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riegated above with gniyisli white. Beak curved, nioderutcly robust, puiic- 

 tiired and scaly from base to the iusertion of the anteuuse, shiniiio; toward tiie 

 apex in the male, slender, longer than head and jirothorax and more shining in 

 the female, a basal tuft of yellowish scales each side of the base quite marked, 

 incision pronounced. Antennae as in the preceding species, but outer joints of 

 funicle a little more widened, inserted two-fifths from the apex in the male and 

 a trifle behind the middle in the female. Head opaque, finely rugulose, front 

 punctured and scaly. Prothorax less than one-half wider than long, scarcely 

 more than one-fourth wider at the base than at the apex, latter scarcelj' con- 

 stricted, not strongly rounded on the sides, punctures rather small and not very 

 close, concealed by the almost unicolorous, closely adherent scales intermixed 

 with sliort, erect brownish hairs, giving the surface a rather even, smooth ap- 

 pearance, a few paler scales along the lateral margin, two white spots each side 

 of the disc, median vitta almost obsolete. Scutel very small, rounded, glabrous. 

 Elytra one-third wider at the base than the prothorax and about one-half wider 

 than long, humeri prominent, sides straight, parallel for one-half their length, 

 then broadly rounded to the apex; strife fine, punctures small, quite remote and 

 (liUicult to discern with the scales intact, interstitial setse very fine, short and 

 scarcely visible, a white line on the basal fifth of the third and seventh inter- 

 spaces, another on the second and third fifths of the fifth interspace, a subtrans- 

 verse line one-fourth from the base connecting the longitudinal lines; besides 

 these there are some irregular discal spots. Prosternum deeply euiarginate with 

 not very distinct antecoxal ridges. Legs as in the preceding species; claws con- 

 nate for one-third their length. Length 2.75— 3.0 mm. ; 0.11— 0.12 inch. Plate 

 viii, fig. 22. 



Hah. — District of ('oluinbia. 



Two males and one female sjjecinien in Mr. Ulke's eollectioii. A 

 distinct species, liesemhles in size and form eornknlatHH, but difii'rs 

 from that species by its distinctly mottled upper surface, diti'crcntly 

 shaped scales and less coarsely punctured prothorax. 



^». calif oriiic*ii»>i n. sp. — Elongate-oval, dark piceous, legs reddish, densely 

 clothed with large, broadly oval, yellowish gray or ochreous scales, more dense 

 on the underside than above. Beak very similar to that of the preceding spe- 

 cies, a trifle stouter, that of the female somewhat thickened from base to the 

 insertion of the antennae, more coarsely punctured and densely scaly, with sub- 

 erect piliform scales in the male. Antennaj inserted at the middle ( % ), or a 

 little behind the middle ( 9 ), first joint of funicle not very stout, second nearly 

 twice the length of the third. Head as usual. Prothorax one-half wider than 

 long, one-fourth wider at the base than at the apex, the latter broadly and dis 

 tinctly constricted, broadly rounded on the sides, very slightl.y narrowed toward 

 the base, surface densely, coarsely and subconfluently punctured, punctures en- 

 tirely concealed by the scaly vestiture, latter intermixed with erect, daviform 

 setfe. Scutel very small, glabrous. Elytra one-third wider at the base than the 

 prothorax and a little more than one-half longer than wide; sides straight and 

 parallel for one-half their length, then broadly rounded to the apax ; strife fine, 

 punctures small, remote, concealed by the scales, interspaces flat, feebly convex 

 posteriorly, and where deprived of scales, finely rugose, shining, each witli a row 

 of remote punctures, setse procnnibent. whitish, scarcely visible, a whitish basal 



TRANS AM. KNT. .'<OC. XXI. JUNE, 1894. 



