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S penultimate dorsal segment of abdomen with a minute carina. 



Much smaller and narrower than the preceding, with a fine yellowish- 

 grey pubescence. Antennae scarcely as long as the head and thorax, 

 somewhat thickened towards the apex, the base and terminal joint red- 

 dish, the middle joints brownish. Head narrower than the thorax, 

 reddish-brown, very closely and extremely finely punctured ; mouth 

 yellow. Thorax reddish-brown, shorter than broad, truncate and of 

 equal width anteriorly and posteriorly, the sides gently rounded, the 

 posterior angles almost rectangular, the upper surface flatly elevated, 

 extremely finely and closely punctured; in front of the scutellum there 

 is a scarcely perceptible trace of a depression. Elytra as broad as the 

 thorax and but little longer, slightly divergent at the posterior angles, 

 very closely punctured, reddish-brown. Abdomen ecpually broad, some- 

 what paler reddish-brown than the anterior part of the body, less thickly 

 and finely punctured, and rather more shining; fourth segment black- 

 ish-brown. Legs reddish-yellow. 



The penultimate abdominal segment of the % has a very slight carina. 



I fab. — Georgia. — Sachse. 



'B' 



B. — Hind tarsi with the first joint decidedly longer than the second. 

 * Maxillae with inner lobe ciliate internally with small spines. 

 1. Labial palpi short, 2-jointed. 



Genus 6.— PLACUSA. Erich. 

 Placusa despecta. Erich. 



Placusa despecta, Erich. Staph, p. 197. 5. 



Black; legs testaceous; elytra fuscous; thorax as broad as the elytra, 

 transversely convex, posterior angles obtuse. Length J line. 



Hab. — Carolina. 



Black, rather shining, clothed with a fine greyish pubescence. An- 

 tennae a little shorter than the head and thorax, somewhat thickened 

 towards the apex ; second joint rather thick, the third a little shorter 

 than the second and much more slender, obconic, joints 4 — 10 a little 

 thickened, slightly shorter than thick, the terminal joint rather large, 

 the two preceding joints larger, ovate, apex obtuse, slightly pilose; 

 black, the base piceous. Head much narrower than the thorax, closely 

 and very finely punctured; front a little depressed; mouth piceous. 

 Thorax at base as broad as the elytra, one-half shorter than broad, 

 slightly narrowed anteriorly, sides rounded, apex truncate, anterior an- 

 gles obtuse, somewhat rounded, deflexed; base rather broadly rounded, 

 posterior angles somewhat sinuate, obtuse, not prominent; a little con- 

 vex transversely, closely and very finely punctured. Elytra a little 

 longer than the thorax, apex and exterior angles somewhat sinuate. 



