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to tip ; epipleurag slightly reflexed ; beneath thickly clothed with ash- 

 colored pubescence, finely punctured. Legs: femora and tibiae black: 

 tarsi dark rufous. Length 2^ lines. 

 From Mr. H. Ulke. 



PaiSTOSCELIS FULVO-TARSIS, n. sp. 



Piceous-bronze ; shining, coarsely punctured, clothed with grayish 

 pubescence ; tibiae and tarsi fulvous. 



Hab. California. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila.) 



Head black, shining, finely punctured ; clothed with grayish pubes- 

 cence ; antennse and mouth piceous. Thorax slightly wider than long, 

 coarsely punctured, angles obtuse; lateral margins much rounded. 

 Scutellum rounded at the tip. Elytra rugosely punctured, dorsal sur- 

 face slightly flattened ; densely pubescent; sides parallel, rounded sud- 

 denly to the tip ; beneath black, well clothed with pubescence; minutely 

 punctured. Legs : femora piceous ; tibiae and tarsi fulvous. Length 

 ly line. 



From Mr. H. Ulke. 



Pristosoelis nigricornis, n. sp. 



Black, somewhat shining, punctured, clothed with short grayish 

 pubescence ; legs piceous. 



Hab. Kansas. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila.) 



Head closely punctured, depressed at the side of each antenna, form- 

 ing a central ridge or tubercle, becoming obsolete before reaching the 

 vertex which is much flattened and uneven ; antennae black ; mouth 

 piceous. Thorax closely punctured, slightly wider than Ioiilz", a trifle 

 narrower in front ; lateral margins much rounded, posterior angles 

 obtuse. Elytra coarsely punctured ; humeri prominent, well clothed 

 with a short gray pubescence ; slightly wider behind the middle, tip 

 obtusely rounded ; beneath, minutely punctured, moderately clothed 

 with gray pubescence. Legs piceous. Length yL of an inch. 



Pedilus cyanipennis, u. sp. 

 Body black ; antennae dark yellow ; elytra dark blue ; tarsi light 

 yellow. 



