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Elytra shorter and more, broadly ovate; widest a little before the middle, at 

 least in the ^ ; size generally smaller, color usually fuscotestaceous, 



the prothorax often paler CavicolliS. 



Tempora long, outer joints of funicle transverse, or at least as wide as long. 



Icuella. 



II. cliaiiia>ro|>is sp. nov. — Oblong, parallel, moderately convex, feebly 

 shining, pubescence very fine and sparse, whitish in color. Color pale testaceous, 

 scutellum and also a median and apical dot, or small spot on each elytron black 

 or brownish black. There is also usually between these spots a more or less 

 obvious paler brown sutural spot or shade of variable shape, and the mesosternum 

 and side pieces of the metasternum are brownish. Head subequal in width to 

 the prothorax ; eyes large and prominent; tempora well developed, rounded pos- 

 teriorly; front scarcely one-half wider than the longest diameter of the eye. 

 sparingly scarcely visibly punctulate. Antennae about reaching the hind angles 

 of the prothorax, club 2-jointed, all joints longer than wide, except the tenth, 

 which is as wide as long. Prothorax transverse, sides angnlate at the middle, 

 straight and moderately convergent anteriorly, concave posteriorly, hind angles 

 nearly right; margin not at all denticulate; surface dull and subimpunctate, 

 without antescutellar fovea, hut with sides broadly transversely impressed poste- 

 riorly. Elytra nearly one-half wider than the prothorax, not quite twice as wide 

 as long, sides parallel, apex not at all truncate, sutural angles rounded ; strial 

 punctures large, hut feebly impressed and vague, especially laterally; intervals 

 scarcely visibly punctate. Beueath subimpunctate. Front coxa- separated by 

 about two-fifths the coxal width, middle coxse separated by their own diameters. 

 Metasternum not sulcate posteriorly; intercoxal process of the first ventral trun- 

 cate; first ventral with an oblique impressed line running backward and outward 

 from the inner margin of each coxa. Legs rather slender. (PI. V, figs. 61 and 61a). 



Male. — Abdomen with five visible segments; fringe of hairs at tip of front 

 tibiae a little longer than in the female. 



Female. — Abdomen with six segments. 



Length 1.1 — 1.3 mm. 



Hab. — Florida (Lake Poinsett ; Haw Creek ; Biscayne). 



This very interesting species is one of the numerous discoveries 

 of the late Henry G. Hubbard. It lives exclusively — so Mr. 

 Schwarz writes me — in the half-dried fans of the Florida Palmetto. 



At first glance the general facies of chamaeropis is so different 

 from typical Melanophthalma as to suggest the necessity for a new- 

 genus for its reception ; hut a search for structural characters to 

 support this view reveals the fact that aside from its more parallel 

 form, the differences between it and the other members of the sub- 

 genus Cortilena are entirely of a superficial nature. The front coxae 

 are here more widely separated than in any other species of the 

 Corticariini. 



M. picta Lee. — Oval, moderately robust, color flavo- to rufotestaceous. elytra 

 with a transverse median shade, and usually a basal and apical cloud, fuscous : 

 or by suffusion the elytra may become fuscous, each marked with an anterior 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXVI. DECEMBER, 1899. 



