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WILLIAM G. DIRrZ, M. I). 
Fmiicle fi-joiiitcd, fifth ventral segment of 'J, elongate. 
Scales white, or pale: vittfe, if any, not conspicnous, claws armed with a large 
tooth, approximate to its fellow. 
Second joint of funicle elongate, longer than the third. 
Larger, 3.,omm.; elytra not vittate Jacobiiiux. 
Smaller, scarcely exceeding 2.6 mm. 
Scales smaller, elytra vittate 
Scales large, elytra not vittate esiiiiis. 
Second joint of fnuicle not, or scarcely longer than the third. 
Larger (2.0 — 2.3 mm.), sides more rounded, scales smaller afliiiiK. 
Smaller (1.5 — 1.7 mm.) and more narrow, scales larger iiaiiliN. 
Scales more, or less brown, conspicuously vittate with pale scales. 
Larger, claws armed with a broad tooth, third joint of funicle longer than 
the fourth. 
Sides of prothorax nearly straight behind, elytra wider at base than tbe 
former, hind tibiae of male distinctly curved, tooth of claw moderately 
long and not obtuse. Plate vi, fig. 23a eloiigatus. 
Prothorax rounded on the sides, elytra not wider at base than the former, 
hind tibiae of male nearly straight, emarginate, tooth of claw short, 
obtuse. Plate vi, fig. 24a ligafii!"*. 
Smaller, claws armed with a long and slender tooth, third joint of funicle 
not longer than the fourth liiieatulns. 
A. Slibvittatus Lee. Plate vi, figs. 19, 19a. — Elongate-oval, pitchy-brown, 
above densely clothed with elongate, brownish scales intermixed with white. 
Beak long, not very slender, feebly curved, median carina and stria each side 
well marked, striolate and punctured, punctures large and superficial. Autenna? 
slender, rufous first joint of funicle loug and slender, second and third joints 
slightly elongate, equal, and together not as long as the former, joints 4-7 rounded, 
outer ones not wider, clava darker, pubescent. Eyes feebly convex and .somewhat 
free posteriorly. Head punctured, densely clothed with lanceolate scales, front 
flattened, fovea elongate. Prothorax a little wider than long, narrowed from 
base to apex, sides feebly rounded and scarcely constricted at the apex ; surface 
coarsely and deeply punctured and clothed with brown, elongate-oval scales and 
three narrow lines of white scales. Elytra distinctly wider at the ba.se than the 
prothorax; humeri rounded; sides nearly straight for one-half their length, 
thence gradually narrowed to apex; strise impres.sed ; punctures moderate, ap- 
proximate; interspaces slightly convex, punctulate and slightly rugose ; scutel- 
lum, scutellar line, fourth interspace from the middle, sixth from the base and 
to a variable extent, covered with whitish scales; a large denuded patch eaidi 
side behind the middle; under surface clothed with coarse, whitish pubescence. 
Legs and tarsi long and slender, reddish ; femora scarcely clavate. anterior 
feebly dentate ; tibia slender, posterior of male curved in their distal half and 
slightly dilated at the tip, those of the female straight; tarsal claws divergent 
and armed with a long, slender tooth. Long. 2.8 — 3 mm ; .11 — .12 inch. 
Hab. — California. Coll. Dr. Horn. 
The fifth ventral segment is not longer than the jtrecetling, the 
pygitlinni e.Kposetl in both sexes; the tooth of claw is very slender 
and more conspicnons than in the next species. 
