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probal)ly more abundant than hitherto supposed, their secluded 

 habits and, in many cases at least, rather restricted, habitat, render- 

 ing it probable that several additional ones will be discovered by 

 future collectors. The five species before me may be thus distin- 

 o-uished : — 



Elytral intervals equal in convexity throughout. 



Lateral fimbrije of the prothorax rather long and very dense, conspicuous ; 

 eyes smaller, the upper lobes separated by from six to seven times their 

 own width. 

 Elytral striae rather strongly impressed, the intervals distinctly convex. 



obliquiis 



Elytral striae scarcely at all impressed, the intervals flat...fliiibriatlis 



Lateral fimbriae very inconspicuous, composed of very short and not very 



close-set setae ; eyes larger, separated by from four to five times their 



own width. 



Strongly convex, moderately elongate and more broadly, evenly elliptical. 



iiiai'itiiiius 

 Moderately convex, elongate and oblong-oval ; size larger. 



eloiigattiliis 

 Alternate intervals of the elytra wider, more convex and more densely pubes- 

 cent ; intervals throughout nincli more densely rugulose and punctate ; form 

 more oblong and parallel crassilS 



\]. o1)liquiIS Lee. — Blapstinns obliq. : New Species Col., 1866, p. 117. — 

 Elliptical, strongly convex, piceous throughout ; legs and antennae concolorous ; 

 integuments shining, the pubescence rather short and coarse, moderately 

 dense, evenly distributed, pale flavate and conspicuous. Head moderately 

 transverse, very densely, deeply punctate ; sides very feebly convergent ante- 

 riorly from the narrowly rounded basal angles; epistoma strongly sinuate ; 

 upper lobe of eyes moderate, longer than wide ; antennje in length subequal 

 to the prothorax, rather slender, last three joints very slightly wider, third 

 more tlian twice as long as wide, much shorter than the next two, eleventh 

 wider than long, narrowly truncate at apex, fully as wide as the tenth. Pro- 

 tliorar twice as wide as the head and very nearly twice as wide as long ; apex 

 scarcely three-fourths as wide as the base, rather strongly emarginate in 

 circular arc, the angles not notably rounded ; base transverse, broadly, feebly 

 sinuate in lateral third ; basal angles right, not rounded ; sides evenly and 

 very feebly arcuate throughout ; disk widest at base, rather finely, deeply and 

 densely punctate tlironghout, the punctures generally separated by from once 

 to twice their own diameters. Scutelluui polislied. Klijtra in the middle 

 distinctly wider tlian tlie prothorax, about three times as long; sides evenly 

 arcuate, continuous with those of the prothorax ; disk rather coarsely striate, 

 the striae distinctly and rather strongly impressed, approximately and some- 

 what coarsely punctured ; intervals feebly evenly and equally convex through- 

 out tlie width, equally punctate and pubescent, the punctures rather coarse 



