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founded upon a single species which may be briefly described 

 as follows : — 



Body parallel, depressed, rather shioins, black, the elytra bright red; legs 

 pale, the antfiiaae blackish, gradually testaceous basally; ioteguments 

 coarsely and not strongly micro-reticulate, the elytra very feebly so, 

 the abdomen finely and obsoletely transversely strigilato-reticulate ; 

 punctures fine and sparse but distinct, rather larger, more close-set and 

 somewhat feebly impressed on the elytra, fine and somewhat sparse on 

 the abdomen, except the basal region of all the tergites which is im- 

 punctate; pubescence short and inconspicuous but wiih many longer 

 erect and bristling setae along the sides; head rather longer than 

 wide, the sides behind the eyes evenly and strongly arcuate to the neck, 

 slightly widest behind the eyes; antennae aitaioiug the middle of the 

 elytra, gradually, strongly iacrassate distally. the subaplcal joints dis- 

 tinctly transverse, the eleventh obtusely pointed and almost as long as 

 the preceding three combined; prothorax only very slightly wider than 

 the head and about a fourth wider than long, the sides parallel and 

 feebly arcuate; base broadly rounded; surface extremely finely and 

 feebly impressed along the median line from apex nearly to the base; 

 elytra transverse, rather distinctly wider than the proLhorax but not 

 quite as long, the suture four- fifths as long as the median line, the 

 humeri scarcely exposed, the basal concavity infumate; abdomen paral- 

 lel and straight at the sides, slightly narrower than the elytra. Length 

 3.5 mm.; width 0.81 mm. Arizona (Santa RitaMts.),— H. F. Wickham. 



wickhami n. sp. 



The sixth tergite is truncate at tip in the unique type, with 

 the edge even, and the sex of this specimen is not clearly de- 

 terminable. The infra-lateral carina of the head in this 

 genus is feebler than usual, becoming almost obsolete an- 

 teriorly. 



Kheochara Rey. 



This genus is very isolated, differing greatly from any 

 other with feebly inflexed hypomera, in the dense sculp- 

 ture of the abdomen and in the apically narrowed prothorax. 

 The body in Rheochara is small in size, normally convex, 

 with transverse subconical prothorax, very broad front be- 

 tween the antennae and moderately slender hind tarsi, having 

 the basal joint as long as the next two combined. The 

 punctures of the head and pronotum are evenly distributed, 

 small but strongly annular in form, those of the elytra more 

 impressed, coarser and transversely subasperate, while on 



