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with dirty white, stout and strigose scales, the antennal club rather 

 small, with distinct sutures ; prothorax relatively larger than . in 

 imbellis, shorter than wide, narrowing anteriorly though scarcely 

 constricted at apex, convex, coarsely, densely cribrate and with small 

 whitish strigose scales throughout ; elytra less than a fourth longer 

 than wide, a third wider than the prothorax, evenly rounded in apical 

 two-fifths, the sulci very coarse, deep and coarsely, deeply punctate 

 throughout, the narrow cinereous scales subevenly distributed 

 throughout, isolited, forming even series on the intervals, becoming 

 recurved and not closely decumbent apically ; under surface with the 

 usual crust of large whitish scales. Length, 1.58 mm. 3 width, 0.62 



mm. Arizona (Sta. Rita Mts.), Wickham porcatus n. sp. 



Form nearly as in imbellis but much more abbreviated, blackish-brown ; 

 antennal club small ; prothorax narrow, nearly as long as wide, 

 strongly constricted at apex, very densely cribrate and clothed dense- 

 ly with closely decumbent but curved strigose scales, intermingled 

 with a good many larger oval scales laterally and basally ; elytra 

 shorter than in any other species, only just visibly longer than wide, 

 rounded in apical half, the scales brown, parallel, strigose, close-set 

 in single lines on the intervals but very inconspicuous, intermingled 

 with a few widely scattered white scales, which are however not 

 rounded but parallel and strigose like the others ; sulci very coarse 

 and deep, strongly punctured, the intervals convex. Length, 1.65 

 mm.; width, 0.62 mm. Texas (Del Rio), Wickham. cnrtipeiinis n. sp. 



14— Body moderately stout, convex, piceous-brown \ beak well developed, 

 clothed densely above basally with narrow strigose whitish scales, 

 which, on the head, become s[)arser, brown and hair-like ; scape not 

 attaining the base, the club moderate, as long as the four preceding 

 joints ; eyes lenticular but larger than usual and slightly elevated 

 posteriorly, the facets, however, not becoming noticeable coarser ; 

 prothorax convex, not quite as long as wide, the sides parallel and 

 rounded basally, rounding and strongly converging apically from near 

 the middle, the punctures not very coarse, deep, poiygonally crowded, 

 each with a narrow strigose brown scale ; elytra nearly a third longer 

 than wide, one-half wider than the prothorax, obtuse behind, plenti- 

 fully clothed with narrow scales which are brown and whitish inter- 

 mingled, with a patch of oval whitish scales of diflferent character at 



