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Genus CARCILIA Roelofs, 1874. 



Carcilia Roelofs, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 17, 1874, pt. 2, pp. 152-155. Type 



strigicollis Roelofs, monotypic. 

 Trichomagdalis Fall, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 39, 1913, No. 1, pp. 37-38. 



Type, /osaaeiw Fall, by original designation. 



The following is a translation of the original description, which 

 was pubUshed in French: 



Head large, suglobular, declivous in front. Beak drooping, as long as head, robust, 

 a little enlarged toward the tip; scrobes anterior in the male, or behind the middle in 

 the female, arcuate, strongly oblique and attaining the base. Antennae rather long, 

 robvise, especially in the male, not strongly elbowed; scape short, capitate; funicle 

 seven-jointed, first two joints elongate, subequal, obconical, the third, fourth, and fifth 

 subturbinate, and the last joints shorter and transverse; club elongate, oval, apically 

 acuminate, fom"-jointed, pubescent. Eyes very large, transverse, oval, shortly approx- 

 imate above. 



Pro thorax as long as wide, convex, feebly bisinuate at base, with posterior angles 

 rectangular, without ocular lobes, strongly and angularly emarginate beneath. 



Scutellum moderate, triangularly rounded. Elytra elongate, hardly wider than 

 the prothorax; covering the pygidium. 



Legs short, very robust, compressed. Femora dentate. Tibiae strongly unguicu- 

 late at apex, unguis in form of a straightened claw. The three first joints of the tarsi 

 very large; the claws of the fomlh divaricate, dentate beneath. Mesosternal process 

 narrow. Second segment of the abdomen as long as the two following together, sepa- 

 rated from the first by a suture almost effaced at the middle and curved at this place. 

 The abdomen is narrow, angular. 



The typical species of the genus are Japanese. 



TABLE OF SUBGENERA OF CARCILIA. 



1. Claws toothed beneath Carcilia Roelofs. 



2. Claws single Trichomagdalis Fall. 



TABLE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF TRICHOMAGDALIS. 



1. Vestiture quite uniform 2 



^'estiture more condensed with semiglabrous areas unicolorous fawn-colored 

 conspersa Fall. 



2. Vestiture mottled reddish and grayish above almost uniform grayish beneath for 



anterior portions but reddish on abdomen fasdata Fall. 



Vestiture uniformly whitish atrata Fall. 



CARCILIA (TRICHOMAGDAUS) FASCIATA Fall. 



Trichomagdalis fasciatus Fall, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 39, 1913, pp. 37, 38. 



A male specimen is at hand collected by H. S. Barber, on Redwood 

 Creek, Blair's ranch, Humboldt County, California, June 13. 



This specimen has tmy denticles beneath about the middle of the 

 femora, thus answering Roelofs' diagnosis of the genus. It measures 

 shghtly over 5 mm. in length. The first abdominal suture is indis- 

 tinct and curved forward at the middle. This character is also 

 brought out by Roelofs. 



