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Colorado (Garland). Mr. E. A. Schwarz. 



A small species, closely allied to rvjicornis Lee, but differing in 

 its sparser punctuation and rather shorter, more robust antennae. 

 The h3'pomera are feebly concave, two-fifths as wide as the distance 

 thence to the coxte, the sutures fine but distinct. The coxal fissures 

 are long and very widely open. 



B. laiigllidlis n. sp. — Slender, snbparallel, black ; elytra piceous black ; 

 legs throughout testaceous ; aiitennse black, two basal joints paler ; head and 

 pronotum feebly shining, rather coarsely granulose ; elytra and abdomen 

 polished, the latter rather coarsely reticulate, nioi'e strongly so toward base, 

 not more finely toward apex. Htad quite distinctly narrower than the pro- 

 thorax ; eyes moderate ; surface scarcely perceptibly convex, neither tul)ercu- 

 late nor foveate ; antennal prominences feeble ; epistomal suture very tine, 

 not impressed ; antennse rather short ; second joint more robust, nearly as 

 long as the next two together, three to six subequal in width, decreasing in 

 length, the latter transverse and about one-half as long as the former, seven 

 to ten strongly transverse, the former not very abruptly wider than the sixth, 

 the latter nearly twice as wide as long. Prothorax very slightly narrower than 

 the base of the elytra, one-third wider than long ; sides in apical three-fifths 

 parallel and feebly arcuate, thence broadly rounded, convergent and feebly 

 arcuate to the basal angles, which are obtuse, not appreciably rounded and 

 very feebly prominent ; lateral angles obsolete, apical nearly right and ex- 

 tremely narrowly rounded ; apex very feebly arcuate, one-third wider than the 

 base, the latter truncate ; disk rather finely and sparsely punctate ; median 

 groove very fine but deep and distinct ; pubescence long, sparse and flavate. 

 Elytra nearly as long as wide, one-fourth wider and one-half longer than the 

 prothorax ; sides feebly arcuate toward apex ; disk not impressed at base, 

 somewhat coarsely and feebly punctate ; punctures impressed, distant by 

 rather more than their own widths ; pubescence cinereous, rather short, fine 

 and sparse. Abdomen slightly narrower than the elytra, finely, very sparsely 

 punctate, very finely sparsely punctate beneath. Length 3.8 mm. 



Oregon (Huntington). Mr. H. F. Wickham. 



This is a rather slender species, allied to rvficornis Lee, but 

 distinguished by its very much sparser pronotal punctuation, black 

 antennae, and less oyjaque lustre. 



The hypomera are very narrow, distinctly less than one-half as 

 wide as the distance thence to the cox®, and rather deeply concave, 

 the sutures being feeble and not very distinct. The coxal fissures 

 are very long and widely open. The mentum is broadly, feebly 

 concave, coarsely reticulate, polished and furnished along the apical 

 margin with a short flat polished non-reticulate hypoglottis, sepa- 

 rated by a fine suture. 



In rvficornis Lee. the abdomen beneath is much more densely 



