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than wide, two and one-half times the length of the clypeus, sides gently 

 incurved at the antennal sockets. Clypeus gradually enlarged towards 

 the truncate tip, basal suture obsolete. Width of pronotum scarcely two 

 and one-fourth times the length, surface sparsely punctured. 



Colour pale cinereous. Head washed with fulvous, with few dark 

 marks, but the arcs on front distinct ; antennal pits, eyes, and a narrow 

 longitudinal area on the pleura back of eyes, dark brown, giving the m- 

 sect a very unique appearance. Pronotum obscurely irrorate with fulvous. 

 Basal angles of scutel broadly fulvous. Elytra milky white, vermicula- 

 tions very fine, faint, and evenly distributed ; without supernumerary 

 transverse veins ; legs without marks, except the usual dots at bases of 

 spines. 



Last ventral segment twice the length of preceding, hind margin 

 truncate, with a small median notch ; lateral angles very obtuse. 



Described from a single specimen collected at Yuma, Ariz., July 6th, 

 1897, by Prof. A. P. Morse. This species resembles a small spatiilatus, 

 which is its nearest relative, but differs in size, colour and genital charac- 

 ters. 



Phlepsius texanus, n. sp. 



^ . — Length 7.5 mm. Form nearest to that oi piinctisc7-iptus, which 

 it also resembles in some other characters. Head slightly broader than 

 pronotum. Vertex little produced, very obtusely angulate, length one- 

 third of the width between the eyes, or somewhat more than one-third 

 the length of the pronotum ; surface sloping, slightly transversely de- 

 pressed, meeting the front in a very obtuse angle, edge not at all com- 

 pressed. Front a third longer than wide, sides evenly curved from the 

 vertex to the clypeus, not at all bent opposite the antenna;. Clypeus 

 slightly enlarged towards the truncate tip, length once and three-fourths 

 the width at tip. Width of pronotum once and seven-eighths the length, 

 surface obscurely punctured. 



Colour cinereous, with a faint fulvous tinge on vertex, pronotum, and 

 scutel. Vertex irrorate with brown, face dark fulvous, except numerous 

 small round light dots all over, and several larger light spots on front ; 

 the ocelli in white dots. Pronotum coarsely irrorate with brown, more 

 strongly so in an irregular band between the hind angles of the eyes. 

 Scutel with two black dots on each lateral margin. Elytra milky, and, ex- 

 cept in frequent small irregular areas, marked with fine dots and very fine 

 vermiculations, the latter short, rather it'fi in number and radiating from 



