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rior surface of the head convex, with a faint medial carina; pro- 

 sternum convex, not carinate; mesosternum short, narrow between 

 the globiHar coxae; metasternum very large, longitudinally stil- 

 cate, densely punctate; the second ventral as long as the 'two 

 adjoining segments. 



Briaraxis depressa n. sp. Depressed, dark ferruginous, pubescence 

 fine, sericeous, punctate throughout. Length 1.15 mm. 



Head behind the eyes one-half wider than the front, vertex flat, with 

 four small nude fovese, two near the frontal margin, connected by a faint 

 transverse line, and two larger ones in a line through the middle of the 

 eyes; occiput triangularly impressed. Antennae as long as the head and 

 prothorax, joints i, 2 and 3 subequal, decreasing, 4 smaller, 5 larger, equal 

 to 3; joints 6 and 7 equal to 4, all longer than wide, obconical; 8 quad- 

 rate; 9 little longer, transverse, as wide as 2; 10 one-fourth wider, as long 

 as 2; the last ovoid, not acuminate, one-half longer than wide. Sides of 

 the prothorax rounded (not edged); disc broadly convex, widest through 

 the anterior third, where the outlines are evenly arcuate, thence almost 

 straight to the neck and the base; the lateral pubescent foveae situated in 

 a shallow ample depression, the medial one nearer the base, small, pro- 

 longed forward as a shallow, ill-defined medial depression. Elytra de- 

 pressed, widest near the posterior angles and one-third wider than the 

 shoulder width, and but little wider than the length of the suture; base 

 trifoveate, the outer fovea large, with a discal line on third of the elytral 

 length. Abdomen without basal carinae, border rather narrow, the seg- 

 ments subequal in length. 



Dry Tortugas. 



Bryaxis i Reichenbachia i arthritica n. sp. Impunctate, brownish red, 

 pubescence short, inconspicuous. Length 1.4 mm. 



Head flat, the disc from the front to the base one-third longer than the 

 basal width, very slightly narrower on the front ; eyes prominent, foveaa 

 equidistant, the frontal foveae situated in a transverse impression, the lat- 

 eral ones not more than their own diameter from the eye. Prothorax 

 convex, so that the lateral foveae appear from above as ellipses. Elytra 

 si miewhat alutaceous, with three basal foveae. Abdominal basal carinae 

 divergent, one-half the length of the segment, and one-third as distant as 

 the total width. Ventrals without sexual marks. 



-Antennae compressed from side to side, very irregular, not one 

 joint like the other (PI. v, fig. 7). Intermediate trochanters armed with 

 a blunt thorn. 



San Obispo, Cal. (Carl Fuchs). 



Ctenisis dispar Sharp. 



In a recent paper in the "Transactions" of the American En- 

 tomological Society (xx, p. 282) I mentioned the occurrence of 

 this species in Arizona, found by A. Bolter. 



