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flexed inward for a short distance at the apical angles, and, along the 

 base, forms a margin which becomes very feeble or obsolete along the 

 broad median lobe. The only species in which sexual characters are 

 noticeable is i>npressus, and here the male has a very minute shallow 

 fovea, accompanied by a tuft of loose longer hairs, at each side of the 

 median line and near the middle of the length of abdominal segments 

 two, three and four. V3 ^U^ *H • E ^Y^- i* **> 



HTomarus Lee. •> t>*fc-«^ 



The body in this genus is smaller and relatively shorter than in 

 Loberus, and has a markedly different general habitus. The lateral 

 edges of the prothorax are very finely double, the outer edge more or 

 less distinctly and unevenly undulated, the border flexed inward for a 

 short distance at apex, and, at base, as far as the foveas, where the 

 margin becomes very fine along the basal lobe. There is a fine super- 

 ciliary ridge as in Loberus, but the antenna; differ in having the basal 

 joint of the club about as large as the second. I have not noticed 

 any distinctive sexual characters in the male. The three following 

 are the only species known to me at present : — 



Body subglabrous, the head and pronotum clothed sparsely with very short subdecum- 

 bent hairs, the elytra glabrous, each with three discal and one marginal series of 

 very widely spaced erect sete ; sides of the prothorax very obsoletely undu- 

 lated 2 



Body clothed throughout with coarse, sparse, subdecumbent hairs in addition to the 

 series of elytral setae ; sides of the prothorax more strongly and quite distinctly 

 undulated 3 



2 — Body rather narrowly oval, convex, polished, the anterior part feebly alutaceous, 

 flavo-testaceous to blackish throughout, the elytra broadly, suffusedly paler toward 

 the humeri and in a transverse band interrupted at the suture, near apical third ; 

 antennae but little longer than the head and prothorax, the club well developed ; 

 head and pronotum finely but strongly, rather closely punctured, the punctures 

 finer toward the sides of the latter, which is three-fifths to two-thirds wider than 

 long and much narrower than the elytra, with the sides parallel and arcuate and 

 the apex very nearly as wide as the base ; elytra two and two-thirds to three 

 times as long as the prothorax, subinflated and widest at two-fifths, gradually 

 narrowed to the acute apex, the humeri feebly denticulate externally and ob- 

 liquely exposed at base ; erect setae, moderately long and distinct, the punctures 

 fine and sparse, with series of rounded areolae shining through the translucent 

 chitin from the under surface. Length I.25-I.6 mm.; width 0.65-0.72 mm. 

 New York and Rhode Island to Iowa and Mississippi pulchellus Lee. 



Body and antennae nearly similar to the preceding, the former rather shorter and less 

 acute behind, pale flavo-testaceous in color, the head and pronotum more aluta- 

 ceous, the elytra polished and almost similarly maculate, with the erect seta; very 



