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entire; second slightly interrupted at middle and apical two-fifths by the veiy 

 faint and ill defined impressions; third shorter. Beneath rather strongly cupreo- 

 seneous, pubescent, moderately coarsely closely punctate. Prosternum not lobed 

 in front, ventral segments with small lateral callosities, last ventral not serrulate 

 at sides, the apex squarely truncate. Length 11 mm. ; width 4.4 mm. 



New Mexico (Alamogordo). A single specimen collected by 

 Viereck. 



The type is in the collection of the American Entomological 

 Society. It is evidently a 9 ; the front tibi?e are arcuate but with- 

 out tooth or apical dilation. The non serrate last ventral throws 

 this species into Horn's Group VII, none of the species of which it 

 resembles at all closely ; it may precede sexsignata. The clypeal 

 margin is unlike in outline that of any species previously described 

 but would be most like femorata of those figured by Horn, if the 

 sides of the latter were straight instead of arcuate. 



AgriliiS towiiseiKli n. sp. — Moderately robust, rather strongly arched in 

 profile, dark bronzed, head and protborax brassy, pubescence fine, spaise and 

 uniformly distributed, both above and beneath. Antennae piceous, serrate from 

 the fourth joint, outer joints transverse. Front nearly flat, median line quite 

 deeply impressed posteriorly, punctuation coarse and moderately close, but with- 

 out trace of strigosity, except close to the thoracic margin, surface polished be- 

 tween thp punctures. Protborax transverse, widest before the middle, sides 

 barely perceptibly sinuate posteriorly, hind angles subrectangular ; base strongly 

 sinuate each side, niedian lobe squarely truncate; disk with a median punctiform 

 impression before the middle, and a larger subbasal one; hind angles with an 

 arcuate carina, which is very obtuse posteriorly, but better defined at its anterior 

 end ; sculpture consisting of fine, widely spaced, posteriorly arcuate and subcon- 

 centric transverse strigfe, the punctuation fine and not close, surface moderately 

 shining. Scutellum finely feebly carinate. Elytra at base equal in width to the 

 protborax, sides very faintly sinuate, apices broadly obtusely rounded and finely 

 serrulate; disk with feebly elevated but distinct costa beginning at basal impres- 

 sion and becoming obsolete at apical third ; surface finely subimbricate. Proster- 

 nal lobe slightly sinuate at middle, intercoxal process suddenly narrowed and 

 acute at tip. Pygidium not carinate. Claws deeply cleft, the inner portion 

 nearly as long as the outer and moderately incurved, their tips nearly equally 

 separated from each other and the outer portion of the claw. Length 7J mm. 



Rio Ruidoso, White Mts., about 6500 ft., beaten from Que7Tus 

 gambellii (Townsend). 



The unique type is a female, and seems to approach most closely 

 angelicus of the previously described forms. The claws are toothed 

 in a fashion nearly intermediate between the two types referred to 

 by Horn in his tabular statement, but I think the species is properly 

 placed as here indicated. If it be referred to the larger group with 



