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Elytra black or piceous, each with two pale spots 8l 



Elytra black throughout, the apex broadly pale in fourth or fifth, the pale area di- 

 vided by the rather broadly black suture to the apical angles ; body very small, 

 broadly oval, the head, prothorax and legs throughout pale testaceous ; prothorax 

 short and transverse, finely punctulate, the sides nearly continuous, strongly con- 

 vergent and arcuate ; elytra barely as long as wide, very finely, evenly and not 

 densely punctate, the pubescence short but pale and coarse. Length 1.2 mm. ; 



width 0.85 mm. Locality not indicated dichrous Muls. 



Elytra black, with a broad apical red area which is not divided by the suture ; legs 



red throughout 83 



Elytra black or brown throughout, the apex not, or only very narrowly, paler. . . .84 



Elytra pale, with a black spot or design 86 



81 — Form very narrowly oblong and parallel, black, shining, the legs pale ; pronotum 

 pale, infuscate toward the middle ; punctures fine and sparse, the pubescence 

 short, suberect and quite conspicuous ; elytra each with two large pale spots, the 

 anterior at basal third the larger, extending somewhat obliquely and becoming 

 subattenuate toward the humeral callus, the posterior at apical fourth and obli- 

 quely suboval. Length 1.6 mm.; width 0.9 mm. Florida (Enterprise) and 



Louisiana 4 • t ieriiatus Lee. 



Form broadly oval 82 



82 — Prothorax black, faintly piceous toward the apical angles, the sides nearly continu- 

 ous, strongly convergent and feebly arcuate ; elytra longer than wide, finely and 

 not very closely punctate, each with a moderate subquadrate spot just before the 

 middle, nearer the suture than the side, and another, smaller and reniform, in 

 the same line at apical fourth ; apex scarcely paler ; pubescence rather coarse 

 and distinct. Length 1. 7 mm. ; width 1. 15 mm. Pennsylvania. 



myrmedon Muls. 

 Prothorax pale rufo-testaceous throughout ; head and legs similar in coloration, the 

 hind femora blackish, except at tip ; abdomen pale, blackish toward base ; body 

 stout, oblong-oval ; prothorax short and transverse, finely but distinctly, rather 

 closely punctate, the sides slightly discontinuous, moderately convergent, evenly 

 and strongly arcuate ; elytra subquadrate, as long as wide, very obtuse at apex, 

 black, finely but strongly, evenly and not very closely punctured, each with a 

 very oblique pale line from anterior two-fifths and inner third to and enveloping 

 the entire humeri, subdivided near its middle point, and a transverse broader spot 

 at apical fourth or fifth, narrowly and equally distant from the suture and side 

 margin, the apex very narrowly pale; pubescence coarse, suberect and distinct. 

 Length 1.7 mm. ; width 1. 2 mm. North Carolina (Asheville). 



adulans, sp. nov. 

 Prothorax yellow, darker in front of the scutellum ; elytra piceous, a narrow apical 

 border and two spots, one small and rounded in front of the middle, nearer the 

 suture than the side, and the other transverse and slightly sinuous, at apical 

 third, touching the side but not the suture [not so drawn in the figure], pale; 

 legs yellow. Length [1.25- 1.5 mm]. Southern New Jersey . liebeckl Horn 

 83 — Prothorax black, with the apex narrowly, and the apical angles more broadly, 

 testaceous, the sides not quite continuous, moderately convergent and broadly 



