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Body sqiiamigerous, robust. Rostrum short, but little longer than 

 head, almost as broad as long, trisulcate; nasal plate triangular, 

 glabrous; scrobes visible from above at apex, strongly arcuate passing 

 beneath eyes. Mentum large, almost circular, concave. Antennae 

 short; funicle 7-jointed, slightly longer than scape; club ovate. 

 Head deeply transversely depressed between eyes, but with a strong 

 superocular ridge laterally bounding the depression. Head with 

 two smaller foveiform depressions behind the large transverse 

 impression. Prothorax transverse with sides arcuate. Elytra globu- 

 lar, with moderate humeral angles; tenth elytral striae confluent at 

 basal third with the ninth. Front coxae contiguous; middle coxae 

 narrowly separated; hind coxae widely separated. Legs short; 

 femora mutic; articular surface of hind tibiae oblique, glabrous, but 

 with the corbels practically terminal or cavernous; tibiae unguiculate; 

 third tarsal joint broadly bilobed; claws separate. Meso- and 

 meta- thorax short. Mesosternal sidepieces uneven. Intercoxal 

 process of abdomen large, quadrate. Abdominal sutures straight; 

 abdomen strongly inclosed by elytra. 



GLAPHYROMETOPUS ORNITHODORUS, new species. 



Described from five more or less perfect specimens taken from the 

 stomach of a meadow lark, Sturnella magna negleda, which was shot 

 at Navasota, Texas, December 12, 1907 in an open prairie by Mr. 

 V. Bailey. (Biological Survey, No. 57705.) The unusual appearance 

 of this insect has led me to call it ornithodorus, meaning a gift from 

 the birds. 



Length 4.5-5 mm., breadth 2.2-3 mm. Black; robust, strongly 

 sculptured, densely scaly. Vestiture brownish cinereous with white 

 fasciae. Beak densely scaly, except near tip; scales striate, brownish 

 with a metallic luster. Nasal plate triangular glabrous, apically 

 notched, laterally rimmed. A short carina leads from the apex of 

 this plate but soon passes into a median sulcus which is very deep 

 and extends to the transverse depression of the front. The two lat- 

 eral sulci begin even with this and also terminate in the frontal depres- 

 sion. The areas between these sulci are strongly convex. Scrobes 

 becoming somewhat wider on sides, terminated at lower edges of 

 eyes. Antennal scape squamose, not passing the eyes ; funicular joints 

 all short, but the first two are longer than wide, the remainder be- 

 coming gradually more transverse; club indistinctly annulate; funicle 

 and club pubescent. Head with strong transverse frontal impression, 

 almost as long as the eyes but separated from them by a strong su- 

 perocular ridge. Occiput with two foveiform impressions; cephahc 

 scales strongly metallic. 



Prothorax apically truncate, basally convex, laterally strongly 

 arcuate; transverse; strongly, deeply and irregularly punctate, with 



