168 NORTH AMERICAN 



TOoderat«'ly convergent ; disk obtusely rounded at the unmediate apex, two 

 and one-half times as long as wide, nearly twice as long as the head and 

 prothorax together, nearly Hat above, strongly declivous near the sides 

 which are narrowly reflexed, shining, very translucent, punctato-striate ; 

 punctures round, deeply impressed, closer in the rows than the width of 

 the intervals between the latter, with a short scutellar row ; humeral angles 

 rounded. Legs rather long ; femora strongly swollen ; tibiae slender ; tarsi 

 short, robust, slightly dilated, clothed beneath with very dense pale setae, 

 the setae bulbous at tip ; penultimate joints very strongly bilobed. Abdo- 

 minal segments decreasing in length posteriorly, finely and sparsely punc- 

 tate, minutely strigato-granulose ; pro-meso- and metasterna extremely 

 coarsely deeply and ratber closely punctate, the former i>roduced posteriorly 

 between the coxae in a long process squarely truncate at tip and strongly 

 narrowed toward base, with the ajjical angles acute and the sides bisinuate. 

 Length 4.0-4.5 mm. 



Crescent City, Florida. 



The genus Cryptamorpha is evidently distinct from Psammoecus 

 altliongh often confounded with it, the two genera being amply dis- 

 tinguished by tlie cylindrical terminal joint of the maxillary palpus in 

 the former and its triangular form in tiie latter. The present species is 

 very interesting, bearing a I'emarkable resemblance to C Desjardlnsi 

 whicli is said to be cosmopolitan in its range, and yet differing most 

 remarkably in the structure of the epistoma and Uibrum, and especially 

 in the terminal joint of the antennae. It was found abundantly at 

 one isolated spot in Florida by Mr. H. jG. Hubbard, who informs me 

 that it has a most deceptive resemblance to an insect of the same 

 genus described by Braun from New Zealand. As two local species 

 occurring in such antipodal and limited regions must almost neces- 

 sarily be distinct, it gives me great pleasure to dedicate the above- 

 described form to its discoverer. 



KIIIZOPIIAGUS llerbst. 



R. procerus n. sp. — Form elongate, rather strongly depressed ; sides 

 parallel ; color piceous-black to dark brownish-testaceous, legs and autennal 

 club slightly jtaler ; integuments glabrous and polished. Head distinctly 

 longer than wide, widest across the eyes ; the latter are small, rather promi- 

 nent, and finely granulated, situated at the middle of the sides whicli, bi'liind 

 them, are feebly convergent to the base and distinctly sinuate ; sides of the 

 front very slightly more strongly convergent ; epistoma ratber strongly pro- 

 duced, narrowly sinuate in the middle anteriorly, angles broadly rounded ; 

 interocula*' surface feebly convex, very feebly and minutely sub-granulose, 

 finely, evenly and not strongly punctate, punctures distant by about three 

 times their own width ; mandibles short and robust, external outline semi- 

 circular, apex very acute, inner tooth minute, near the apex ; antennae 

 much shorter than the liead, first joint robust, slightly longer than wide, 



