488 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



moderately broad, first and fourth joints longer, the latter of greater 

 length and more slender. 



Type. — P. crassipes, sp. nov. 



Paloedemera crassipes, sp. nov. 

 Plate 15, fig. 3-i. 



Body of heavy build. Head prominent, mandibles projecting. 

 Eye elliptical or nearly so, rather large. Antenna showing only the 

 four proximal joints, which are stout, the third shorter than the fourth. 

 Prothorax, in side view, not arched along the back, finely scabrous. 

 Elytron long, tip obtusely rounded, sculpture fine and scabrous, about 

 like that of the prothorax. Fore leg moderately stout, tibia straight, 

 tarsus not expanded, hind leg as described in the generic diagnosis. 

 Length, to elytral tip, 16.90 mm.; of elytron, 13 mm. 



Described from one specimen with counterpart. 



Type.— No. 2,685, 2,686 M. C. Z. Florissant, Col. (No. 1,000 

 and 1,001 S. H. Scudder Coll.). 



This assignment to the Oedemeridae must be taken with caution. 

 There is very little to go upon aside from the texture of the body and 

 the thickening of the hind femur. The latter character has chiefly 

 influenced my decision. While the family position must be considered 

 purely provisional, the insect seems sufficiently remarkable to deserve 

 a name. The hind femur is detached and at a slightly lower level in the 

 stone, but I think it belongs with the rest of the specimen. 



MORDELLIDAE. 



Tomoxia inundata, sp. nov. 



Plate 15, fig. 5. 



Preserved in profile. Form somewhat more than usually elongate. 

 Head small, antenna long and slender, about equal to the thoracic 

 height. Prothorax strongly arched. Elytra bluntly rounded at apex, 

 surface with very fine and weak indications of striae. Legs in a rather 

 hazy state of preservation and evidently somewhat shifted but the 

 hind pair is shown to be of normal form with long tarsi. Abdomen 



