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lateral margin, and with short, sharply defined, prehumeral carinae; 

 surface coarsely, densely granulose, coarsely, densely, transversely 

 rugose, and with numerous fine punctures between the rugae. Scu- 

 tellum strongly, transversely carinate, and the surface finely, densely 

 reticulate. 



Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, about equal in width 

 at base and apical third, broadly, arcuately constricted in front of 

 middle, and obliquely narrowed from apical third to the tips, which 

 are separately, broadly rounded, and feebly, irregularly serrulate; 

 sides of abdomen slightly exposed above ; disk feebly convex, vaguely, 

 longitudinally depressed, sutural margins elevated posteriorly, and 

 with broad, shallow basal depressions; surface densely, coarsely 

 imbricate-punctate. 



Abdomen beneath densely, obsoletely granulose, rather densely, 

 coarsely, uniformly punctate, the punctures more or less connected 

 transversely by fine, sinuate lines, which are coarser on basal seg- 

 ment, and rather sparsely, uniformly clothed with short, recumbent, 

 whitish pubescence ; first and second segments convex at middle ; ver- 

 tical portions of segments not conspicuously pubescent; pygidium 

 sparsely, coarsely punctate, feebly, longitudinally carinate, but the 

 carinae not projecting. Presternum finely, densely granulose, some- 

 what rugose, and sparsely clothed with short, semierect hairs; pros- 

 ternal lobe broad, strongly declivous, and feebly, arcuately emar- 

 ginate in front; prosternal process rather narrow, the sides parallel 

 to behind the coxal cavities, then obliquely narrowed to the apex, 

 which is acute. Posterior coxae with the posterior margin broadly, 

 arcuately emarginate, and the exterior angle rectangular. Tibiae 

 slender, and the anterior and middle pairs armed with a short tooth 

 at apex. Posterior tarsi slightly shorter than tibiae, and the first 

 joint as long as the following joints united. Tarsal claws cleft near 

 the middle, the outer tooth acute at apex, the inner one slightly 

 broader, turned inward, and the tip touching that of the opposite 

 side. (Anterior and posterior claws missing.) 



Length, 6 mm. ; width, 1.5 mm. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Type locality. — Southern States. 



Redescribed from the female type (specimen No. 13, under egenus 

 Gory) in the LeConte collection in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, at Cambridge, Mass. 



It is rather unfortunate that this species was described from a 

 female, since the females of this and allied species can not be sepa- 

 rated. It is possible that puncticeps LeConte and jugl-andis Knull 

 are the same species. A female paratype of juglandis was compared 

 with the female type of puncticeps, and they seem to be identical, 



