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two-tliirds longer than wide, nearly as in siiffusa, the antennae a little shorter 

 than the body, the scape one-half longer than the prothorax. Prothorax two- 

 fiftlis longer than wide, equal in length to the head, cylindrical, the sides 

 parallel ; surface densely and evenly pubescent, with a small narrow denuded 

 median area. Elytra between four and five times as long as the prothorax, 

 equal in width to the latter toward base but two-thirds wider behind the 

 middle, then narrowed to the apex which is deeply, triangularly emarginate, 

 the processes acute but blunt at apex and feebly everted ; disk coarsely, 

 deeply, rather closely punctate, the punctures and pubescence having a 

 vaguely lineate disposition, with large uneven semi-denuded blotches. Length 

 9.7 mm. ; width 1.3 mm. 



Texas. 



Differs greatly from the Mexican protensa and variegata in its 

 small equilateral scutellum, and from suffvsa and phaMasma in its 

 larger size and from the latter in addition in the absence of long 

 curved rigid setiB. From the eastern stolafa and Cuban grandis it 

 differs in its convex and not flattened elytral disk, and from the 

 Cu))an filum in its non-sulcate elytra. The semi-denuded blotches 

 of the elytra are sparsely scattered, but slightly darker in color, and 

 are broad and very irregular and not linear as in stolata. 



TENEBRIONID.E. 



STIBIA Horn. 



The following species belongs near ovipennis, but differs greatly 

 in the structure of the e\^cs : — 



S. inaritima n. sp. — Moderately robust, strongly convex, polished, 

 brownish-testaceous in color, glabrous. Head finely, rather densely punctate 

 and finely, longitudinally subrugulose ; antennre two-fifths as long as the 

 body, very slender, feebly clavate at apex, third joint one-half longer than 

 the fourth, the latter equal in length to the second ; eyes moderate, feebly 

 and evenly convex. Prothorax two-thirds wider than long, the base and apex 

 equal, the former feebly arcuate, the latter correspondingly emarginate ; sides 

 parallel, evenly and distinctly arcuate ; apical angles acute but not produced ; 

 disk evenly convex, deeply, moderately coarsely punctate, the punctures tend- 

 ing to coalesce longitudinally toward the sides, sparser toward the middle. 

 Eliitra one-third longer than wide, oval, in the middle one-half to three- 

 fourths wider than the prothorax ; sides strongly arcuate throughout, the 

 humeri not evident ; apex acute ; disk with approximate rows of fine, rather 

 feeble punctures in basal three-fifths only. Abdomen minutely, extremely 

 sparsely punctate, the metasternum very coarsely, rather closely so, the \ivo- 

 sternum rather coarsely and very densely. Legs slender. Length 3.3-3.7 

 mm.; width 1.6— 1.9 mm. 



