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DESCRIPTIONS OF EIGHT NEW SPECIES OF 



COLEOPTERA IN THE FAMILY 



MORDELLID/E. 



BY EMIL LILJEBLAD, CHICAGO, ILL. 



In the course of the writer's studies of the Mordellidse, several 

 collections have been submitted to me. Among these, there are 

 several new species, which are described in this paper. Five of 

 these, from Texas and New Mexico, are from the collection of Mr. 

 J. W. Green; three species, two from the Atlantic Coast, and one 

 from the Pacific Ccast, are described from the collections of C. A. 

 Frost, F. R. Mason, and F. W. Nunenmacher. 

 Diclidia propinqua, sp. nov. 



Moderately elongate, clothed with very fine silvery pubescence, 

 finely , transversely strigate ; head behind the antennae dark reddish 

 brown; mouth-parts testaceous; maxillary palpi scalene; antennae 

 testaceous, first and second joints equal, each one-third shorter 

 than the third, third and fourth equal, fifth one-third shorter than 

 the fourth, sixth a little shorter than the fifth, seventh to tenth 

 equal, converging towards the apex, eleventh elongate, pointed at 

 tip, one-third longer than the seventh; thorax testaceous, sides 

 rounded and rapidly converging from the middle to apex; meso- 

 sternum very little compressed and elevated; elytra with scutellar 

 cloud, the suture to middle, a median band, and the apex, black; 

 legs testaceous; abdomen black, or very dark brown; sixth ventral 

 segment not visible. Length 3^ mm. 



Two female specimens from Jemez Mts., New Mexico, July 

 12-18; collected by Mr. John Woodgate. 



The type is in the possession of the writer; the paratype is in 

 the collection of Mr. J. W. Green, from whom the specimens where 

 received . 



This species is most closely allied to Diclidia Icetula Lee, but 

 can readily be distinguished from it by the character of the an- 

 tennal joints, and by the colour of the elytra (which are pale at 

 the apex in D. Icetula). 



Diclidia greeni, sp. nov. 



Moderately elongate (more robust in the female) ; nearly 

 entirely testaceous or flavo-testaceous (except in some specimens, 

 which have an indication of a dark, transverse cloud near the apex 



May 191S 



