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underside densely and rather coarsely imnctured and more densely clothed with 

 elongate scales. Beak slender, one-half lonjrer than the prothorax, cylindricral, a 

 trille wider at the base, finely striate and jjiinctured in its basal half, subglabrons 

 towards the apex, antennje inserted just before the middle, slender, joints 14 of 

 funiele gradually shorter, first joint very robust in the male, and like the second 

 a little more elongate in the female, outer joints very short, club moderately 

 large, ovoidal. acuminate. Eyes entirely concealed in repose. Head densely 

 l)unctured, front with a flattened or impressed oval s])ace, limited each side by a 

 row of erect .scales, the space clothed with white scales; prothorax much wider 

 than long, rounded on the sides behind, profouiidly constricted in its anterior 

 third, lateral tubercles represented by an acute, longitudinal ridge, dorsal sulcus 

 entire, not well defined, base broadly emargiuate each side: scutel distinct, glab- 

 rous. Elytra one-third wider at the base than the prothorax, humeri oblique, 

 sides nearly straight for three-fourths their length,, then suddenly rounded to the 

 apex; declivity, and especially the posterior callus, with prominent, acute gran- 

 ules; striiE and punctures very fine, superficial, punctures remote, interspaces 

 wide, flattened, each with a row of setigerous punctures, setfe long, suberect, a 

 conspicuous scutellar s]>ot and less distinct spots on the disc of condensed white 

 scales; pygidium punctured, subcarinate in the male. Legs not slender, femora 

 subdavate, each armed with a large triangular tooth, tibiae moderately stout, a 

 little flattened, widened towards the apex, third joint of tarsi not broadly bilobed. 

 fourth long, claws simple. Length 2.2.') mm. ; 0.09 inch. 



% . Last ventral segment feebly impressed, tibial hooks distinct. 



^o6. — Montuna ; Elko, Nevada ; California. 



Three speeinions, Mr. Hike's and my own coll. The Nevada 

 specimen has the elytral strite coansc^r and dcepci', the elytral setie 

 are i)ale in two .specimen.--, blackish in the tiiird, the leos entirely 

 f'crrnoinous in one, rufo-piceous in a second and dark piceons in the 

 third specimen, thus showing again the futility of supcrticial char- 

 acters in the demarcation of species. 



V. riKlis Lee. PI. xiii, fig. 21. — Oblong, oval, piceous, legs rufous, abovi; very 

 thinly clothed with very small, pale brown, piliform scales, variegated on the 

 elytra with scattered* spots of pure white and a large scutellar spot of similar 

 scales on the base of the first and second interspaces and extending a little farther 

 on the second interepace than on the first, underside clothed with whitish scales. 

 Beak feebly curved, not slender, somewhat tapering from the base, striate ajid 

 l>unctured in its basal half, more finely punctured beyond ; antennaj slender, 

 inserted before the middle ( 9 ), first and second joints of funiele elongate, former 

 a little stouter, joints 3-4 shorter, outer joints a little wider, club large, ovoidal. 

 Eyes concealed in repose. Head coarsely punctured, each puncture bearing a 

 coarse, brownish hair, an impressed frontal line with white scrales ; prothorax 

 much wider than long,»rounded ou the sides behind, strongly narrowed in front 

 and deeply constricted behind the apical margin, latter elevated, lateral tuber- 

 (des represented by an acute oblique elevation, dorsal channel deep, with a few 

 pale scales, surface very coarsely and deeply punctured, each puncture bearing a 

 coarse hair; scutel distinct. Elytra subtrapezoidal. a little wider at the base than 

 ihe jn'othorax, humeri rounded, sides nearly straight, gi'adually narrowed l>ehind, 

 strongly rounded on the tij). stria? impressed. ]»unctured, each with a row of white 



TKANS. AM. KNT. SOf. XXIII. DKCEMBEK, I ^»b. 



