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Lindorus, gen. now 



The single species is represented before me by two examples, kindly 

 communicated by Dr. Blaisdell, and one taken by myself in Sonoma 

 County, in 1885, which is apparently prior to its introduction by the 

 Agricultural Department. 



Broadly oval, pale rufo-testaceous throughout, except the entire elytra, which are 

 black with feeble reneous lustre ; pronotum frequently with a transverse piceous 

 cloud just before the middle, the sides but feebly convergent, slightly arcuate and 

 distinctly discontinuous, the punctures fine and rather sparse ; elytral punctures 

 slightly stronger but not very close-set, the pubescence unevenly directed. 

 Length 2.2-2.7 mm.; width 1. 5-2.0 mm. California (Coronado to Sonoma); 

 \toowoombce Blackb ] lophantha? Blaisd- 



COCCIDULINI. 



A single remarkable genus, apparently confined to the palsearctic 

 and nearctic provinces, demands tribal separation. The body in Coc- 

 cidula is elongate-oval and moderately convex, pubescent throughout, 

 with the eyes, antennae, palpi and metacoxal plates as in Rhyzobiini, 

 and the abdomen composed of six segments, the sixth large and dis- 

 tinct. The mentum is not impressed, as it is in Rhyzobiini, the epi- 

 stoma truncate, with coriaceous margin, the presternum tumid in the 

 middle anteriorly, becoming flat and rather widely separating the coxae 

 at base, bicarinate, the carinae coalescent before the apex upon the sum- 

 mit of the tumidity, the hypomera simple; epipleurae narrow, hori- 

 zontal, more finely margined within, becoming obsolete at the fourth 

 abdominal segment, the metacoxal plates about half as long as the 

 segment, the legs perfectly free, rather stout, with the claws feebly 

 bifid within at some distance from the apex. The prothorax is nar- 

 rowed at base and very feebly sinuate at apex. 



Coccidula Kugel. 

 The single species before me resembles the European very closely 

 and may be thus briefly defined : — 



Elongate ; body and head black, the presternum, legs, abdomen, except in the 

 middle at base, and pronotum, testaceous, the latter with a small and transverse 

 dark area at apical fourth ; elytra testaceous, arcuately black at base and along 

 the sides to behind the middle, also with a common transversely oval sutural 

 black spot at two-thirds, the punctures rather coarse, deep, close-set and uneven 

 in size, the larger tending vaguely to lineal arrangement at some parts of the 

 disk; pubescence very short, almost even. Length 3.0 mm.; width 1.4mm. 

 Michigan (Detroit) lepida Lee. 



