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VELLICA n. gen. (Homalini.) 



The following description and subsequent remarks will 

 sufficiently characterize this genus, which belongs between 

 Phloeopterus and Lesteva. 



L. longipennis n. sp. — Moderately robust, rather strongly convex; body 

 above throughout dark piceous-browu; prothorax slightly paler; antenute 

 very dark fuscous, first, second and eleventh joints much paler, testaceous; 

 under surface paler, rufous; legs clear rufous, tarsi scarcely paler; integu- 

 ments shining; pubescence coarse, sub-erect, pale fulvous, dense, much 

 more sparse on the pronotum. Head slightly .longer than wide; eyes rather 

 small, at less than their own length from the base, prominent and coarsely 

 granulated; front feebly and transversely convex, more strongly and evenly 

 so between the very minute and extremely feebly impressed frontal foveas, 

 which are on aline nearly through the middle of the eyes and mutually 

 slightly less than twice as distant as either from the eye; punctuation rather 

 fine, strong and dense; antennae slender, filiform, scarcely one-half as long 

 as the body; basal joint more than twice as long as wide, second and fourth 

 sub-equal, shortest, scarcely more than one-half as long as the first, and two- 

 thirds as long as the third, the latter slightly longer than the fifth; joints 

 five to ten equal, eleventh slightly thicker, fusiform, uearlj'- as long as the 

 two preceding together. Prothorax widest at one-third its length from the 

 apex, where it is distinctly wider than the head and very slightly wider than 

 long; sides strongly arcuate, and thence moderately convergent and very 

 feebly incurvate throughout to the basal angles, which are very slightly 

 obtuse and not at all rounded; base transversely truncate, three-fourths as 

 wide as the disk and very slightly narrower than the apex; disk transversely 

 and rather strongly convex, even, not at all depressed toward the basal 

 angles, finely, evenly and rather densely punctate; at each side in the mid- 

 dle, near the edge, there is a lirge, rounded and very feeble impression. 

 Elytra at base very slightly wider than the prothorax; sides very feebly 

 divergent, feebly arcuate; outer apical angles very broadly rounded; to- 

 gether;feebly emarginate behind; disk two and one-third times as long as the 

 pronotum, transversely and rather strongly convex, widest near the apex, 

 where it is two-fifths wider than the pronotum and two-fifths longer than 

 wide, somewhat coarsely, feebly, sparsely and asperately punctate, leaving 

 but three segments of the abdomen exposed. Abdomen very short, much 

 wider than long, triangular, strongly and narrowly margined at base, strongly 

 alutaceous. Legs moderately robust; posterior tarsi slender, cylindrical, 

 glabrous; first j )int nearly as long as the second and third together, very 

 slightly longer than the fifth. Length, 3.0 mm. 



California (Middle Sierras). 



