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C liirticollis n. sp.— Obloiif; oval, black, elytra with a faint chalyheous 

 lustre, pruthurax clothed above with loii}?, coarse jnibesceiice. elytra very finely 

 imboscent, underside clothed with small, piliforni scales. Beak Ion}; and slender, 

 curved, striate and punctured from the base to the insertion of the antennje. 

 punctulate and shining toward the apex ; antenna; inserted two-fiftlis from the 

 apex ( 'J, ), or at the middle (9), funicle 7-jointed, joints 1-2 longer, following 

 joints gradually shorter, club ovidal. Head convex, closely punctured, clothed 

 with elongate, pale yellowish scales ; prothorax one-half wider than long, one- 

 third wider at the base than at the apex, rounded on the sides, feebly constricted 

 at the ai)ex when seen from above, anterior half transverselj* impressed, inipres- 

 siou sharply limited posteriorly, anterior margin with two very small, but acute 

 and rather remote cusjjs, lateral tubercles small, acute, dorsal channel entire and 

 extending through the anterior transverse impression, ocular lobes well developed, 

 sides and basal half coarsely and closely jjunctured, more finely punctured on the 

 anterior half, transverse impression, dorsal sulcus and a line each side, clothed 

 with long, coarse, pale yellowish pubescence ; scutel very minute. Elytra nearly 

 one-third wider at the base than the prothorax, humeri somewhat prominent, 

 gradually narrowed posteriorly, sides broadly rounded, posterior callus feeble, 

 strite well defined, sujierficial, punctures very small, not closelj' approximate' 

 iutei-spaces flattened about twice as wide as the strife, finely rugose; underside 

 flnely punctured. Legs long and slender, femora armed with a large and very 

 acute tooth, tibite subparallel, gradually widened to the apex, tarsi slender, 

 slightly compressed, third joint not broadly bilobed, fourth a little shorter than 

 the two preceding joints together, claws simple. Length 2.5 mm. ; 0.10 inch. 



% . Last ventral segment with deep and sharply defined transverse fovea, tibise 

 unguiculate. 



Hab. — Illinois, Wisconsin. 



ISIr. A. Bolter's and my own coll. A quite distinct species. 



V. armntns n. sp. — Oval, robust, entirely ferruginous, above nearly glalirous^ 

 shining, very sparsely clothed with a fine, scale-like i)ubescence, underside finely 

 and suiierticially punctured and (clothed with small, pale scales. Beak much 

 longer than the prothorax, curved, cyliiidric^il, slightly tapering toward the ajiex, 

 striate and punctured in its basal half, more shining and punctulate toward the 

 apex, antenme slender, testaceous, inserted a trille beyond the middle, funicle 

 G-jointed, joints 1-3 elongate, first joint longer, second and third equal, outer 

 joints short, club rather small, elongate acuminate. Head convex, densely and 

 coarsely punctured ; protiiorax wider than long, one-third wider at the base than 

 at the ai)ex, narrowed from the base, rounded on the sides, scarcely c(>nstri(-ted 

 on tlie sides, but deeply impressed behind the elevated apical margin, the latter 

 entire, lateral tubercles absent, dorsal channel obsolete, except a slight impression 

 at the base and at the apex, surface densely punctured, punctures moderate, basal 

 margin stniight each side, ocular lobes feeble ; scutel minute, glabrous. Elytra 

 scarc^ely longer than wide, ii little wider at the base than the prothorax, narrowed 

 behind, feebly rounded on the sides, striie impressi^d, wide, strongly and closely 

 l)unctureil, intei'spaces slightly convex, smooth and shining, each with a row of 

 very fine setigerous punctures, seta» erect, whitish, declivity acutely tuberculate- 

 especially on the fifth, sixth and seventh interspaces; pygidium very small ( 9 )> 

 visible only between the apices of the elytra ; anterior coxae scan-ely prominent, 

 antecoxal ridges very acute. Legs slender, femora armed with a small, acute 



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