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punctured and scaly, scales grayish white; prothorax wider than long, fully one- 

 third wider at the base than at the apex, strongly rounded on the sides, broadly 

 and strongly constricted at the apex, apical margin elevated, ocular lobes feeble, 

 base broadly emarginate each side, lateral tubercles distinct, obtuse, channel en- 

 tire, more deeply impressed at the base, and in form of a fovea in front, a longi- 

 tudinal impressioji each side in front of the lateral tubercle, disc rather coarsely 

 l>unctured and clothed with coarse, gray pubescence, paler on the sides and along 

 the dorsal channel ; scutel scarcely visible. Elytra about one-fourth wider at the 

 base than the prothorax, a little longer than wide and very little narrowed on 

 the sides for three-fourths their length, then rajiidly rounded to the apex, strise 

 deep, wide, closely punctured, each puncture bearing an elongate, white scale, 

 interspaces little wider than the striai, flattened, rugose, small scales suberect and 

 'arranged in one or two rows on each intei'space, the large white scales condensed 

 in an ill-defined scutellar spot and extending in a line along the sutural inter- 

 space, also on the side towards the apex; summit of the declivity with small, 

 acute granules: tibise slender, parallel, tarsi with the first two-joints elongate, 

 third joint hilobed. rather short, fourth shorter than the two jireceding joints 

 and projecting a trifle more than the length of the third, claws armed with an 

 acute basal tooth. Length ^.To mm.; 0.11 incli. 



Hab. — Pennsylvania. 



A female specimen in Dr. Horn's collection closely related to the 

 following species. 



C iinmulns n. sp. — Oblong oval, dark piceous, above clothed with brownish 

 pubescence, a sutural vitta and some scattered scales, white, underside densely 

 clothed with dirty gray scales. Beak long and slender, squamous at the base- 

 finely striate and punctured in its basal half, shining and more remotely punc- 

 tulate toward the apex ; antennje inserted two-fifths from the base ( % ), slender, 

 outer joints of funicle scarcely wider, club large, elongate, acuminate. Eyes not 

 completely concealed in repose. Head convex, obscurely sulcate, front imi)ressed, 

 densely punctured and scaly: i)rothorax more than one-half wider than long and 

 nearly two-fifths wider at the base than at the apex, strongly rounded on the 

 sides and constricted at the apex, apical margin elevated, ocular lobes di.stiuct_ 

 ])rominent, lateral tubercles small, acute, dorsal channel less distinct at the mid- 

 dle, disc coarsely and closely jjunctured, coarsely pubescent, paler on the sides 

 and along the doi"Siil sulcus, base slightly emarginate each side; scutel extremely 

 minute. Elytra about one-fourth wider at the base than the prothorax, feebly 

 rounded on the sides and gradually narrowed posteriorly, striaj and )>unctures 

 fine, intersprces wide, flat, rugose, summit of the declivity strongly muricate, a 

 short basal line on the second interspace, of white scales, similar scales aggre- 

 gated along the base and on the sides towards the apex ; pygidium densely scaly. 

 Legs long and slender, femora subdavate, tibia" subparallel, tarsi slender, second 

 and third joints together longer than the fourth, the latter projects a little more 

 than the length of the third joint which is not broadly bilobed, claws with an 

 acute basal tooth. Length 2.2,^ mm.; 0.09 inch. 



% . Fovea of last venti-al segment confined to the apical half, an obtuse tubercle 

 each side. 



Hah. —Texas. 



A single male specimen, also in Dr. Horn's coll. Very closely 



TKANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIII. DECEMBER. 1896. 



