NORTH AMERICAN OOLEOPTERA. 
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K. ciirvipes u. sp. Plate v, fig. 32. — Elougate-oval, black, not densely, 
clothed with rather large white scales. Beak moderately long and slender, 
regularly curved, shining, punctured with an indistinct stria each side. An- 
tenuie slender, dark piceous; scape straight, only moderately thickened at the 
ape.x : funicle 7-jointed, first joint as long as the three following united, second 
scarcely longer than the third; three outer joints a little longer and wider; 
clava not closely 'articulate. Eyes as in the preceding. Head moderately con- 
vex and rather densely clothed with scales; front silicate. Prothorax wider than 
long, narrowed in front, broadly rounded on the sides and scarcely constricted 
at the apex ; base very feebly biemarginate ; surface densely and coarsely junic- 
tured ; scales large, more condensed on the sides and along the median line. 
Elytra about one-fourth wider at the base than the prothorax; humeri rounded, 
scarcely wider behind ; strije impressed, punctures moderately large and rather 
closely set; interspaces moderately convex ; scales somewhat condensed on the 
fourth and sixth interspaces, an ill-defined, subdenuded patch each side behind 
the middle ; underside punctured ; thorax rather densely scaly, abdomen clothed 
with coarse pube.scence; ventral segments similar to mimicus, but th'e fifth ven- 
tral segment is nearly twice as long as the fourth and the pygidium only par- 
tially uncovered in the male. Legs I'ather slender, squamous; femora feebly 
clavate, all armed with an acute tooth, which becomes almost obsolete on the 
hind pair; tibite slender, anterior and middle feebly curved, slightly biemar- 
ginate internally and strongly uuguiculate at apex, posterior strongly curved in 
both sexe.s, apical mucro long and slender; tarsi as in mimicus, Long. 2 mm.; 
.08 inch. 
Hab. — Nevada, New Mexico. 
Four specimens ; coll. Dr. Horn, E. A. Schwarz and H. Ulke. 
Distinguished by its siin]de claws and strongly curved posterior 
tihiie; the latter character might give rise to its being referred to 
the subgenus Cnemocyllus ; examination of the claws, hotvever, will 
prevent such a nnstake. 
K. soi'iciiliis 11 . sp. — Closely allied to the preceding, with which it agrees 
in form and coloration of integument, but is a little larger. It ditfers as follows: 
With the exception of the head, vittaj and sciitellum, the uiiper surface is thinly 
clothed with small, semi-transparent scales, under side densely scaly. Beak 
longer than head and prothorax, slender, finely carinate, carina extending from 
the frontal fovea to about the middle of the beak; first joint of funicle less 
elongate, shorter than the three following joints. Prothorax with a narrow, 
entire median vitta of large white scales ; sides underneath densely clothed with 
large white scales, which, however, do not extend upon the upper surface. Elytra 
rather finely striate and punctured ; scutellum white, a basal vitta on the sixth 
and a short one about the middle of the fourth interspace of large white scales ; 
the tibiae are a trifle more slender, anterior and middle nearly straight, scarcely 
emarginate internally, with the apical hook less prominent; the posterior tihiae 
are straight, and the apical mucro is small. Long. 2.5 mm. ; .10 inch. 
Hab. — Los Angeles, Cal. 
A unique $ of tliis very distinct and pretty sjiecies in tlie codec- 
