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rather short and somewhat coarse, sparse but cinereous and distinct. Head 

 two-thirds as wide as the prothorax, feebly reticulate, finely, sparsely punc- 

 tate, deeply impressed along the median line near the base, the anterior im- 

 pressions feeble ; epistoma and labrum piceous-black, short, the latter arcuato- 

 truncate; eyes moderately large, not prominent; antennie rather stout, dis- 

 tinctly incrassate and clothed with short, erect bristling setse near the apex, 

 the fifth joint distinctly dilated, tenth somewhat transverse. Pr!)ihorax trans- 

 versely oval, barely one-half wider than long, the sides parallel and strongly, 

 evenly arcuate; apex broadly arcuato-truncate, the angles rounded; base feebly 

 arcuate, the angles very obtuse but only slightly rounded; disk coarsely 

 reticulate, strongly so toward the apex and becoming slightly scabrous near 

 the sides; punctures sparse, rather small: marginal cilia long. Eli/tra oblong, 

 three-fifths longer than A\ide, slightly though distinct^' wider than the pro- 

 thorax, parallel and straight at the sides, broadly, evenly parabolic in apical 

 third; humeral callosities rather small and nanowlj' rounded; punctures fine, 

 feeljle and sparse, the interspaces feebly reticulate. Le/ji^ moderately long, the 

 posterior femora somewhat stout. Length 2.5 mm.; width 0.95 mm. 



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The single male before me is but slightl}' modified at the ab- 

 dominal vertex, the fifth segment being evenl}' truncate at tip 

 and otherwise normal. The species is quite distinct, and will be 

 readily known by its convex, sparsely' pubescent surface, bicol- 

 ored legs and other features. 



17. T. femoralis n. sp. — Elongate-oval, strongly convex, shining, black, 

 ■without seneous lustre, the legs rufo-ferruginous ^\ith the femora black; an- 

 tenna? piceo-testaceous, the two basal and two or three apical joints slightly 

 blackish; pubescence very short, rather coarse, sparse and cinereous. Head 

 less than two-thirds as wide as the prothorax; longitudinally convex, reticu- 

 late, not medially impressed toward base, finely and sparsely punctate, the an- 

 terior impressions feeble; epistoma very .short with a fiue pale and coriaceous 

 apical margin; labrum unusuallj' small, short, pale at the margins, the apex 

 truncate toward the middle; eyes large but not prominent; antennse moderate 

 in length, rather stout, the outer joints incrassate and hispid with short erect 

 seta", tenth decidedly transverse. Profhora.r transversely oval, scjmewhat more 

 than one-half wider than long, the sides parallel and strongly, evenly arcuate; 

 angles obtuse and rounded; base and apex broadly arcuate, the latter slightly 

 the less strongly so; disk reticulate, finely, sparsely punctate, more strongly 

 so and with the surface slightly scabrous and less shining toward the sides. 

 Elytra short, not quite one-half longer than wide, only slightly \A'ider than 

 the prothorax, gradually dehiscent behind, parallel, evenly .rounded at apex, 

 the humeri only very feebly tumid; punctures coarse, sparse, deep and im- 

 pressed. Legs rather long, the femora polished, with the extreme tii)s rufous. 

 Length 2.35 mm. ; width 0.9 mm. 



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