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these margins almost straight and slightly converging anteriorly to just behind 

 the eyes where they are abruptly rounded ; anterior margin almost straight ; 

 posterior margin strongly arcuated before scutellum. Scutellum elongate, 

 unicolorous, black, not bivittate with pale, finely punctate on the disk in front 

 and along the margins. Clavus with about four rows of fuscous punctures, 

 the inner rows somewhat abbreviated and confused. The corium rather pro- 

 fusely punctate with fuscous; the costal margin very narrowly expanded and 

 anteriorly impunctate. Membrane embrowned. Rostrum with basal segment 

 reaching base of head, second segment one-third longer than third. Incras- 

 sate fore femur armed with several irregular teeth along the outer two-thirds ; 

 all of femur sometimes more or less piceous. Anterior tibia gently curved. 

 Hind tibia provided inwardly and outwardly with a row of short oblique 

 bristles and with a row of longer setae. Hind tarsus with basal segment a little 

 longer than second and third together. Length 4 mm. 



Described from three examples J* Las Vegas Hot Springs, N. M. 

 (type), ^ Taos Valley, N. ^L. and $ labelled N. Mex. (Coolidge), 

 all from the collection of the U. S. N. ]M. 



This species is smaller than 6". nebulosns Fall, the only other 

 member of the gentis in our fauna. The scutellum is not, as in 

 nebulosus, bivittate with pale, the lateral margins of the pronotum 

 less widely expanded and provided with a greater number of setiger- 

 ous punctures, the hind tibia have a number of long setae besides the 

 rigid bristles. 



Cligenes delineata Dist. 



No member of this genus has hitherto been reported from the 

 United States. However, in the collection of the U. S. N. M. are 

 four specimens of the above species from Los Angeles and one from 

 Palm Springs, California, and another labelled Texas, Belfrage. One 

 of these bears on the label the ms. name Beosus (?) modestns Uhler. 

 Distant placed this species in the genus Salacia Stal, but as shown 

 by Bergroth (Ann. Soc: Entomol. Belg., 153, 1913) this name is pre- 

 occupied and must give way to Cligenes Dist. In this same paper 

 the author gives the synonymy of the closely related genus — Antil- 

 locoris Kirk. 



These two genera containing our smallest Lygseids are readily 

 separated by the fact that Cligenes is commonly somewhat shining, 

 not at all or very sparsely pilose; the two lobes of the pronotum 

 plainly separated by an obtuse transverse constriction, the anterior 

 lobe being impunctate ; the anterior femur more obviously incras- 



