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except, as usual, anteriorly, where the punctures are dense and 

 rugose ; prothorax very short, rather more than twice as wide as 

 long, strongly narrowed and sinuate at tip, the sides almost evenly, 

 rather strongly arcuate and coarsely crcnulate, the apical angles 

 somewhat acute and subprominent, sculptured nearly as in serra^a, 

 the punctures medially finer and more evidently muricate, coarse 

 and well separated laterally ; surface with a deep impressed line 

 along the basal margin throughout the width as in aspera; elytra 

 oblong, more parallel and with straighter sides than in serrata 

 and with the humeri evidently exposed at base, one-half longer 

 than wide, nearly four times as long as the prothorax and almost 

 a third wider, obtusely ogival posteriorly, the series unimpressed, 

 composed of punctures which are rather coarse, deep and so close 

 as to become irregularly crowded, the single nearly even series of 

 the intervals being much less strongly and very remotely punc- 

 tured ; abdomen sparsely and extremely minutely punctulate me- 

 dially, very convex. Length 5.0 mm.; width 2. 28 mm. Texas 

 (Del Rio), — H. F. Wickham blanda n. sp. 



If the trtie £nrymctopoii, of Eschscholtz, is really represented 

 in the material serving as the basis of this revision, it is more 

 likely to be the present genus than any other, for, although 

 invariably having well developed e3'es, a distinct supra-orbital 

 carina and slender, non-incrassate antennal shaft, it has a good 

 many of the characters assigned by Lacordaire to Eurymctofon 

 7-tifipcs, such as a prothorax decidedly narrower than the elytra 

 as a rule, the latter being frequently feebly sulcate and strongly 

 muricate, or what might be termed rugulose. I however hesi- 

 tate to identify Tclahis as the true Etirymctopon for the present. 



The species described above as histrica bears a rather decep- 

 tive resemblance to Mctoponiuin^ by reason of its unusually 

 coarse sculpture and almost obsolete frontal emarginations, but 

 these punctures have the same general character as in the more 

 normal species of Telabis, and the basal joint of the hind tarsi 

 is quite as greatly elongated. Mimctica resembles crassula and 

 allies closely in general form, but I cannot reconcile the very 

 decided difference in elytral sculpture ; the type is a female and 

 is compared with the same sex of crassula ; the forms allied to 

 crassula are somewhat confusing. In the female the prothorax 

 is frequently either smaller or more transverse than in the male 

 and the elytral sculpture is sometimes a little stronger. In the 

 rather prominent epistoma, lobifrons, incisa and several others, 

 take very much the same position in Tclahis "fAvAi piccus and some 



