis n. sp. 



$ . Antennae and palpi dark or fuscous, a peculiarity seen in no 

 other species except the very unlike scymnoidcs Lee. Color piceous, 

 not as dark as in oculata, which this species most closely resembles, 

 the more profuse pilosity giving it a gray-brown aspect; finely and 

 densely punctulated throughout, the punctures more widely separated 

 than in oculata; head proportionately larger, but eyes as small and 

 about equal in both sexes cleft about two-thirds (in bicolor Germ, the 

 eyes are nearly black, the facets more in relief, the cleft only to mid- 

 dle and in the $ much larger than in the 9 ). The elytral striae, two 

 complete near margin and one short frontal just above, are as in 

 oculata. 



Length 2.6 mm., oculata and bicolor being about 2 mm. 



Five specimens in all, three in possession of author and 

 one $ one 9 in the Blanchard addition of the LeConte col- 

 lection at Cambridge, Mass. 



The North American Species of Draeculacephala 



(Homoptera). 



By E. P. VAN DUZEE, Berkeley, Calif. 



A fine series of these insects from Georgia and Florida 

 received from Prof. J. C. Bradley has enabled me to make 

 out with some degree of certainty all the known forms ex- 

 cept producta Walker, and to distinguish four still unde- 

 scribed. In the following key the characters have been taken 

 mostly from the females as they are usually more abundant 



