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strongly convergent and arcuate toward base, the latter very briefly pedun- 

 culate and scarcely more than one-half as wide as the disk; apex broadly 

 arcuate ; disk impunctate, except in a large oblong-oval median area, where 

 the punctures are small but strong, distinct and tuberculifoim ; interspaces 

 perfectly smooth but dull. Elytra twice as long as wide, at base scarcely 

 wider than the prothorax, gradually moderately inflated and more convex in 

 apical half, together broadly rounded behind : basal tubercles feeble ; disk 

 dull and with dense deep and polygonally crowded punctures in basal half, 

 except at the humeri, feebly rugulose but shining behind, with a single 

 transverse raised ivory band before the middle and interrupted at the suture. 

 Legs moderate ; femora strongly swollen beyond the middle and again narrow 

 at apex ; tarsi short. Length 4.25 mm. ; width 1.25 mm. 



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The vestiture i.s very sparse, consistino: of some long erect pale 

 hairs on the prothorax, a few longer near the base of the elytra, 

 and numerous short erect pale ashy hairs on the posterior declivity. 

 This species is stouter than reichei and may be known immediately 

 by the spinose antennse. It is not at all closely allied to spinirornifi 

 Chev. In reichei the pronotal punctures are confined similarly to 

 a large discal patch, but the interspaces are finely rugose; the pro- 

 thorax in that species is narrower and much less strongl}' and ab- 

 ruptly narrowed toward base. 



LEPTURA Linn. 



JL. ^aurotoides n. sp. — Broad, nearly as in Gaurotes, moderately con- 

 vex, dull, the elytra feebly shining ; body, legs and antennje intense black 

 throughout ; pubescence short, dark and inconspicuous. Head moderately 

 finely, extremely densely punctate ; e^'es rather large, the emargination small 

 but deep ; antennae very short, filiform but stout, with the joints compactly 

 joined, one-half as long as the body, without trace of sensitive patches, first 

 joint longer than the next two combined, third twice as long as wide, longer 

 than the fourth but shorter than the fifth, tenth less than twice as long as 

 wide, eleventh a little shorter than the two preceding together, gradually and 

 aculely pointed from near the middle. Prothorax transverse, one-half wider 

 than long, more than three-fourths wider than the head, the sides angulate 

 and slightly prominent at apical third, where the width is slightly less than 

 at base; sides broadly sinuate in basal two-thirds, rapidly convergent from 

 the lateral angles to the apex, which is truncate and one-half as wide as the 

 base; basal angles only very slightly prominent laterally; disk scarcely 

 visibly and widely impressed transversely near the base, just perceptibly flat- 

 tened along the middle, convi x, rather coarsely, extremely densely punctate, 

 the punctures circular and deep. Scutellum a little wider than long, the apex 

 broadly and transversely truncate. Elytra three-fourths longer than wide, at 

 the humeri one-third wider than the prothorax ; sides convergent from the 



