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and scarcely more than double the strial width. Front tibise smooth, lateral 

 margin finely crenulate above; first joint of hind tarsus equal to the two and 

 one-half following. Length 4.2 mm. ; width 1.9 mm. 



Texas. 



Described from a single example sent me years ago as crassidus. 

 Further investigation shows that this is the Texan form referred to 

 under crassidus in Horn's Synopsis. It is placed with the true 

 crassidus in the LeConte collection, but Mr. Blanchard on compari- 

 son finds it distinct from the typical form, which is known only 

 from Florida, and is at once separated by its very robust body which 

 is wider behind as in certain species of j^gialia. 



Apliodiiis crassuloides n. sp. 



This species is closely related to the preceding and to crassidus, to 

 which it would be traced by using the Horn tables. From abusus 

 it is separable as follows : form slightly less robust, evidently less 

 convex in profile ; clypeal angles rather less prominent ; gense much 

 less prominent; there is an ill defined but evident short transverse 

 anterior ridge present in all specimens seen, no trace of which exists 

 in abusus. Prothorax punctate throughout nearly as in riiricola, 

 the punctures at middle being about as in abus^ls, but at sides 

 plainly less dense than in the latter species. Elytral striae finer than 

 in abusus, the edges of the intervals more obviously crenulate by the 

 punctures, the seventh interval but little narrower than the sixth 

 or eighth at middle. Length 3.8-4.4 mm. ; width 1. 75-2.1 mm. 



Cloudcroft, New Mexico. 



Numerous example taken by Mr. Warren Knaus. Sexual diflfer- 

 ences are slight. Both abusus and crassuloides bear a general like- 

 ness to the common rnricola and granarius. From the former the 

 angulate clypeus renders separation easy, while granarius, aside 

 from the group characters, is at once distinguished by the broad 

 sutural interval of the elytra, this being much narrower than the 

 second in crassuloides, the disparity being even more marked in 

 abusus. 



A|>liO(liu$$ neotomse n. sp. — Oblong-oval, some examples a little broader 

 behind, others scarcely so. Head and thorax piceous, the latter with the sides 

 sometimes indefinitely paler; elytra dark rufopiceous; beneath piceous. tip of 

 abdomen paler; legs dark rufous, varying to piceous. Head rather feebly tritu- 

 berculate posteriorly, the tubercles connected by a fine raised line; clypeus punc- 

 tate and subrugulose, dull in lustre, front margin broadly sinuato-truncate at 



TBANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXIII. JULY, 1907. 



