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any means be described as " zweizackig." Burmeister, moreover, states of 

 picipes that the hind coxae, as well as the pygidium, are coarsely punctured; 

 the hind coxae here are finely, very sparsely punctured ; the length given 

 for picipes is 8-9 lines, or 16-18 mm. Bates states that, in the Mexican 

 representatives, the inner small spur of the divided apex of the broad claw 

 of the anterior male tarsus is divergent ; it could scarcely be termed 

 divergent in the present species, as it is virtually continuous in direction 

 with the side margin of the claw. 



Ligyrus, Burm. 



L. Californicus, n. sp. — Much larger, stouter and more-polished than 

 gibbosus, and with shallower sculpture, castaneo-rufous ; head finely, 

 densely punctato-rugose, with the transverse carina strong, acute and 

 straight ; prothorax with the usual apical indentation and short acute 

 tubercle, the punctures strong and rather numerous; elytra with the series 

 of small punctures scarcely impressed. Length, 15. 0-16. 5 mm.; width, 

 9.2-10.0 mm. Southern California. 



Differs from gibbosus in its larger size and stouter build, smoother 

 surface, and especially in the much more dilated posterior tibiae. 



L. spissipes, n. sp. — Form nearly as in the last but less robust and 

 more coarsely and deeply sculptured, similar in colour ; head less finely 

 and not so densely punctato-rugose, the carina more noticeably depressed 

 medially, particularly in the male ; prothorax more abbreviated, the punc- 

 tures similarly coarse but not quite so numerous, decidedly sparse ; elytra 

 with the striae of coarser punctures evidently impressed. Length, 12. 2-15.0 

 mm.; width, 7.9-9.2 mm. New Mexico. 



This species is also distinguished from gibbosus by the short and 

 very rapidly and broadly dilated hind tibiae. 



L. rugiceps, Lee, belongs to the genus Euetheola, of Bates. 



Valgus, Scriba. 

 V. minutus, n. sp. — Similar in general form to squamiger, but very 

 much smaller and with different vestiture; red-brown in colour, moderately 

 shining ; head with erect scales, dense posteriorly, very much finer and 

 sparser anteriorly ; prothorax as long as wide, narrowed anteriorly, with 

 semi-erect scales, coarse and dense laterally toward base and on the two 

 elevated ridges, fine and sparser elsewhere ; elytra with rather uneven 

 approximate series of small rounded tubercles, which are very close-set, 

 each with a minute central puncture from which proceeds a slender sub- 

 erect scale, the scales of the series directed outwardly ; female with the 



