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arcuate sides, the punctures coarse and separated ; scutellum as usual 

 with an elevated median part, which is clothed densely with short 

 decumbent hair-like scales ; elytra barely a fifth longer than wide, 

 very broadly, obtusely rounded behind, the strige rather coarse, 

 moderately deep, with coarse and separated punctures, the intervals 

 flat, finely, sparsely punctate and with long erect hairs ; under sur- 

 face with erect sparse cinereous hairs, shorter, denser and more 

 decumbent on the mesosternal side-pieces. Length, 2.4-2.8 mm.; 

 width, 1. 3-1. 55 mm. Mexico (near Colonia Garcia, Sierra Madre 

 Mts., Chihuahua; elev. 7,300 feet), C. H. T. Townseud. erel?us n. sp. 



Prothorax with the erect hairs short, bristling but not very conspicuous . 2 



2 — Surface lustre feebly bronzed ; sides of the prothorax as usual con- 

 verging from base to apex but only feebly arcuate. Body ovate, 

 convex, black, clothed with grayish erect hairs ; beak long ; pronotum 

 densely and finely punctate ; elytra shining, with deep and slightly 

 punctured striae, the inteivals nearly flat, rugose and punctulate. 

 Length, 2.0 mm. Texas hispidiclus Lee. 



Surface lustre not at all bronzed, the body throughout deep black as usual, 

 the sides of the prothorax converging from base to apex but always 

 strongly arcuate, except in nanus 3 



3 — Prothorax strongly transverse, but little less than twice as wide as 

 long; erect sparse hairs almost pure white, forming single series on 

 the elytral intervals. Body short, stout, oblong oval, convex ; beak 

 slender, arcuate, moderately long , prothorax slightly though distinctly 

 narrower than the elytra, closely, moderately coarsely punctate, the 

 sparse white hairs much shorter than those of the elytra and subde- 

 cumbent ; scutellum densely albido-squamulose ; elytra but very little 

 longer than wide, broadly, obtusely rounded behind, the sides parallel 

 and arcuate; strite rather coarse, deep, strongly and closely but only 

 moderately coarsely punctate, the intervals shining, feebly and 

 sparsely punctato-rugose, the erect white hairs stiff and very conspicu- 

 ous ; under surface densely albido-squamose laterally, except on the 

 abdomen, the scales deeply multifurcate. Length, 1.7-2.0 mm.; 

 width, 1. 0-1.25 mm. Kansas consuetus n. sp. 



Prothorax much less transverse, notably less than twice as wide as long, 

 the sparse erect hairs cinereous, less conspicuous on the elytra than 

 in conuietus 4 



4 — Form stout, oval, convex, deep black, without metallic lustre of any 

 kind, the hairs cinereous-gray, short but erect and abundant on the 



