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(iEO. H. HORN, M. D. 
If the insect before me really represents S. chalcas, and of this I 
have very little doubt, the genus seems to me intermediate between 
(dodes s.s. and Lachnocrepis. With the former it agrees in having 
the first foxir joints of the anterior tarsi of the male dilated and 
papillose beneath, although the posterior tarsi are not pubescent be- 
neath. The mode of dilatation of the tarsi is the same as in Lach- 
)iocre])is. 
It seems to me that Chaudoir was not true to his own methods in 
uniting Stenocrepis, Stenous and Crossocrepis as sections under the 
first name. If it be advisable to se[)arate any of them from Oodes, 
it seems to me desirable to retain Stenocrepis apart, while the other 
two could be very well united. 
In Oodes s.s. the entire under side of the body is comparatively 
smooth, in the others above mentioned the sides of the metasternum 
and the metapleurse, and usually the sides of the first two ventral 
segments are very coarsely punctate. 
EUPHORTIC’US Horn. 
E. occitleiitalis u. sp. 
This name is proposed for a species occurring near Los Angeles, 
Cal., resembling jm/6escens Dej., and differing in the following manner: 
Surface more brilliantly aeneous. Elytral striae very faint, the punctures fine, 
ronucl and rather distant, intervals flat, punctulate. Length 4 mni. ; .16 inch. 
The punctures of the elytral stripe do not extend beyond the mid- 
dle in either species, but in puhescens they are large and more closely 
placed than their own diameters. On the other hand the fine punc- 
tures of the intervals are sparser and less distinct in occidentalis than 
\\\ puhescens. In the latter species the tibipe are always jialer than 
the feuKji-a, in the former they are as dark as the femora. 
PCECIEOEHRUK Bouv. 
To this genus should be referred the species described by me as 
Htethon errans. 
Poecilochrus may be distinguished from Stethon by the straight 
prosternal sutures. In both genera the metasternum has a short 
groove limited by an elevated line begining at the inner side of the 
middle coxae and directed backward in a straight line. 
Dronueolus pnsillus Horn. — This species, while very unlike our 
others, has a number of related forms in the Mexican fauna. They 
nearly all have the |)rosternal sutures very finely grooved and the 
