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wider than long, the sides feehly convergent and nearly straight in hasal two- 

 thirds, then broadly rounded and gradually convergent to the apex, which is 

 truncate and one-half as wide as the base, the latter straight and transverse, 

 with the median lobe small but abrupt and prominent, rounded ; apical con- 

 striction broad and feeble ; disk somewhat coarsely deeply and very densely 

 punctate, with a narrow, more or less incomplete impunctate line. Scutellnm 

 moderate in size, quadrate. Elytra slightly wider than the prothorax and 

 twice as long, the humeri rather prominent, the sides thence strongly conver- 

 gent and very feebly arcuate to the narrowly rounded apex ; striae fine but 

 deep, the intervals flat, three or four times as wide as the striae, confusedly, 

 rather coarsely punotato-rugulose. Prosternum broadly, distinctly impressed 

 in the middle in both sexes, but much more deeply so in the male the latter 

 having a short erect acuminate horn before each coxa ; anterior coxae rather 

 large, separated by barely their own width. Length 3.5-4.1 mm.; width 

 1.65-1.9 mm. 



North Carolina (Ashevillo) ; Ohio; Illinois; Missouri. 



Very closely allied to neglectus, but differing in its whitish and 

 not dark yellow vestiture, by the broad distinct impression of tiie 

 prosternum in both sexes, and quite distinctly less widely separated 

 anterior coxfe. Numerous specimens. 



10 Centriiius perscilliis GylL— Sch. Cure, III, p. 762. 



Elliptical, moderately robust, the upper surface feebly flattened, 

 black, densel}" clothed throughout above and beneath with grayish- 

 white elongate scales. Beak slender, very strongly, evenly arcuate, 

 one-half as long as the body, with a narrow smooth impunctate 

 line ; sides toward base densely punctate ; antennae inserted a little 

 behind the middle, the scape extending thence three-fourths of the 

 distance to the eyes, second funicular joint slender but unusually 

 short, not quite one-half as long as the first and but very slightly 

 longer than the third; club moderate, oval, densely pubescent, a 

 little longer than the preceding four joints together, and with the 

 basal joint constituting somewhat less than one-half the mass. Pro- 

 sternum flat, rather abruptly declivous anteriorly to the transverse 

 constriction, separating the coxte by quite distinctly more than their 

 own width. Length 3.7 mm.; width 1.85 mm. 



The two specimens before me are apparently females, and are 

 from Kansas and Minnesota. I think that this is without doubt 

 the species described by Gyllenhal, and the species so identified by 

 LeConte (Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 310), having the second 

 funicular joint as long as the first and the prosternum deeph' exca- 

 vated, is probably some other species which remains unknown to me. 



