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just behind the middle, abruptly, strongly constricted and tubulate at apex, 

 the latter but slightly more than one-third as wide as the disk ; sides broadly 

 arcuate; base transverse, broadly, deeply bisinuate, the median lobe strongly, 

 narrowly rounded ; disk minutely but distinctly, remotely punctate, abruptly 

 becoming obliquely and coarsely punctato-rugose at the sides and beneath. 

 Scutellum small, transversely lunate. Elytra but slightly longer than wide, 

 less than one-half longer than the prothorax and distinctly narrower ; out- 

 line narrowly parabolic, the sides rapidly convergent ; surface broadly undu- 

 lated ; striae fine but deep, finely but distinctly punctate, the intervals flat, 

 three or four times as wide as the striae, each with a single series of minute 

 distant punctures which become more visible laterally ; striae coarse on the 

 apical concave declivity, the intervals becoming there acutely prominent. 

 Under surface strongly, closely sculptured. Legs stout ; femora strongly 

 punctate. Length 2.7 mm. ; width 1.4 mm. 



Texas (San Antonio). Mr. Wickham. 



Closely allied to undulatus, but differing in its shorter broader 

 and more rapidly cuneate form, more strongly punctate elytra! 

 striae and smaller size. The punctuation of the femora is less 

 rugose than in undulatus. The tooth of the anterior femora is 

 alone distinct, and the anterior tibiae are scarcely at all prominent 

 within in the male, though bent and slightly narrowed toward 

 base. A single specimen, apparently male. 



There is a specimen from Honduras before me which very closely 

 resembles cuneatus, but the anterior tibiae are more abruptly swollen 

 or subtuberculate within at the middle. 



After the revision of our Scaphidiidae (ante p. 510) had been 

 printed, I discovered by chance that Mr. Reitter had described 

 several American species of this family in 1880 (Verhandl. Naturf. 

 Ver. Bruon, XVIII, p. 35, et seq.). This paper is at present in- 

 accessible to me, but the species are : Scaphidium antennatum 

 (Texas), Cyparium suhstriatum (Alabama), Scaphisoma impunc- 

 tata (Missouri), and S. Isevis (Nordam.). The last two are proba- 

 bly allied to obesula, carolinae and arkansana, and there is doubt- 

 less some synonymy involved which I shall attempt to make known 

 at a future time. 



The Californian species published by Schmidt (Ent. Nach., XYI, 

 1890, p. 51) under the name Saprinus sulcatulus, is identical with 

 scissus Lee. in every character mentioned in the description. Several 

 years ago I sent a small series of this species — which is one of the 



