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impressed at the base on each side, and with a posterior 
median fovea. Legs long. The 9 is described by Casey as 
B. injinita. 
Habitat. Louisiana, Texas. 
B. TEXANA, Casey. Uniformly pale reddish-brown, polished, 
pubescence short, not appressed. Length, 1.3 mm. Plate 
IX., Fig. 59. 
flead small, impunctate, frontal margin nearly straight, 
sides from the eye more convergent anteriorly than usual; 
eyes large, prominent, occipital foveze in a line anterior to 
the eyes, deep, three times more distant from one another than 
is either from the eye. Frontal foveze small, situated inside a 
conspicuous inter-antennal depression. Antenne half the 
length of the body, first and second joints cylindrical, the 
second smaller; the following joints to the seventh are nar- 
rower, cylindrical, gradually shorter, the eighth square, ninth 
and tenth obconical, rapidly increasing in width. The eleventh 
is oblong-ovate, thicker and equal in length to the three pre- 
ceding. Prothorax wider than long, and in the middle a little 
wider than the head including the eyes; sides convergent 
anteriorly, emarginate posteriorly, disk very convex, lateral 
fovez one-third from the base, impressed at the sides, median 
fovez very near the base which has a row of oblong foveole. 
Llytra as long as the head and prothorax, apical width one- 
fifth greater than the sutural length. Humeral width one- 
fourth greater than that of the prothorax. Sides just visibly 
arcuate, disk réticulate, slightly convex, the lines, five, strongly 
arcuate, convergent, abbreviated one-fourth from the tip; 
sutural lines very slightly arcuate, rather far apart. 4 abdo- 
men with only the basal segments visible from above, nearly 
as long as wide, margin broad, strongly retuse, convergent 
posteriorly, the disk more convex, behind impunctured. 
Carinz very short, including two-fifths of the entire width. 
Legs long, posterior tibiz slightly arcuate. 
Habitat. West Texas, New Mexico. 
