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Last abdominal segment shining, very finely rugose. 



Male front and middle tarsi with the first and second joints slightly 

 thickened and feebly produced. 



Male and female types from Covington, La. (George Coverdale), 

 are in my collection. 



Other localities from which I have seen specimens are Galena, 

 Kansas (E. Crumb) ; Brownsville, Tex. (H. F. Wickham) ; Mis- 

 souri, Texas and Mass. (U. S. Natl. Mus.). 



Looking at this species superficially it may be separated from the 

 other species with dark or black hind femora by the maculation. It 

 has no median black patch on the suture, as does miiticus, and is sep- 

 arated from floridcnsis, shcrmani and pedunculatus by the lack of 

 any subhumeral spot and the narrow, black sutural margin, occupy- 

 ing only half the space between the suture and first stria, and not 

 wider basally than apically or touching the median spot. 



Peltodytes tortulosus new species. 



Broadly oval, greenish yellow, hump-backed. 



Size: length 4H— 5 mm.; width 2^^—334 mm. 



Head broad between the eyes, finely, evenly punctured, a smooth space 

 before vertex, vertex more or less infuscate : eyes round, not large, prominent ; 

 antenna? light yellow. 



Pronotum evenly, not closely punctured with small punctures on the 

 apical half and sides, a few coarser ones on the base and in the rather la.fge 

 basal black spots ; a deep impression across the base between the spots. 



Elytra broadest at the shoulders, feebly narrowed to the exterior apical 

 angle, strongly arched medianly and flattened basally so as to appear hump- 

 backed ; apices feebly sinuate-truncate with the angles broadly rounded ; e'leven 

 striate, the fourth stria not interrupted ; punctures of the striae coarse basally, 

 much reduced in size below the median line, confused apically by the inter- 

 position of fine punctures ; punctures very black, closely placed, not infre- 

 quently confluent or irregularly placed ; suture very narrowly black, a row of 

 deep confluent punctures along the base from the suture arching down upon 

 the fifth stria ; no subhumeral spot and the usual six spots indistinct or illy 

 defined. 



Under side fulvous, strongly arched at the mid-metasternum, or " chicken- 

 breasted." 



Prosternal process narrow at base, quite strongly constricted just beyond 

 the front coxae, gradually widening to apex, which is about two thirds. the 

 width of base ; sides and apex finely margined, flat basally and concave at 

 and beyond the point of constriction ; not closely punctured. 



Mid-metasternum slightly tumid each side at base, impressed each side 

 behind the middle coxze, finely margined for half the distance to the antecoxal 



