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granulate, sparsely clothed with short recumbent cinereous hairs; front 

 nearly three times as wide as the vertical diameter of the eyes. Prothorax 

 one-sixth wider than long, slightly constricted behind the apex, wider pos- 

 teriorly, where it is nearly equal in width to the elytra at the base; front 

 angles nearly right; hind angles rounded; disk obtusely elevated at mid- 

 dle; surface densely granulate and sparsely clothed with short recumbent 

 cinereous hairs. Elytra only slightly wider than prothorax, seven-tenths 

 as wide as long, parallel to posterior fourth then broadly rounded; margin 

 finely serrulate posteriorly; surface closely, coarsely striate-punctate, sparsely 

 clothed with short recumbent cinereous hairs. Scutellum triangular rather 

 densely clothed with recumbent cinereous hairs; apex broadly rounded. 

 Beneath shining, rather densely, finely punctate, sparsely pubescent; fifth 

 ventral segment truncate at apex, with a shallow round apical fovea. Tibiae 

 serrate along the exterior margin, the outer apical angles not prominent. 

 Length 3 mm.; width 1.75 mm. 



Habitat. Dallas, Texas. Described from a single male spec- 

 imen collected April 5, 1912, by W. D. Pierce on "Phoradendron." 

 Type. Cat. No. 22388, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Trichodesma pratti, new species. 



Oblong, moderately robust, more than two times as long as wide. An- 

 tennal club subequal in length to all the preceding joints united; the inter- 

 mediate joints all a little longer than wide. Prothorax very nearly equal 

 in width to the elytra; sides a little arcuate and converging posteriorly; hind 

 angles rounded; disk strongly gibbose; surface rather densely granulate 

 (each granule bearing a long, fine, erect hair) ; densely clothed with recumbent 

 cinereous hairs, becoming fulvous towards the gibbosity, except at the pos- 

 terior median part; summit of the gibbosity with four oblong tufts of erect 

 brown hairs. Elytra with coarse punctures arranged in irregular rows these 

 are nearly obscured by the numerous small rounded granules, which are 

 more abundant at the base and apex; vestiture consisting of dense recumbent 

 cinereous hairs intermixed throughout with long, fine, erect hairs. The 

 whitish recumbent hairs form a broad irregular transverse band just behind 

 the middle, the pubescence becoming sparser towards the lateral edge. 

 Within the dark basal area there are on each elytron two elongate tufts of 

 dark brown hairs, one sutural and the other parallel to and exterior to the 

 first; also an elongate tuft of fulvous hairs on the humerus. At the posterior 

 fourth there are on each elytron a transversely arcuate series of four elongate 

 tufts of dark brown hairs and small irregularly placed patches of cinereous 

 hairs. Beneath rather densely clothed with recumbent cinereous hairs and 

 rather closely granulate, except the first three ventral segments of the abdo- 

 men which are simply punctate on the median portions. Legs densely 

 pubescent, the tibiae and femora with numerous long, erect hairs. 



Length 6-7 mm.; width 2.5-3 mm. 



Habitat. Kerrville, Texas. Described from four specimens 



