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Remarks. — Described from a single specimen from the Wickham 

 collection, collected in April 1906 by E. P. Van Diizee. 



This species is allied to hhistus LeConte, but it differs from that 

 species in being shorter, more robust, and without distinct tubercles 

 on the elytra and in having the tips of the elytra narrowly rounded, 

 each elytron ornamented with a large, indistinct, brown pubescent 

 spot. 



LEPTOSTYLUS VANDUZEEI, new species 



Small, elongate, moderately flattened above, reddish brown to 

 brownish yellow, densely clothed with whitish and brownish-white 

 pubescence, and ornamented with dark brown or blackish pubescent 

 spots. 



Head with the front quadrate, slightly convex, feebly depressed 

 between the antennal tubercles, which are rather strongly elevated 

 and obliquely divergent, with a narrow, longitudinal groove ex- 

 tending from occiput to epistoma; surface indistinctly punctate, 

 densely, irregularly clothed with long, recumbent, white and brown- 

 ish yellow pubescence intermixed ; eyes separated from each other 

 on the top by twice the width of the upper lobe. Antenna slightly 

 longer than the body, variegated with white and brown pubescence, 

 the outer joints annul ated with brown pubescence. 



Pronotuni twice as wide as long, slightly narrower at base than 

 at apex, widest at basal third; sides feebly, obliquely expanded 

 to basal third, then strongly, arcuately narrowed to near the base, 

 parallel and narrowly constricted at base ; disk even, feebly, broadly, 

 transversely concave along base; surface indistinctly punctate, 

 densely clothed with rather short, recumbent, white and brownish 

 white pubescence intermixed. Scutellum broadly triangular, rather 

 acutely rounded at apex, densely pubescent. 



Elytra three-fourths longer than wide, and subequal in width 

 to the pronotuni at basal third ; humeri not prominent ; sides paral- 

 lel to behind middle, then arcuately narrowed to the tips, which 

 are separately narrowly rounded; disk even, without distinct tuber- 

 cles; surface inconspicuously punctate, the punctures concealed by 

 the dense, long, recumbent, pale brown and white pubescence, the 

 Avliite pubescence forming small, more or less distinct spots, with 

 numerous small, round, irregularly distributed, dark brown pubes- 

 cent spots, and a large, round, dark brown pubescent spot behind 

 the scutellum, common to both elytra, each elytron ornamented with 

 brown pubescence as follows: A narrow, short, oblique, inconspic- 

 uous fascia along sutuial mai'gin just behind tlie middle, and a 

 similar fascia along lateral margin at a])ical fifth. 



Ik'ueath feebly granulose, ratlier densely clothed with long, recum- 

 bent, whitish pubescence, the sternum and legs variegated with white 



