PUOVEEDiyaS OF THE NATIONAL MUSE CM. 729 



not creiiate; disk moderalcly closely and coarsely, soincwhat inegu- 

 laily, punctate; basal cliaiiuel distinct at the sides. Elytra aliitaceous, 

 yliglitly ingalose; puiictmcs liner and more closely phuted than those 

 of thorax. Pygidiuui sparsely and finely ])unctulate. Metasteriium 

 finely and densely punctulate, with long yellow hair. Abdomen 

 ypaisely i)unctulate at the sides; punctures with short hairs. Claws 

 arcuate, with a strong median tooth. Last joint of maxillary palpi 

 fusiform, not impressed. 



Male. — Autenual club as long as the stem. Abdomen longitudinally 

 concave; penultimate segment with a deep semiiarcular fovea, each 

 side of which is an obli(iue elevated cusp; last segment with an 

 impressed line at middle. Fixed s})ur nearly half the length of the 

 exterior one, strongly curvate. Claspers with the apices long, slender, 

 acute, strongly curvate, sim])le on the right, and with a strong inferior 

 basal hook on the left. 



Length, lo mm. One exam])le collected by Mr. F. F. Crevecoeur, 

 Onaga, Kansas. 



Tijpe.—^o. 572, U.S.K.M. 



What Professor Smith' figures as Lachtiosterna fratenia, female, is 

 the female of L. nora. Smith. The leal female of L. fntterna has the 

 })ubie process furcate at apex, after the manner of 7^. hipartita, but not 

 quite as deeply. 



A male of Laehnosierna (Jiffinin, Blanchard, collected by Miss Etta 

 liraly at Fayetteville, Arkansas, has the antennae lO-jointed. 



PHYTALUS CAVIFRONS, new species. 



Male. — Elongate, cylindrical, shining, pale rufotestaceous. Head 

 darker in color, broad; eyes large; front cojivex, moderately coarsely, 

 not densely punctate; clypeal suture strongly biarcuate, very deeply 

 impressed from eye to eye; clypeus concave, sparsely punctate; mar- 

 gin broadly reflexed, rouiuled at the sides, slightly emarginate at mid- 

 dle. Antenna' lOJointed, second joint globose, third, iburth, and fifth 

 cylindrical; sixth and seventh transverse; club as long as the funicle. 

 Last joint of maxillary pali)i large, flattened above, subtruncate at 

 ai>ex. Thorax a little more than twice as wide as long, a little nar- 

 lowed in front; sides arcuate at middle, not crenulate; base without 

 impressions, finely margined; disk convex, regularlj^, sparsely, rather 

 finely punctate. Elytra slightly wider than thorax, sparsely and 

 fii.ely punctate; sutural costa M'ell marked; discal costa' distinct, 

 j^mooth ; submarginal obliterated. Pygidiuui convex, sparsely, vaguely 

 punctate. Prothorax beneath s])aisely, not deeply, punctate. Meta- 

 sternum very sparsely ch)thed with short hairs, sparsely punctate at 

 middle, a little more densely at sides. Abdomen convex, very sparsely 

 haiiy, almost smooth at middle, sparsely punctulate at sides; last seg- 

 ment with a cupuliform fovea. Legs long and slender, anterior tibiae 



iPro.'. IJ. S. Niii. .Mils.. XI, pi. Liv, fig. 43. 



