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surface, especially the meso- and meta-episterna, very coarsely, 

 densely and shallowly punctate. Length 4-4.5 mm. 



Described from 10 specimens beaten from scrub-oak near 

 Arch Creek, Sanford and Ormond, Florida. March 12th.-April 

 3rd. A pair of the cotypes are in the collection of Fredric Knab, 

 and another in that of the late Mr. Blanchard. 



This is a smaller species than C. plicata. very different in the 

 sculpture of thorax and elytra and in the narrower separation of 

 the eyes. It is more subquadrate and robust than Exema gibber 

 Oliv. and has also a wholly different sculpture from that species, 

 .the tubercle being more pointed and prominent and the punctures 

 more rounded, distinct and deeper. The character usually given 

 as separating the genera Chlamys and Exema is very slight and 

 more or less variable, and it is my opinion that the latter genus 

 should be abandoned, Chlamys having the priority. 



Cryptocephaliis sanfordi, sp. nov. 



Short, robust, subcylindrical. Head, thorax, scutellum, legs 

 and under surface reddish yellow; elytra straw-yellow, the basal 

 fourth of second interval, the entire fourth interval except a small 

 oval spot at apical fourth, and three oblong spots on sixth interval 

 shining black; joints 6-11 of antennae fuscous. Front of head 

 with a few minute scattered punctures. Thorax wholly without 

 punctures. Elytra with six entire punctured dorsal striae, the 

 sutural stria represented by only 3 to 4 punctures, the first dorsal 

 forking at the middle and therefore double on basal half, the 

 fourth and fifth striae sinuous and approaching in the black spaces; 

 alternate intervals wider and wholly pale. Abdomen minutely and 

 sparsely punctate, each puncture bearing a fine prostrate hair; 

 fifth ventral deeply concave at middle. Length 3.5-4mm. 



Described from 2 specimens beaten from willow near Sanford, 

 Florida, March 25th.— 27th., 1901. 



Brachys cuprascens, sp. nov. 



Ovate, shorter and stouter than B. ovata Web. Dark bronze, 

 thickly clothed above with short coppery-red and whitish hairs, 

 those on elytra arranged in three irregular very sinuous cross- 

 bands composed mainly of the reddish hairs, but bordered ant- 

 eriorly with the whitish ones. Head and thorax as in B. ovata, 

 the median groove of the former narrower and less prominent. 

 Rows of elytral punctures much coarser and more distinct, and 

 regular than in ovata, those of the interval next to the marginal 

 carina so arranged as to give the appearance of ribs or plicae be- 

 neath the vestiture. Shallow punctures of the under surface 

 much less evident than in ovata. Last ventral of female more 

 deeply emarginate, or impressed, and with the fimbriate hairs 



