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which are replaced at, or just behind, the middle by more confused 

 rows of fine punctures. In the present species they are normal, the 

 series of coarse punctures extending farther back. Furthermore the 

 anal segment is distinctly rugose and dull instead of shining; the 

 spots distinct, not confluent, and consequently decidedly more of the 

 ground color appears. The prosternal process is broader at base and 

 the punctures finer and more extended on both it and the meta- 

 sternum. 



In many respects it is the opposite of floridensis. 

 Peltodytes shermani new species. 



Oval, testaceous, spots large and distinct. 



Size: length 3^-4 mm.; width 2%.-2y2 mm. 



Head very finely, closely, not deeply punctate ; punctures stronger between 

 the eyes than on vertex ; narrow between the eyes ; eyes large, round, prom- 

 inent ; antennae somewhat darker than head. 



Pronotum with the punctures small, evenly distributed, slightly larger 

 basally ; basal black spots moderate in size. 



Elytra slightly wider at middle than at the shoulders, very gradually 

 narrowed to the exterior apical angle ; apices nearly truncate, feebly oblique 

 and sinuate, with the exterior angle evident and the interior rectangular; the 

 eleven stria;, of which the fourth is broken antemedianly, are composed of 

 moderately coarse punctures not greatly reduced in size until near the apex, 

 not confused ; maculate with seven large black spots placed as follows : one 

 subhumeral laterally, one antemedian on the fourth stria, two below this one 

 sublateral and median, the latter touching the blackened suture, three below 

 these two, subapical, forming a small triangle ; base and suture margined 

 with black, the former narrowly and the latter broadly from base to median 

 spots and then narrowly to the usual black apex. 



Under side light testaceous; legs light testaceous with the joints and 

 entire posterior femora black. 



Prosternal process moderately broad at base, gradually narrowing to 

 front coxae, where they are feebly constricted, and thence only slightly broad- 

 ening to apex ; apex and sides distinctly, though not thickly, margined, evenly, 

 confluently punctured between the margins. 



Mid-metasternum broad between the margins, nearly flat, confluently 

 punctured at base and sides, not impressed ; margins distinct, quite strongly 

 arched at the middle coxae, parallel below them and reaching two thirds the 

 distance to the suture of antecoxal piece. 



Hind coxal plates evenly, finely, shallowly punctured, apices broadly 

 rounded with scarcely a trace of angulation. 



Last abdominal segment somewhat shining, finely rugose on apical half. 



Male with the joints of the front tarsi very little modified, but the middle 

 tarsi have the first and second joints remarkably produced with the third 

 joint simple. 



