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to the dilation nearly straight, gradually convergent to near apex, the 

 apical angles oblique, sides behind the dilation very suddenly and 

 strongly constricted, the dilation more remote from base, disk with a 

 feeble longitudinal impression at middle, remote from base and not 

 attaining the apex, surface more densely and deeply umbilicately 

 punctate; elytra more shining, punctures coarse and deep but less 

 sharply defined, not smaller nor wanting in a subsutural space behind 

 the middle, apices conjointly rounded, the sutural angle rectangular, 

 the entire insect clothed with denser, longer, coarser yellowish hairs, 

 most conspicuous on head and thorax, color and markings nearly as in 

 leucoplucum but the whitish median fascia is wanting and is replaced 

 by an irregular whitish area situate almost entirely before the middle. 

 Length 6.4 — 9.7 mm. 



Texas, three specimens. Type in collection of the Museum ; 

 cotvpe in collection of the author. 



The writer was at first inclined to believe this to be merely a 

 variety of Icucophceum, but closer examination reveals too many 

 points of structural difference to permit of its assignment to that 

 species. 



The coloration is practically the same as in leucophceum, but, 

 as noted above, the pale fascia is wanting and is replaced by an 

 indeterminate whitish space which is marked with several large 

 blackish spots, the markings are otherwise similar, but more suf- 

 fused in the present species ; in both the type and the cotype the 

 head has the vertex and the anterior margin of prothorax dull 

 testaceous, in the third specimen the entire head and prothorax 

 is dull testaceous, the peculiar sculpture gives to the elytra a gran- 

 ulose appearance. The elytra in this species are divergent from 

 the humeri, while the leucophmum the sides at basal fourth are 

 parallel and the elytra are equal to more than three times the 

 length of thorax, while in granulosum they are but slightly more 

 than twice as long as the thorax. 



53. Pelonium fasciatum Lee. Cal. 

 54. Pelonium mixtum Lee. Ohio.; Tex. 



55. Pelonium oculatum Say. Pa. 

 56. Orthopleura damicornis Fabr. Mo. 

 One of the specimens shows quite plainly the testaceous post- 

 median fascia of the color variety pcunsylvamca Chevr., another 

 has but a slight trace of this fascia near the flanks. 



