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expressing the opinion that the reversal was unnecessary, 

 and that the order proposed is far less scientific than that 

 published in the revision above referred to. 



Apocellus brevipennis Cas. — Five specimens of this species 

 were recently taken, also at Galveston, Texas; it was orig- 

 inally described from a single specimen from Louisiana. 



PHKEOPTERUS Mots. 



P. filicomis *>• S P- — Kather robust, depressed, black throughout; tro- 

 chanters slightly paler, dark rufous; legs piceous-black; tibiae much paler and 

 rufous toward tip; tarsi rufous; palpi fuscous; antennas black throughout; 

 pubescence rather long, very dense, subrecumbent and conspicuous, fusco- 

 cinereous in color; legs densely pubescent; tibia? abruptly nearly glabrous 

 in the apical fifth or sixth; tarsi glabrous, joints finely spinulose at the apices; 

 shining. Head as long as wide, depressed, trausversely and rather strongly 

 impressed between the antenna?, deeply and widely bii'mpressed between 

 the eyes; surface finely and rather densely punctate; ocelli very minute, 

 round, distant, on a line slightly in advance of the posterior margins of the 

 eyes; the latter very prominent; fourth joint of the maxillary palpi slightly 

 more than twice as long as the third, the latter not three times as long 

 as wide; antenna? very long, slender and filiform, not in the least iucrassate, 

 two-thirds as long as the body; second joint much shorter than the third, 

 joints three to ten subequal in length, much elongated, eleventh slightly 

 longer, fusiform. Prolhorax widest slightly before the mi:ldle; sides thence 

 very feebly convergent, feebly and evenly arcuate to the obtuse and rather 

 broadly rounded anterior angles and somewhat strongly convergent, rather 

 strongly and evenly incurvate throughout to the basal angles, which are 

 nearly right and not at all rounded; base broadly and extremely feebly 

 arcuate throughout, three-fourths as wide as the disk and distinctly narrower 

 than the apex; the latter transversely truncate, feebly excurvate toward the 

 apical angles; disk scarcely one-third wider than long, transversely, rather 

 strongly and perfectly evenly convex; having at the middle of each side, 

 a very deep punctiform impression; flanks thence to the basal angles very 

 abruptly and strongly declivous; surface very finely, evenly and densely 

 punctate; punctures perforate. Elytra at base slightly wider than the pro- 

 notum; sides moderately divergent; humeral and apical angles very broadly 

 rounded; together broadly arcuate behind with the inner angles abruptly 

 and rather strongly rounded; disk nearly one-third longer than wide, slightly 

 more than twice as long as the pronotum, broadly and feebly convex, rather 

 coarsely, very evenly and densely puuctate; punctures impressed, slightly 

 more distant than those of the pronotum. Abdomen very short behind the 

 elytra, much wider than long, subalutaceous, very minutely, evenly and 

 rather closely punctate. Legs rather slender; first joint of the posterior 



