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long, the subbasal fove?e distinct, the discal moderate and sHghtly elongate; 

 elytra a little longer than the head and prothorax and very much wider, 

 somewhat longer than wide, perceptibly wider at apex than at base, the 

 basal impression broad, becoming obsolete a little beyond basal third; 

 abdomen d^s'\x\ Floridcv. Length, 1.3 mm.; width, 0.35 mm. Pennsylvania 

 (Westmoreland Co.), P. Jerome Schmitt. 



The male has the fourth ventral — not the fifth of Raffray — simple, the 

 fifth with a posteriorly arcuate flat elevation in basal half and median 

 seventh, the sixth broadly, feebly and simply impressed, and the seventh, or 

 rhomboidal ventral pygidium, large, convex and medially carinulate. 



Pycnopledus im_pressiceps, n. sp. — Body more linear and much 

 stouter, rather convex, the hind body less decidedly wider than the anterior 

 parts, the pubescence moderately long and conspicuous, similarly dark 

 testaceous, shining and subimpunctate ; head nearly similar, the eyes a 

 little larger, the ambient sulcus deeply impressed, especially anteriorly, 

 the sides of the upper surface feebly and coarsely undulato-rugose but not 

 punctate ; prothorax much wider than long and fully as wide as the head, 

 the discal fovea very deep, somewhat oval ; elytra somewhat shorter than 

 the head and prothorax, and a little shorter than wide, convex, the discal 

 basal impression obsolete at about the middle of the length ; abdomen 

 much narrower than tlie elytra and equally long, the carin?e of the two 

 basal tergites distinct. Length, 1.38 mm.; width, 0.45 mm. Pennsyl- 

 vania (Westmoreland Co.), P. Jerome Schmitt. 



The male in this unusually short, stout and convex species has two 

 transverse carinae on the median transverse line near the middle of the 

 fourth ventral, the fifth with a median pyramidal tumor, the sixth broadly 

 impressed medially, with two smaller rounded tubercles separated by about 

 a fifth of the width of the segment, the large convex carinulate ventral 

 pygidium as usual. 



Euplediis, Leach. 

 The species of this genus are very distinct froii^ the preceding in 

 their flattened form and smaller approximate cephalic fovefe among other 

 characters. 



Eupledus AcotnaJius, n. sp. — Linear, depressed, dark blackish-piceous, 

 the elytra more rufous ; pubescence very short, not conspicuous though 

 distinct, subdecumbent, the hairs directed obliquely inward posteriorly on 

 the elytra ; head large, transverse, basally truncate, the sides parallel, the 



