392 WILLIAM G. DIETZ, M.D, 



well impressed stria?, strongly and approximately punctured, interspaces unequal, 

 alternately wider and more prominent. Length 2.7-3.0 mm. ; 0.11-0.12 incli. 

 % . Last ventral segment with longitudinal, deeply impressed fovea. 



Hab. — Middle, Southern and Western States. 



C]^E]»IO«Oi\US Lee. 



This genns was establislied by Dr. LeConte on a species supposed 

 by him to be identical with the European Geliodes epllohii Payk., 

 an insect to which it bears but the most superficial resemblance ; a 

 curious circumstance is the fact that the author had the true C epilohii 

 before him, but failing to recognize it, described it as C. cruralls. 

 The beak is rather stout, feebly curved and slightly widened toward 

 the apex, the scrobes expanding posteriorly, their upper margin di- 

 rected against the middle of the eye, antennae rather stout, funicle 

 7-jointed, joints 1-2 elongate, 3-4 shorter, ecpial, -5-7 subtransverse, 

 club large, the first joining forming more than one-half its mass, 

 inserted two-fifths from the apex ( S ), or at the middle ( $ ). Eyes 

 ovate, obtusely acuminate inferiorly, entirely lateral and widely 

 separated above ; front flattened, without elevated orbital margin ; 

 prothorax wider than long, rounded on the sides and constricted 

 behind the apical margin, basal margin straight each side, produced 

 at the middle ; scutel very small. Elytra wider at the base than 

 the prothorax, longer than wide ; pectoral canal deep, not extending 

 upon the metasternum ; mesosternal side-pieces wide, distinctly visible 

 from above ; second ventral segment shorter than the two following 

 combined, third segment narrowed at the sides, attaining the lateral 

 margin more narrowly in the male than in the female ; pygidium 

 convex, middle coxal cavities closed within, a trifle more widely 

 separated than the anterior; femora njutic, tibi?e flattened with a 

 large triangular tooth near the base, the external a})ical angle of the 

 anterior })air ])ro(luced into a toothed process similar to AcantJiosceli'', 

 articulating surface of middle and posterior tibite ascending with a 

 triangular tooth one-third above the apex, emarginate between this 

 and the subbasal tooth, tarsi with the third joint broadly bilobed, 

 fourth long and slender, claws long and slender, divergent and 

 armed with a short, acute tooth. 



One species. 



C liCCOnlei sp. n. PI. xii, fig. 2. — Stout, suhtrapezoidal, pitclry Mack, 

 densely clothed above with blackish scales intermixed with a short, whitish pu- 

 bescence, condensed in a cruciform scutellar spot and less defined, smaller spots 

 on the disc of the elytra. Beak subcarinate, punctured ; prothorax densely and 



