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hair-like scales of the tibiae coarser. Length, $, 4.0 mm.j width, 2.0 

 mm. North Carolina (Southern Pines), Manee. 



It is of course quite possible that these may be considered subspecies 

 of sordidus, but the structural characters involved seem to give them 

 higher value. 



The following species is allied to tectus Lee, but appears to be 

 amply distinct : 



T. languidus n. sp. — Small and slender, convex, extremely densely 

 clothed with rather broad parallel cinereous-white scales, which, on the 

 elytra, virtually conceal the striae ; beak, antennae and legs testaceous, the 

 first ( ^ ) rather arcuate, thick and nearly as long as the prothorax, the 

 latter narrow, nearly as long as wide, subparallel basally, the sides obliquely 

 converging anteriorly from rather behind the middle ; elytra almost one- 

 half longer than wide, much wider than the prothorax, hemi-elliptical, the 

 humeri well exposed and rapidly oblique at base ; legs short ; pygidium 

 (S) well developed. Length, ^^ , 2.4 mm.; width, 0.9 mm. Colorado. 



Differs from the male of ^ecfus in its much smaller size, narrower 

 form, white and not ochreous vestiture, which is composed of broader and 

 even denser scales, relatively much narrower prothorax, with less arcuate 

 sides, and notably shorter and more slender legs. 



Paratychius n. subgen. 

 The type of this subgenus of the genus Tychius, is Tychius prolixus 

 Csy. The body is moderately large in size, elongate, with the thick 

 squamose beak rapidly tapering beyond the point of antennal insertion, 

 which is far beyond the middle and with the antennal funicle 6 jointed. 

 The tarsi are large, stout and densely squamose. The following is another 

 species of the subgenus : 



T. (Paratychius) imbricatus n. sp. — Larger \k\2cc\ prolixus, elongate, 

 convex, black, the apical smooth part of the beak rufous ; vestiture of the 

 prothorax dense, consisting of narrow lanceolate strigose brown scales, 

 giving place along the median line and on the flanks to broad rounded 

 overlapping whitish scales, of which a few are also scattered among the 

 slender brown squamules, the elytra very densely clothed throughout with 

 large rounded or subquadrate overlapping scales, brown in colour, broadly 

 whitish sublaterally, two rows to each interval, with a single series of 

 slender, closely recurved brown lanceolate squamules along the middle of 

 each interval and a slender hair-like white scale from each strial punckire ; 



