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Telmatophilus Heer. 

 This genus is widely extended in range through all the palasarctic 

 and nearctic provinces, but has not yet occurred on the Pacific coast 

 of America. We have but one species, as follows : — 



Piceous-black, rather shining, densely and deeply but finely punctured throughout 

 above and beneath, the pubescence short, ashy, the elytra in addition with im- 

 perfect single series of slightly longer hairs ; antennre and legs rufous, the former 

 scarcely as long as the head and prothorax ; eyes convex and prominent ; pro- 

 thorax barely two-fifths wider than long, the sides parallel, evenly arcuate, the 

 edges finely serrulate and single ; apex broadly arcuate and as wide as the base, 

 which is broadly bisinuate ; basal angles acute, the apical obtusely rounded ; 

 disk feebly convex, finely and very densely punctate ; elytra but little wider 

 than the prothorax in the male, and less than three times as long, relatively 

 larger in the female, obtusely rounded at tip, the humeri not exposed at 

 base ; punctures not coarser and much less dense than those of the pronotum ; 

 legs stout. Length 2.4-2.7 mm. ; width 0.9-1.0 mm. Canada, Massachusetts, 

 New York, Iowa and Colorado (Greeley) americanus Lee. 



The male is a little shorter and stouter than the female and has a 

 deep oval pit at the apex of the fifth ventral segment, and the hind 

 tibia? strongly dentate externally near the base ; the mesosternum is 

 very feebly concave between the coxa?. The European cartas, which 

 resembles americanus very closely, has a very feeble impression at the 

 middle of the fifth ventral of the male, and the hind tibia? of that sex 

 are much more feebly and obtusely swollen externally near the base. 



Loberus Lee. 



This genus appears to be exclusively American and will prove to be 

 tolerably rich in species. The resemblance to certain crepidoderid 

 Chrysomelida? has been alluded to by LeConte and Horn, and is suf- 

 ficiently striking, the body is however narrower than in the great ma- 

 jority of Crepidodera?. The broad and shallow transverse depression 

 extends between the pronotal foveas but is semi-independent of them. 

 The species before me may be defined as follows : — 



Basal depression of the pronotum broadly impressed and transverse, almost adjacent to 

 the basal margin ; elytral margins very narrow and equal 2 



Basal depression more deeply and acutely impressed and somewhat anteriorly arcu- 

 ate, being more distant from the basal margin on the median line ; elytral margins 

 more broadly reflexo-explanate at basal third 4 



2 — Punctures of the elytral series rather coarse, each bearing a moderately long and 

 very distinct recurved silvery hair, the intervals glabrous and impunctate. 

 Body elongate-oval, convex, polished, dark rufo-testaceous to blackish in color, 

 the head and pronotum sparsely pubescent ; antennae testaceous, with the club 



