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each elytron at sides, starting from base and extending to the middle, and a red 



spot at apex of variable size plagiata. 



Pubescence longer and coarser, elytral strite very distinct, color uniform. 

 Prothorax more finely punctured, color fulvous or brown. 



Pubescence of head and thorax longer and coarser, head without a deeply 

 impressed fovea, or with at most a. faintly impressed short line, form 



shorter and a little more robust, color brown clematis. 



Pubescence of head and thorax shorter, finer, head with a deeply impressed 



fovea at middle, color fulvous viticida. 



Prothorax more coarsely punctured, color piceous or black. 



Punctures of thorax very closely placed, pubescence of thorax, uniform, 



femora at base and sometimes the tibiee pale longipes 



Punctures of thorax well spaced, pubescence forming a denser line on the 



median line of thorax, legs black rntta. 



Myochrous magnus, new species. 



Elongate, fulvous, with slight seneous tint, covered densely with yellowish scales. 

 Head covered densely with yellowish and brown scales, concealing the surface sculp- 

 ture, front longitudinally finely impressed. Antennas pale, nearly twice as long as 

 the thorax, joints three to six slender elongate, the last five joints broader. Thorax 

 as long as broad, slightly arcuate and tridentate at sides, coarsely, closely punctate, 

 covered densely with yellowish scales, lighter in color at sides. Elytra not quite 

 twice as long as broad, with rows of large closely placed punctures, becoming smaller 

 and confused at apex, the punctures larger than the interstices, covered densely with 

 yellowish and brown scales. Underside coarsely, more sparsely punctured, covered 

 not densely with yellowish white scales, which are more hair-like on the abdomen at 

 middle. Legs stout, sparsely clothed with whitish scales, anterior tibice with a strong 

 tooth at apical third ; tarsi broad and short, second and third joints pubescent beneath, 

 third very densely with yellowish hairs. Length, 6.5-7 mm. ; width, 3 mm. 



Brownsville, Tex., June. 



Types. — Four specimens in the collection of the Brooklyn 

 Museum. 



M. longulus Lee. to which only this species can be compared is 

 said to have the thorax longer than broad, but it will be found to be 

 as given in the following table : 



Thorax distinctly tridentate at sides. 



Thorax wider than long ; vestiture of surface not dense, easily removed. 



deniicollis. 

 Thorax as wide as long ; vestiture close and persistent. 



Anterior tibiae with a strong tooth below the middle ; larger specie?, 



magnus. 



Anterior tibiae without tooth, smaller species longulus 



Thorax not dentate at sides squavtostts. 



Spermophagus eustrophoides, new species. 



Oval ferruginous, clothed uniformily with ochreous hairs. Antenna: yellowish 

 testaceous, subserrete, serration beginning with the fourth joint. Head oblong oval, 



