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wider than the striae; striae not impressed, punctures rounded, dis- 

 tant at least their own diameter; each filled with a round, striate 

 scale; surface densely covered \vith overlapping reddish brown or 

 black scales ; alternate intervals with numerous golden striate squami- 

 form setae. Under sides densely clothed with dark reddish brown 

 scales and with numerous squamiform setae. ^letasternal side pieces 

 not visible. First ventral suture slightly arcuate; second segment 

 almost as long as the two following. Legs squamose sparsely setose 

 Avith lighter colored scales; femora clavate; tibiae mucronate, the 

 anterior minutely denticulate; corbels closed. 

 r?/pe.— Cat. No. 14643, U.S.Nat.Mus. 



NEOPANSCOPXJS, new subgenus. 



This subgenus is defined in the preceding table. The type is 

 sequalis Horn. 



PANSCOPUS (NEOPANSCOPUS) .EQUALIS Horn. 



Nocheles sequalis Horn, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 15, 1876, p. 55 

 Nocheles cinereus Horn, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 15, 1876, p. 55. 



Horn's tabular name does not agree with the name used in the 

 description, the latter being evidently the name intended. Material 

 is at hand from National Park, and Green River, Wyoming; Mon- 

 tana; Utah; Tonasket, Washington, and California. 



PANSCOPUS (NEOPANSCOPUS) .ffiQUALIS VESTITUS Casey. 



Nocheles restitus Casey. 



Two Nevada specimens are at hand labeled as Colonel Casey's spe- 

 cies, and answering the description, but it does not seem that they 

 merit more than varietal rank, if that. These specimens were for- 

 merly arranged by the %yriter under sequalis proper. 



PANSCOPUS (NEOPANSCOPUS) SQUAMIFRONS, new species. 



Described from a single specimen from Placer County, California, 

 June (Koebele). 



Length 7 mm.; width 2.5 mm. Piceous, densely covered with red- 

 dish piceous, and straw-colored striate scales, and spai-sely with red- 

 dish piceous and straw-colored setae. Beak longer than head, sides 

 parallel from eyes to alee, which are prominent; nasal plate very 

 poorly defined by an arcuate raised area, punctate, emargmate. 

 Head and beak strongly punctate, not carinate, densely squamose and 

 sparsely setose with mixed scales, but ^^'ith a light patch beliind the 

 ej^es. Scrobes deep, "sdsible from above, short and evanescent at a 

 distance from ej^es; scape short, densely squamose, not reaching 

 middle of eye; funicle short, setose and pubescent, the first two joints 

 only, elongate, others moniliform; club oval, about equal to the three 



