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acutely rounded posteriorly; punctures very numerous, finer than those 

 of prothorax, regular, subserial in arrangement, each with a short, 

 suberect bristle, producing a decidedly setose appearance. Length, 

 1.5 mm. ; width, 0.6 mm. 



Male. Similar to female, except the epistoma, which has the lateral 

 angles armed with a short, conical tubercle and the front slightly 

 concave above the epistoma; first ventral segment of abdomen with 

 a small, circular, pubescent area slightly anterior to its middle. Length, 

 1.5 mm.; width, 0.5 mm. 



Type. No. 11565, U. S. National Museum; female; E. A. 

 Schwarz, collector; Victoria, Tex. 



Fifteen females, 7 males ; Victoria, Tex., March and April 

 (E. A. Schwarz) ; Columbus, Tex., June (collectors Hubbard 

 and Schwarz) ; Brownsville, Tex. (H. S. Barber) ; Cocoanut 

 Grove (Biscayne), Fla., May, and Key West, Fla., April (col- 

 lectors Hubbard & Schwarz). 



Genus ORTHOCIS Casey. 



Antennae long, lo-jointed, third joint much elongate, longer than 

 fourth, club rather small, loose and 3-jointed; prosternum well devel- 

 oped before the coxae, without a median carina ; lateral edges of pro- 

 thorax acute to apex; body elongate, glabrous, never setose or pu- 

 bescent ; apex of anterior tibiae always simple ; head and prothorax 

 not modified sexually; the only visible secondary male sexual charac- 

 ter is a small, oval, opaque, and densely pubescent area at center of 

 first ventral segment of abdomen, at the point occupied by a deep 

 circular fovea in some species of Cis, to which this genus is closely 

 allied although readily separated from it by the characters mentioned 

 above. 



Orthocis huesanus, n. sp. (Plate III, fig. 3). 



Female. Oval, glabrous, polished; prothorax piceous-black, slightly 

 rufous anteriorly; elytra straw-yellow, with broad, piceous-black band 

 either side the suture, expanded at base to the edges, much less so at 

 apex, this band perpendicularly interrupted at its middle by a broad, 

 transverse band of the same color, thus forming a Maltese cross on the 

 dorsum ; a very narrow dusky band also extends around the outer 

 edge of each elytron from base to apex. Abdomen fuscous, legs 

 amber, tibiae and tarsi darker. Head dark fuscous ; front convex, 

 minutely punctured ; epistoma flat, opaque, punctured, its anterior mar- 

 gin blending laterally with the produced angles of front which extend 

 on either side as broadly curved, entire elevations to the eye. Pro- 

 thorax broader than long, sides broadly rounded, anterior margin 

 constricted on either side, broadly rounded medially, punctures nu- 

 merous, fine, circular, deep, regular. Elytra twice as long as prothorax, 



