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than half the length of the body; joints are twice as long or 
longer than thick, ninth and tenth obconical, the last three 
times longer than thick. Elytra with the posterior limit 
arcuately lobed. Abdominal carine distant more than one- 
third of the segmental width. Length, 2.0 to 2.2 mm. 
Europe. | 
B. vauipa, n. sp. Dark piceous-brown, elytra and anten- 
ne red, legs paler or yellow. 
Hlead trapezious, inter-antennal space deeply impressed, 
4 antenne not half as long as the body, the first joint nearly 
as long as the third and fourth together; second shorter, 
oblong, rounded, third to sixth narrower not twice as long as 
thick, seventh and eighth gradually shorter and narrower, 
the latter quadrate. Ninth and tenth trapezoidal, suddenly 
increasing in size, wider than long, eleventh thicker and as 
long as the two preceding together, more convex outside. 
Prothorax deeply depressed each side near the base, Alytra 
with the shoulders slightly wider and the suture slightly 
shorter than in B. sangucnea, abdominal carine not including 
one-third of the segmental width, the segments less convex 
than in the European specimens. This species is the one 
called B. sanguinea in our cabinets. New York, Illinois. 
Length, 2.2 mm. 
B. conyunctTa, Zec. Black, polished, impunctate, elytra 
red or darker, antennz and legs brownish red, palpi yellow. 
Plate VIII., Fig. 46. 
Ffead with the frontal margin emarginate, inter-antennal 
space very concave. Antenne less than one-half the length 
of the body, first joint strong, obconical, second a little smaller, 
oval, third and fourth smaller, obconical, fifth to seventh 
larger, oval, eighth smaller, globular, ninth twice as wide as 
the eighth, trapezoidal, tenth wider, nearly quadrate, eleventh 
as long as the three preceding together, truncate at the base, 
acute at tip, as wide as the tenth. In the 9 the intermediate 
joints of the antennz are equal in length and width, cylindri- 
cal, eighth to tenth more or less globular, the last not so long 
