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not setose. Apex short, triangular, chitino-membranous and very 

 finely setose. 



Appendage short, rather broad and obtusely subtriangular, flat- 

 tened and partly concealed by the swollen superior margin of the 

 fossa, finely setose, with two or three longer seta3 at tip. Fossa trans- 

 ^erse, margins more or less swollen and very finely setose and without 

 conspicuous setae. 



Superior pudendal tnembrane reaching to about the middle third 

 of the dorsal plate and rather distantly longitudinally rugulose. 



Basal prominences moderately prominent laterally; submarginal 

 groove not visible from above. 



Ventrolateral surfaces. — Body moderately stout, rather strongly 

 convex and swollen in basal half and transversely concave before the 

 apices; surface glabrous, very finely punctulate and sparsely setose 

 in apical half, setae minute and fine. Submarginal groove small 

 beneath the feebly laterally prominent external margin of the dorsal 

 plate, and terminating at the external angle of the fossa. Inferior 

 margin of the apex continuous with the inferior margin of the fossa. 

 Internal margins of the valves contiguous in basal fourth. Genital 

 fissure long and rather broadly fusiform, w^ith basal half closed by 

 the inferior pudendal membrane. 



Habitat. — Texas (Cameron County, August, H. F. Wickham). 



Number of specimens studied, 2 (male and female). 



Sexitypes in Prof. Wickham's and my own collections. 



Type-locality. — Cameron County, Texas. 



Salient type-characters. — Somewhat opaque to feebl}^ shining, ely- 

 tra slightly ventricose. Thorax very moderately convex and evidently 

 transverse ; sides moderately arcuate and very slightly sinuate before 

 the base; apical angles small, simply acute to feebly dentiform; basal 

 angles obtuse. Elytra with striae of rather coarse, closely placed 

 punctures, intervals feebly convex, distinctly convex on the apical 

 declivity. Some of the striae duplicated. Intervals with a single 

 series of minute punctules. 



Diagnostic characters. — The two specimens before me appear to 

 be quite distinct. The slightly ventricose elytra, transverse and 

 rather short pronotum, with the sides rather strongly rounded, small 

 aj)ical angles; elytra with strife of rather coarse punctures, which are 

 coarser laterally, the intervals more or less convex and distinctly so 

 on the apical extremity, general surface smooth and not at all muricate, 

 with the integuments dull, give quite a characteristic facies. 



The female in form somewhat resembles the larger form of nupta 

 ( see hispilahris ) . 



Suhpinguis is apparently most closely related to gracilis and 

 dentipes. From the former it is separated by the much broader 



