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three-fifths their lengtli, thence rounded to the tip; striae scaicely impressed, 
punctures elongate, moderately large and not very close; interspaces feebly con- 
vex, rugulose and irregularly punctured; underside with a few punctures; ab- 
domen very sparsely, pectus more densely pubescent, anterior thighs armed with 
a very small tooth. Long. 1.5 — 1.8 mm. ; .06 — .07 inch. 
Hab. — Anglesea, N. J. (Dr. Horn); I’iney Point, Mtl. (E. A. 
Scliwjirz ami H. Ulke.) 
X, lilipiitaiiiis n. sp. — Smaller, elongate-oblong, subdepressed, pale testa- 
ceous and very sparsely clothed with fine, whitish pubescence, otherwise very 
similar to pygmseus ; the beak is very sparsely punctured, shining. Antenum, 
eyes and head as in the preceding. Prothorax wider than long, punctures smaller 
and less dense. Elytra elongate, sides feebly rounded from humerus to apex; 
strise fine, punctures small ; interspaces rugulose; underside and legs as in pyg- 
mxus ; tooth of anterior thighs very small, broadly triangular. Long. 1.5 mm.; 
.06 inch. 
Hab . — District of Columbia. 
Two speciinens in Mr. Ulke’s collection. A little more slender 
than the jireceding ; the hook of the anterior and middle tihiai is 
scarcely perceptible. 
ACAL,YFTU« Sch. 
Beak moderately slender, cylindrical, curved; scrobes commencing 
near the middle of the beak, straight, and directed against the mid- 
dle of the eyes. Antenme slender; scape incrassate towards its distal 
end, funicle 7-jointed, equally pubescent, without verticels of stiff 
hairs; first joint long and robust, joints 2-7 gradually wider, closely 
articulate, and scarcely longer than the clava, which is ovoidal acu- 
minate, jfuhescent and annulate; first joint long, occupying nearly 
one-half the length, following joints short. Head broadly conical. 
Eyes feebly convex. Prothorax wider than long, narrowed in front 
and constricted at the apex; base obliquely truncate each side. 
Elytra wider at base than the prothorax, oval, sides feebly rounded, 
indistinctly striate and punctured, rather suddenly narrowed and 
separately rounded at the apex, leaving the pygidium freely exposed; 
anterior coxie narrowly separated by the jirosternum, which is long 
in front of the coxie ; middle coxie sejiarated by the mesosternum, 
which is declivous in front; metasternum moderately long; first and 
second v^entral segments of equal length behind the coxte, third and 
fourth segments short, united as long as the second, fifth scarcely 
longer than the fourth in the male ; longer and broadly rounded in 
the female. Legs rather slender, thighs clavate, mutic ; tibiie slender, 
scarcely widened to apex, anterior and middle not unguiculate, pos- 
