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ferent from any known to me.* My on\y reason for adhering 

 provisionally to the present identification, is that ra}^ single 

 representative is a male; in the female the prothorax is sometimes 

 proportionally distinctl}^ smaller than in the male. 



7. S. corticalis Lee. — Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., \, p. 154; Proe. 

 Acad., Phila., 1852, p. 102 (Anthicus). 



Very stout, convex, polished throughout, dark brown in color; 

 legs and antennte paler, the latter infascate at apex; pubes- 

 cence fine and not very dense, the longer hairs of the eljtra un- 

 usually long, suberect and bristling. Head transverse, convex, 

 truncate, unimpressed, minutely and sparsely punctulate, the 

 eyes large and prominent ; antennte a little longer than the head 

 and prothorax, rather thick at apex. Prothorax distinctly nar- 

 rower than the head, almost as long as wide, minutely and re- 

 m^otel}' punctate ; sides prominent and rounded anteriorly, sinuate 

 in basal two-thirds, the base margined and almost as wide as the 

 disk. Elytra stout, two-thirds to scarcely more than one-half 

 longer than wide, distinctly more than twice as wide as the pro- 

 tliorax in the male, two and one-half times in the female, very ob- 

 tusely but evenly rounded at apex, coarsely and sparsely but some- 

 what feebly punctate. Length 2.25-2.8 mm.; width 0.8-1.15 mm. 



California (Yuma). This species is quite distinct from any 

 other in its highly polished, very minutely and remotely punctate 

 pronotum and obese form. The male has the anterior trochanters 

 prolonged behind in a verj' long spiniform process, the interme- 

 diate in a shorter and more lamelliform process, with both the 

 corresponding tibise bent inwardly toward apex The fifth ven- 

 tral unmodified, moderate in length and parabolically rounded be- 

 hind throughout, the copulatorj^ sheath slender, gradually tapering 

 to a fine point, flat, not modified dorsally, excavated beneath and 

 slightly turned upward near its middle when viewed in profile. 

 I obtained three specimens at the locality indicated. 



8. S. festiiiaiis n.sp. — Moderately stout, convex, shining, the head and 

 pronotum alutaeeous, pale brownish-testaceous, the elytral suture and anten- 

 nal apex slightly infuscate; pubescence pale and coarse, not very dense, mod- 

 erate in length, the longer hairs of the elytra coarse and inclined. Head 

 transverse, convex, finely and feebly but densely punctate, except toward base, 



* It seems probable that in the case of this species and ftilripcs, the author 

 has mistaken the subbasal marginal line for the true base of the prothorax. 



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