\'Ai THE CANAUIAN KNTtiMULUUlST. 



moderate nunibsr of more erect paler scales po5teri»)rly ; beak ( 9 ) rather 

 long, very slender, arcuate ; proihorax shorter, twice as wide as long, 

 parallel, with arcuate sides, arcuately narrowed and subconstricted apically; 

 scutelhim as wide as long, ogival ; elytra shorter than in any other species, 

 barely visibly longer than wide, parallel, very obtusely rounded behind, 

 with widely exposed humeri, a third wider than the prothorax ; alternate 

 intervals of slightly greatt-r convexity i)osieriorly. but only very faintly so 

 anteriorly, the stria* fine and rather finely punctate. Length, 9. 2.85 mm.; 

 width, 1.3 mm. Nebraska (West Toint). 



Resembles helvola somewhat but shorter, with much more abbreviated 

 elytra and with the alternate intervals not distinctly more convex through- 

 out the length, but only noticeably so posteriorly and less markedly even 

 there; also with the stria; more finely punctate. In the male oi helvola the 

 beak appears to be radically different from that of the male of the 

 horridula type, where it is thick, being very slender, almost as in the 

 female and with the anteimso less anterior ; but the fifth ventral is rather 

 deeply impressed medially and the pygidium rem;irkably large and 

 conspicuous. 



Loceptes n. gen. 



Body somewhat as in Thysanocnemis, the beak stout, separated from 

 the head by a very feeble transverse impression, squaniose, the antennal 

 scape extending to the eyes, which are moderate in size and coarsely 

 faceted, the funicle as in Thysanocnemis, the club but little shorter, with 

 the sutures fine ; abdominal sutures straight, deep and distinct, the first 

 very feebly anguUte medially ; femora with a moderate acute tooth be- 

 neath, the tarsal claws stronglv, very acutely toothed internally near the 

 base: scutellum narrowly elevated, parallel and glabrous. 



This genus resembles Thysanocntmis in api)earance very strongly but 

 may be distinguished readily from it, as well as Piocetes, by the characters 

 given. 'Ihe type is the following : 



/-. recessus n. sp. — Body somewhat as in Thysanocnemis graphita, dark , 

 densely clothed with short and rather broad decumbent pale scales, feebly 

 and irregularly variegated with small blackish areas on the elytra and 

 mingled, on the prothorax and al )ng the elytral intervals, with a few short 

 recurved cinereous setae ; beak ( c? ) stout, moderate in length, scjuamose, the 

 eyes separated on the front by the full width of the beak ; prothorax rather 

 small, wider than long, subparallel and rounded at the sides, constricted 

 apically, strongly, closely but not densely punctate, the scales more hair-like 



