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ties of the prothorax in Ophryastes, but as pointed out by Dr. 

 Sharp in the "Biologia" this cannot be properly regarded as a 

 generic character. The latter author is, however, equally at fault 

 in stating that the two genera may be separated by the presence 

 (Eupagoderes) or the absence (Ophryastes) of adhesive pubescence 

 on the lobes of the third tarsal joints, this character being a purely 

 sexual one in at least a considerable number of species of both 

 genera and possibly in all. 



Anametis subfusca u. sp.-Closely related to griseu, from which it 

 differs as follows: the scaly covering is a darker brownish-gray, the elytral sets 

 more numerous and still less evidently serial in arrangement ; prothorax finely 

 subgranulate, the granules closely placed, flattened, each bearing from four to 

 six of the closely adherent scales. The surface in grisea is nearly smooth, not 

 evidently grannlato-reticulate. Length 6-7 mm. 



■ The type is a ^ from Cloudcroft, collected by Mr. Knaus. 



The form is subparallel, the elytra but slightly wider than the 

 thorax ; the last dorsal segment truncate and emarginate, the last 

 ventral subtruncate at apex and with a broad deep concavity ex- 

 tending throughout its length ; third funicular joint about three- 

 fourths as long as the second. With the male type I have associ- 

 ated two female specimens taken by Prof. Cockerell at Beulah and 

 Pecos, which differ in their wider more oval elytra, being in fact 

 closely similar in form to grisea. In these the terminal dorsal and 

 ventral segments are rather narrowly rounded at apex, the latter 

 with a much smaller apical impression ; the third funicular joint 

 hut little more than half the length of the second. The present 

 species bears a very deceptive resemblance to Thricomigus Intens, 

 which differs, however, in its arcuate first ventral suture and iu the 

 stouter antennal funicle and club. 



Ciiiibocera couspersa n. sp.— Rather more than two and one-half 

 times as long as wide; black, densely clothed with small rounded scales and 

 numerous rather fine pointed erect pale hairs, which vary in length from one to 

 two times the width of the sutural interspace; scales cinereous, mottled with 

 darker gray or brownish-gray, the pale color usually predominating. Head 

 evenly convex ; eyes oval, feebly convex ; beak stout, slightly longer than wide, 

 ii little dilated at apex, distinctly separated from the front by a transverse im- 

 pression ; upper surface nearly flat, neither sulcate nor carinate. Antennae 

 rather stout, 1st joint of funicle about equal in length to the next two, 2nd snb- 

 equal to the two following; 3-7 transverse, gradually slightly wider; 7th about 

 as distinct from the club as usual. Prothorax four-fifths as long as wide, sides 

 moderately evenly arcuate, basal and apical constrictions feeble, base and apex 



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



