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comprising all species of that description; but after the recogni- 

 tion of the male one of them was the true propinqua and rny B. 

 polita was a nondescript (teste Ulke). The description of pro - 

 pinqua in " Short Studies, iSSr" is very similar to that of albi- 

 onica, and considering the varieties of the antennae and color, 

 and the geographical distribution of propinqua, Ulke, as well as 

 I, supposed the two species identical. 



Bryaxis albionica Motsch. <$. Piceous black. Antennae, palpi and legs 

 dark reddish brown. Elytra bright red, base and suture dark brown, 

 impunctate or very unevenly punctate. Length 1.40 mm. 



Head .punctured at the sides, with the foveae small, mutually four times 

 farther distant than either from the eye, vertex little shorter than quad- 



rate, front suddenly declive, the frontal fovea wanting or hidden by pu- 

 bescence on the declive part, which bears two small teeth ; ternpora 

 rounded, as long as the eye. Antenna as in figure 4, where the right 

 antenna is turned. Prothorax convex, though the foveae almost fully seen 

 from above. Abdomen: first dorsal three times wider than long, carinae 

 very short, far apart. Posterior tibite curved, flattened, not dilated, in- 

 termediate tibiae with a strong spur at the end. 



The specimen before me is one of Motschulsky's types, the 9 , 

 from Los Angeles, has the front not declive and the fovea nor- 

 mal. Identical -wifafundata Casey. 



