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cate-punctate, sparsely clothed with short, inconspicuous, white hairs 

 toward apices. 



Abdomen beneath sparsely marked with transverse, crenulate lines, 

 imbricate-punctate at sides of basal segment, finely, sparsely punc- 

 tate on the other segments, and sparsely, uniformly clothed with 

 short, recumbent, white hairs; first segment convex at middle, the 

 suture between the first and second segments vaguely indicated at the 

 sides; last segment broadly rounded at apex; vertical portions of 

 the segments not conspicuously pubescent ; pygidium coarsely punc- 

 tate, longitudinally carinate, but the carina not projecting at apex. 

 Prosternum sparsely, finely punctate, and rather densely clothed 

 with long, semierect, white hairs at middle; prosternal lobe broad, 

 strongly declivous, broadly subtruncate in front; prosternal process 

 rather broad, the sides parallel to behind the coxal cavities, then 

 narrowed to the apex, which is acute. Tibiae slender, the anterior 

 and middle pairs slightly arcuate and armed with a small tooth on 

 inner margin at apices. Posterior tarsi nearly as long as the tibiae, 

 the first joint as long as the following three joints united. Tarsal 

 claws similar on all feet, cleft near the middle, the inner tooth 

 broad, distinctly shorter than the outer one, and not turned inward. 



Length, 4.3-4.5 mm; width, 1 mm, 



Tyye locality. — Real de Arriba, Mexico, D.F. 



ry^e.— U.S.N.M. No. 49558. 



Paratype. — In the H. E. Hinton collection. 



Remarks. — Described from two examples, probably both males 

 (one type), collected at the type locality at an altitude of 6,300 

 feet, during July 1932, by H. E. Hinton. 



This species resembles nigHpennis Waterhouse, but it differs from 

 that species in being uniformly black above, in having the antenna 

 serrate from the fifth joint, and the inner tooth of the tarsal claws 

 not turned inward and not touching the tooth on the opposite side. 



AGRILUS TINCTIPENNIS. new species 



Female. — Elongate, slender, rather strongly flattened above, 

 rather strongly shining; head aeneo-cupreous ; pronotum, elytra, and 

 beneath black, with a vague purplish reflection in certain lights, the 

 elytra with the humeral angles cupreous. 



Head with the front broad, feebly convex, slightly wider at the 

 top than at the bottom, lateral margins feebly, obliquely converging 

 from top to bottom, and vaguely, longitudinally depressed; surface 

 coarsely but not deeply, irregularly rugose, coarsely, sparsely punc- 

 tate between the rugae, and sparsely clothed with short, inconspicu- 

 ous hairs; epistoma transverse between the antennae, strongly ele- 

 vated, broadly, rather deeply, arcuately emarginate in front; an- 

 tenna rather long, serrate from the fifth joint, the outer joints 



