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CASEY 



The scutellum is small and flat; the upper line of the epipleurae 

 is obtuse, becoming altogether obliterated for a short distance 

 beginning a little behind the humeri and it attains the very acute 

 sutural angles. The body is more obese, with relatively larger 

 prothorax, more broadly and less abruptly lobed at base than 

 in Schoeniciis^ and the legs are shorter and stouter, the anterior 

 tibiae more strongly but obtusely prolonged at the external apical 

 angle, the middle tibia; simpl}'- feebly enlarged at apex. The 

 tarsi are rather long, the last joinfgradually, strongly enlarged 

 from base to apex, the claws very stout, becoming strongly 

 arcuate toward tip, straight toward base ; the tufts of brilliant 

 dense pubescence, clothing all the tarsi beneath, are composed 

 of rather coarser hairs than in Lobometofon and some other 

 related genera. This genus is very evidently a normal mem- 

 ber of the tribe Epitragini and is wholly out of place among the 

 Gnathosiini, to which it was assigned by its author. We have 

 two species, which may be readily distinguished as follows : — 



Form moderately stout, oval, convex, piceo-testaceous in color, still 

 paler beneath, moderately shining, without metallic lustre, 

 covered sparsely with short, decumbent, yellowish hairs, nearly 

 as in Schcenicus ; head small, less than half as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, wider than long, coarsely, not very closely punctate, less 

 coarsely, densely so anteriorly, with long and distinct oblique 

 sutures, the epistomal lobe rather short, broadly angulate ; pro- 

 thorax large, nearly one-half wider than long, parallel, the sides 

 more strongly converging toward apex, subevenly and strongly 

 arcuate from the very obtuse but evident basal angles to the less 

 obtuse but slightly blunt and not at all prominent apical angles, 

 the apex feebly sinuate, three-fourths as wide as the base, the 

 surface very evenly but rather feebly convex, not impressed, with 

 moderate, deep, somewhat well separated punctui'es, becoming a 

 little larger, perforate, elongate, close and tending to unite longi- 

 tudinally laterally, and, again, very small along the lateral edges, 

 also with an impunctate line obliterated anteriorly; scutellum 

 ogival, as long as wide; elytra gradually and arcuately narrowed 

 behind in almost apical half, the apex very acute, scarcely one- 

 half longer than wide, two and one-half times as long as the pro- 

 thorax and, before the middle, very slightly wider, the sides 

 parallel, strongly, evenly arcuate to the obtuse humeral angles, 

 which are scarcely at all exposed at base and with wholly ob- 

 literated callus, the surface with rather coarse, deep, sparse 

 punctures, nearly equal though smaller near the sides than toward 

 the suture, confused, but, in addition, with even series of slightly 

 larger punctures along the central parts of each elytron ; abdomen 



