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Head and pronotum of the male pale yellowish-white, the latter with a black an- 

 teriorly sinuate basal margin extending to lateral sixth ; elytra oblong, longer than 

 wide, obtusely subtruncate at tip, with pale vitta and lateral and basal margins 

 nearly as in the two preceding species, except that the basal margin is almost 

 interrupted at outer third by the black vitta, the pale vitta parallel and very close 

 to the suture, as wide as the black vitta or wider, obtusely acuminate at apical 

 fifth ; punctures very fine and rather close-set ; body much narrower than in the 

 preceding. Length 1.6 mm.; width 0.8 mm. New Mexico (Las Cruces)— Mr. 



Cockeiell ingenilUS, sp. nov. 



Head and pronotum of the male pale flavate throughout, the latter suffused with 

 reddish toward base, of the female dark rufo-piceous, the pronotum blackish 

 toward base and with a narrow side-margin, extending inward slightly at apex, 

 pale ; elytra in both sexes black, finely, rather sparsely punctate, oblong, verj' 

 broadly rounded at tip, with a narrow pale basal and lateral margin terminating 

 near the sutural angles, as in the preceding species but narrower and more deeply 

 sinuate around the base of the callus, and also sinuate at apical fourth, the pale 

 vitta forming merely an elongate discal spot just behind the middle in the female, 

 and extending from basal two-fifths to apical third in the male, the elytra in the 

 latter barely as long as wide, rather longer in the female ; body much larger. 

 Length 2.65-2.8 mm.; width 1. 4-1. 75 mm. Colorado (Colorado Springs)— Mr. 



Wickham insignis, sp. nov. 



3_Elytra entirely black, with a narrow pale margin along the base and down the 

 sides as far as the middle ; front of the head and apical margin of the pronotum 

 u-regularly yellow in the male. Length [2.0 mm.]. California. .arcuatUS Lee. 

 4 Broadly oblong-oval, broadly rounded behind, finely punctate, the head and pro- 

 notum black in the female, the latter with a narrow parallel pale side-margin ; 

 elytra about as long as wide, pale flavate, the suture broadly black, the vitta 

 constricted slightly just behind the scutellum and strongly at the apical angles, 

 each with an elongate triangular black dash involving the callus and extending 

 from the basal margin at outer third for two-fifths. Length 2.1 mm.; width 1. 4 



mm. Florida militaris Lee. 



5_Body oblong, subtruncate behind, pale luteo-flavate throughout above and beneath, 

 except the head, which is piceous ; prothorax only slightly wider than the head, 

 very feebly sinuate at apex, the latter only very slightly narrower than the base, 

 the sides feebly arcuate, the punctures very fine ; elytra slightly longer than wide, 

 finely but rather strongly, moderately sparsely punctate. Length 1.9 mm.; width 



1.3 mm. Massachusetts (Mt. Tom) transfugatUS, sp. nov. 



6_Sody almost evenly oval, only slightly obtuse at apex, the sides strongly arcuate, 

 dark piceo-castaneous throughout, the legs scarcely paler, the head nebulously 

 paler toward the apex; the pronotum very nan-owly flavate at the sides toward apex, 

 finely punctulate ; elytra but slightly wider than the prothorax, about as long as 

 wide, finely and sparsely but distinctly punctate, the humeral angles, extending 

 more or less briefly along the edge posteriorly, and two subapical spots arranged 

 subtransversely and frequently coalescent, pale flavate. Length i. 4-1. 6 mm.; 

 width 0.S5-I.O mm. California (Monterey) . COnsplratUS, sp. nov. 



