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length, measured from the front of the eye, about equal to that of the 

 remainder of the head or the median line of the prothorax. Eye ellip- 

 tical, rather large. Antennae wanting. Prothorax short, noticeably 

 narrowed and quite suddenly constricted in front, punctuation coarser 

 and deeper than that of the head, crowded but hardly confluent, 

 each pmicture with a scale mark at bottom. Elytra moderately 

 deeply striate, the striae with large, romided or very slightly ellipti- 

 cal pmictures, much wider than the grooves themselves, those in 

 each series nearly or quite touching, interstitial spaces about one- 

 third the width of the punctures, almost smooth or, in places, finely 

 transversely striate. Each strial pmicture is somewhat crateriform, 

 with raised edge and a central depression which may have held a 

 scale. Sternal side pieces and pygidium punctured. Legs showing 

 only the femora, which are of moderate length and not toothed, 

 almost smooth. Length, excluding rostrum, 3.50 mm. 



Tyjje.—C&t. No. 63453, U.S.N.M. 



Described from one specimen, with comiterpart. At first I was 

 inclined to consider it an example of B. matura, but that insect is 

 smaller and is described as having punctate femora, the elytral rows 

 of pmictures separated by "scarcely more than the width of the 

 puncta." Li the diagram given by Scudder, they are separated by 

 about half that width, but in the present species they are still closer 

 together. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



Plate 37 



Fig. 1. Platynv^ insculptipennis. 



2. Cratacanthus florissantensis. 



3. Harpalus ulomaeformis. 



4. Podahrus cupesoides. 



5. Vnlletta monstrosa. 



Plate 38 



Fig. 1. Anatis resurgem. 



2. Brachyspathus curiosus. 



3. Brachyspathus curiosus, antenna. 



4. Callidium grandaevum. 



5. Callidium grandaevum, antenna. 



6. Bruchu^ antaeus. 



7. Bruchv^ antaevs, antenna . 



Plate 39 



Fig. 1. Harpalus redivivus. 



2. Spondylis tertiarius. 



3. Spondylis tertiarius, antenna. 



4. Pandeleteinus nudus. 



5. Ty chilis ferox. 



6. Baris primalis. 



7. Baris primalis, elytral punctua- 



tion. 



