248 NaTurAL History BuLueTtin. 
Abdomen proportionately more broadly margined than in 7. 
longtpalpus, segments subequal, the basal ones just percep- 
tibly longer, the fourth equal to or very slightly longer than 
its neighbors and one-fourth as long as wide. Legs propor- 
tionately longer than in 7. longzpalpus. 
Habitat. Found between the Ohio River and the Great 
Lakes. Pennsylvania. New York. 
T. TESTACEuUs, Casey. Convex, impunctate, brown or 
paler, pubescence fine, sparse, erect. Length 1.5 mm. Plate 
Vil. Fig: -28: 
fflead from the frontal tubercles to the base slightly longer 
than wide. Eyes prominent, finely facetted, tempora equal 
in length to the eyes, convergent, nearly straight, not 
prominent; occiput high, convex, obliquely declivous forwards 
towards the impression behind the frontal tubercle; sides 
convergent from the eyes to these tubercles. Between the 
frontal tubercles and the eye the lateral margin is expanded 
into a minute, sharp, horizontal tubercle overhanging the 
lateral declivity, and close behind this is a minute puncture. 
Antenne as in T. longtpalpus. Palpi with the second joint 
longest, a securiform pedunculated club. Third joint half as 
long as the second, exteriorly straight, interiorly arcuate, 
widest in the middle, half as wide as long,. Fourth joint one- 
half longer, securiform with a terminal seta. Prothorax 
widest at middle where it is arcuate, nearly straight toward 
the neck and base. Disk more convex than in 7. /ongzpalpus, 
near the base is an oblong median fovea and on each side 
between the median and lateral foveze is a small puncture. 
Elytra very convex, as wide across the shoulders as the pro- 
thorax and two-thirds wider at tip. Sides divergent, slightly 
arcuate, disk impunctate, discal line abruptly ending at middle, 
sutural interval convex. Addomen broadly margined the seg- 
ments subequal in length the basal one-sixth as long as wide. 
Legs, antenne and palpi not paler than the body. 
Habitat. Found in the country around the Great Lakes. 
