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rowly and very moilerately impressed at base. Nearctlc Pacific coast. 



Type ..4. quadricollis Csy . Anepsiota 



12 — Middle coxae contiguous; mesosternal process very short but acute, 

 the metasternum broadly obtuse, not entering the intercoxal space, the 

 longitudinal discontinuity longer than in any allied genus; hind tarsi 

 only moderately short, the first two joints as in Liogluta; antennae 

 nearly as In that genus but more elongate; prothorax moderately large, 

 generally parallel; elytra well developed; impre^sioD8 of the first two 

 tergites large and deeply concave, that of the third much narrower and 

 feeble. Nearctlc western mountain regions. Type H. helenica Csy. 

 (n. sp.) Homalotusa 



The Homalota of this table is given in the sense understood 

 by Rey. There is some reason to believe that the almost 

 uniformly colored and dark testaceous species identified above 

 as Liogluta sexnotata Thorns., is wrongly determined and I 

 therefore hesitate to found a genus upon it, simply indicating 

 its salient characters in the table. 



Macroterma n. gen. 



Of this genus there are at least two species now known ; 

 they may be described as follows : — 



form stout, subparallel, moderately convex, alutaceous, distinctly and 

 evenly micro-reliculate throughout except the abdomen, which is more 

 finely and feebly slrigilate in broken transverse lines ; punctures 

 everywhere extremely fine, not dense, sparse on the abdomen; pubes- 

 cence short, decumbent and inconspicuous, pale; color black, the pro- 

 thorax slightly piceous, the elytra pale brownish- flavate; legs pale, the 

 antennae blackish throughout; head as long as wide, arcuately narrowed 

 behind the large and moderately prominent eyes; antennae attaining the 

 middle of the elytra, stout, the three basal joints elongate, the second 

 shorter than the third, lour to ten distinctly transverse, the eleventh 

 gradually pointed, as long as the preceding three combined; prothorax 

 nearly a third wider than the head, a fourth wider than long, parallel and 

 broadly, evenly arcuate at the sides, arcuate at base, the angles obtuse; 

 surface not at all impressed at any point; elytra fully two-fifths wider 

 and a third longer than the prothorax, the sides evidently diverging 

 from the humeri, which arc distinctly exposed at base; abdomen 

 parallel, narrowed slighily at tip, uairower than the elytra; tibiae 

 and tarsi slender, moderately long. Length 3.5 mm.; width 0.9 mm. 

 New York (Ithaca), — H. H. Smith alutacea n. sp. 



Form nearly similar, feebly, minutely and sparsely punctate, more shining, 

 the micro-reticulation and abdominal strigilation very feeble, black, the 

 elytra and legs pale brownish-testaceous, the antennae blackish 

 throughout; pubescence rather longer but sparser and inconspicuous; 



