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long, minutely but strongly, closely punctate ; elytra two-fifths longer than wide, 

 ogivally rounded at apex, finely, rather closely punctured and vaguely subrugose. 

 Alaska (Sitka) and Queen Charlotte Islands (Massett) biarmata Mann. 



Vestiture composed of coarse stiff and suberect squamules. Male. — Slightly smaller 

 than biarmata but similar, oblong-oval, moderately convex, testaceous, feebly 

 shining, the bristles short and abundant ; head rather small, feebly concave, the 

 eyes moderate ; clypeus triangularly reflexed at each side ; prothorax nearly one- 

 half wider than long, the sides just visibly convergent, feebly and evenly arcu- 

 ate ; angles obtuse ; apex subangularly produced and rounded, with the tip very 

 narrowly sinuato-truncate ; punctures moderately fine, deep and quite dense ;. 

 elytra not quite one-half longer than wide ; less than twice as long as thejpro- 

 thorax and somewhat wider, feebly rugulose, minutely and rather closely punc- 

 tate, the punctures smaller than those of the. prothorax ; apex ogivally rounded. 

 Length 1.6 mai. ; width 0.7 mm. Pennsylvania (locality not recorded). 



insolens, sp. nov. 



S — Mate. — oblong oval, rather stout, only moderately convex, polished, dark piceo- 

 testaceous ; head moderate, the eyes small but prominent ; front broadly concave, 

 the clypeus acutely, bitriangularly reflexed ; prothorax one-half wider than 

 long, the sides very feebly convergent, rather strongly, evenly arcuate ; apex 

 subtriangularly prolonged, with the tip minutely emarginate and feebly reflexed ; 

 punctures rather fine but distinct, slightly separated ; lateral margins narrowly 

 reflexed ; elytra short, scarcely a third longer than wide, as wide as the prothorax 

 and four-fifths longer, the apex rather acutely ogival ; surface not very finely,, 

 evenly and rather closely punctate. Length I.4-I.6 mm ; width o 6-0 75 mm. 

 Pennsylvania (Westmoreland Co. ) opalescens, sp. nov. 



Biarmata is misprinted " bicarinatus" in the Henshaw list. 



Brachycis, gen. nov. 



The chief peculiarities of the single type of this genus are the short 

 and suboval form, very short, transversely excavated prosternum and ob- 

 solescent side margin of the prothorax at the rounded and obtuse apical 

 angles. The antennal club is strongly developed, as long as the pre- 

 ceding six joints combined and has the sensitive apical pores small but 

 deep and bristling with white sets, thus leading up to the remarkable 

 Plesiocis which follows. The maxillary palpi are rather slender and 

 acutely pointed, and the anterior tibiae are finely, acutely and almost 

 perpendicularly produced externally in a well-marked process. Sexual 

 characters are wanting in the single specimen before me, which is prob- 

 ably a female: — 



Broad, moderately convex, oblong-oval, piceous, the elytra, legs and antennal shaft 

 paler rufo-tes'aceoui ; body clothed above with stiff pale and erect setre, moder- 

 ate in length and density, uniformly distributed ; head rather small, the eyes mod- 

 erate ; chpeus simple, subiruncate ; prothorax two-thirds wider than long;. 



