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Habitat. — New Haven, Connecticut. H. L. Viereck, collector. 



A black species related to polysericeus, from which it differs 

 in having the punctures on the scutellum similar in size to those of 

 the lateral lobes of the mesonotum and from colosericeus and 

 monosericeus in having the vertical furrows obsolete. 



Dolerus inspiratus, n. sp. — Female: Body black with the 

 entire prothorax, the tegulae, the median lobe of the mesonotum, 

 the front legs below the knees, and abdominal segments one to 

 six, rufous; head with a concave furrow from the vertical furrows 

 to the lateral margin of the head behind the compound eyes, a 

 distinct carina between the posterior orbits and the caudal aspect 

 of the head ; the postocellar area more closely and finely punctured 

 than the posterior orbits: the posterior orbits with an impunctate 

 area adjacent to the vertical furrows; the vertical furrows puncti- 

 form; the antennal furrows not indicated except adjacent to the 

 antennal sockets; the scutellar appendage longitudinally striate; 

 the impunctate area of the lateral lobes of the mesonotum not 

 extending to the median lobe; the median and lateral lobes uni- 

 formly punctured, the punctures distant; the scutellum uniformly, 

 closely punctured; the saw-guides slightly exserted, straight above, 

 convex below, and convexly truncated to a point at apex above. 

 Length 9 mm. 



Habitat. — New Haven, Connecticut; A. B. Champlin, collector. 

 Eagle Bend, Minnesota; J. P. Jensen, collector. 



This species is related to conju«atus and dysporus, from both 

 of which it differs in the arrangement of the punctuation of the 

 posterior orbits and the postocellar area and also by the transverse 

 brownish band on the prothorax and mesothorax. 



Dolerus lesticus, n.sp. — Female and male: Body black with 

 the entire prothorax, the dorsal and lateral portions of the meso- 

 pleurse, and the median lobe of the mesonotum, rufous; the third 

 segment of the antenna? subequal in length to the fourth ; the vertex 

 and the front uniformly and generally punctured ; the antennal 

 furrows slightly indicated adjacent to the antennal sockets; the 

 vertex without furrows or carina 1 ; the vertical furrows distinct, 



