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hairs ; the prosternal, mesosternal and metasternal side pieces are densely 

 pubescent with white, as is also the vertical portion of the ventral segments, 

 there being in addition a row of four rounded spots of the same colour and 

 nature on each side of the abdominal region. The visible portions of the 

 under surface are distinctly imbricately punctate. Claws with a rather 

 broad, sharp tooth, which is not notably inflexed. Length, 6 mm. 



Allied to A. i?/and?is, Horn, from which the gibbous pronotum and 

 non-carinate scutellum will separate it. It rather closely approaches A. 

 gibbicollis. Fall, but may be distinguished by the emarginate presternum, 

 non-carinate thoracic angles, and presumably by the ornamentation, as 

 Fall makes no mention of discal thoracic vitt^e, nor of lateral abdominal' 

 spots inside of the vertical stripe. 



The type was taken by myself at Deming, New Mexico, August i8, 

 and is apparently a male. The first and second ventrals are vaguely 

 longitudinally impressed at middle. 



EuGASTRA, Lee. 



In describing a species under the above generic caption, I do 

 not wish to be understood as favoring the separation of Eugasira from 

 Laclmosterna because of any supposed great structural differences. I am 

 merely following the example of Mr. Bates, who, in the Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana, expresses the opinion that on account of the unwieldy size of 

 the old genus Lachnosterna, it is advisable to retain certain names 

 to indicate more or less well-defined groups, which may eventually be 

 limited in some more satisfactory manner than is possible at present. 



E. epigcea, n. sp.— Subovate, obtuse behind, convex, nearly black, 

 slightly shming. Clypeus barely perceptibly emarginate in front in 

 the male, more distinctly so in the female, densely, deeply and coarsely 

 punctured, margin reflexed ; front punctured like the clypeus, occiput less 

 strongly. Thorax about one-half broader than long, widest about the 

 middle, which is rather sharply rounded, almost subangulate ; margin 

 coarsely serrate, sparsely fimbriate ; surface coarsely, somewhat deeply 

 punctured, densely in the neighbourhood of the anterior angles, more 

 sparsely and irregularly on the disc, where smooth spaces are left ; median 

 line obliterated. Scutellum shorter in the female than in the male, 

 sublriangular in the latter sex, a few large serial punctures along the sides. 

 Elytra with basal margin a little elevated on each side of the scutellum, 

 form broadly oval, surface even, not sulcate or costate, except that the 

 longitudinal line on each side of the suture is well marked ; disc with 



