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blackish-piceous, the prothorax but slightly paler; elytra with a piceous 

 scutellar cloud; abdomen rufescent at tip, the legs and antennae pale; 

 head larger, coarsely and rather less sparsely punctate, parallel, the 

 basal angles moderately rounded ; eyes at twice their length from the 

 base ; antennae rather slender, nearly half as long as the body, feebly 

 incrassate distally, the medial joints two-thirds longer than wide; pro- 

 thorax elongate, scarcely visibly wider than the head, subparallel, all 

 the angles well rounded, the punctures fine, sparse, more distinct and 

 rather unevenly crowded in the feebly impressed series along the medial 

 smooth area; elytra elongate, the sides straight and very feebly diverg- 

 ent, about a fourth wider and scarcely a third longer than the prothorax, 

 punctured nearly as in ambigua; abdomen parallel, subequal in width 

 to the elytra, finely but strongly, densely punctulate and rather dull. 

 Male unknown; female with the sixth ventral very broadly rounded and 

 obtuseattip. Length 4.3 mm.; width 0.68 mm. Indiana? (Cab. Levette). 



iutegra n. sp. 

 Form slender and parallel, normally convex, larger than the two preceding, 

 pale and bright testaceous in color,the head and abdomen black or slightly 

 piceous, the latter rufescent at tip ; head very sparsely, rather coarsely 

 punctate, parallel, the basal angles rather well rounded ; eyes at slightly 

 less than twice their own length from the base; antennae moderately long 

 and slender, only just visibly incrassate, the medial joints three-fourths 

 longer than wide ; neck one-half as wide as the head ; prothorax oblong, 

 parallel, the sides straight, all the angles rounded, distinctly elongate 

 and slightly wider than the head, the punctures rather small but strong, 

 only moderately sparse, not larger and only indistinctly seriate along 

 the median smooth space ; elytra slightly elongate, parallel and straight 

 at the sides, a third wider and one-fourth longer than the prothorax, 

 the punctures fine but distinct, rather close-set in very feebly impressed 

 narrow series ; impression along the sutural bead narrow but deep and 

 conspicuous; abdomen subparallel, narrower than the elytra, finely, 

 densely punctulate though slightly shining. Male unknown; female with 

 the sixth ventral broadly rounded at tip. Length 5.2 mm.; width 0.78 

 mm. North Carolina (Asheville) angustnla n. sp. 



The eccentricity and asymmetry of the secondary male sex- 

 ual modifications seems to be a reality in many species of this 

 genus, for it is unlikely that abnormalities of this kind would 

 occur with such uniformity and with such constancy of charac- 

 ter. In this connection the reader is referred to a pronounced 

 asymmetry in the secondary sexual characters of Palaminus, 

 alluded to some years ago by the writer. There are four quite 

 distinct types of male sexual characters in Lathrobiella : first 

 the usual triangular notch of the ventralis and collaris groups, 

 also appearing in aemula and probably merens; second the 

 more strongly marked modifications characterizing modesta — 



