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Head scarceh' ^yidcr than the thoracic apex, but with the sides of the thorax 

 if produced forward, intersecting the e3'es; front nioderatelj- punctate; ej-es 

 separated in the male by twice the length of the basal antennal joint or slightly 

 more, and by about two and three-fourths times the length of the basal joint 

 in the female. Antennae rather short, black, brownish yellow toward the 

 l>ase, the basal joint black, second joint rufo-piceous, tenth about two and one- 

 half times as long as wide in the male, and but little more than twice as long 

 as wide in the female. 



Prothorax moderately transverse*, rather strongly arcuately narrowed in 

 front, surface closely, moderately coarsely, somewhat unevenly punctate, with 

 scattered small shghtly elevated smooth areas; lateral margins not smoother. 



Elijtm rather densely punctate, punctures but little larger than those of the 

 jirothorax, broadly confused on the disk, serially or subscrially arranged at the 

 rear and sides, striae three, four, seven and eight usually traceable more or less 

 completely, lateral interspace punctate; shield small but distinctly elevated, 

 black or j-ellow. 



Pygidium, body beneath, and legs black. 



Length 2.75 to 3 mm.; width 1.6 to 1.8 mm. 



Distribution. — Florida: Enterprise, type d", Jacksonxille (Xat. Mus. Coll.) 

 (\'an Duzee — Wickham Coll.); Sanfordville (\Mckham Coll.); Ormond and 

 Atlantic Beach CNlrs. Slosson — Liebeck Coll.); Key West (Leng Coll.). 

 Georgia: (Leng Coll.) (Morrison — in Snow Coll.). Alabama: Langdale, Cham- 

 bers Co. (H. H. Smith— Xat. Mus. Coll.j; '"Ala" (Leng Coll.). 



This species has been confused with carbonarius in a number of 

 collections, but may be easily distinguished by the coarser, less 

 even prothoracic punctuation, \vhich is but little finer than that 

 of the elytra. It is really more closely allied to ato))2an'us and 

 vestigialis, black examples of the latter being strikingly similar 

 and separable only by their denser more comi^letely confused 

 elytral punctuation. \'ery dark feebly maculate specimens of 

 atoDxiriii.s are much like those examples of stijgicus that are not 

 totally l)lack. but they may be separated by careful attention to 

 the characters as tabulated in the remarks under (itoniartus. 



99. Paehybrachys lachrymosus new species 



Black, strongly alutaccous and dull, front willi faint obscure 

 rufo-testaceous marks between the eyes in the male, in which sex 

 the apical margin of the prothorax, and basal margin of the elytra 

 in part, are very narrowly of the same color; eyes separated in the 

 male Ijy twice, and in the female by three times the length of the 

 basal antennal joint; front without ocular lines, elytra with only 

 the submarginal stria entire, front claws of male not aii]irecial)ly 

 larger than the others. Ave. length 2.9 mm. Arizona. 



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