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Elytra finely and more uniformly variegated with black, cinereous and fulvous hairs 

 throughout ; body narrowly and evenly ellipsoidal, rather small in size. Length 

 5.0-6.7 mm.; width 2.35-3.0 mm. Idaho (Cceur d'Alene), Nevada (Reno) and 

 California (San Francisco and Monterey) talpinus Mann. 



7 — Elytra black, rufo-piceous toward the humeri, where there is a small post-humeral 

 area of fulvous pubescence, elsewhere marmorate subtransversely with black and 

 cinereous pubescence ; body rather small and stout, the abdomen very densely 

 clothed with white hairs, the black marginal spots very small ; male with the 

 third and fourth segments foveolate. Length 6.5-6.9 mm.; width 2.9-3.25 mm. 

 Arizona ; [rnucoreus Lee] carnivorus Fabr. 



Elytra uniform in color and uniformly clothed with a mixture of black and paler 

 hairs ; fourth ventral alone foveolate in the male, at least in 77//, inu* 8 



8 — Elytra piceous, uniformly and rather sparsely clothed with a mixture of black and 

 fulvo-cinereous hairs in almost equal proportions, dense whitish pubescence to- 

 ward the sides of the pronotum not maculate at base ; body elongate. Length 

 5.S-8.9 mm.; width 2.4-3 6 mm. Indiana, Florida, California and Guadalupe 

 Island vulpinus Fabr. 



Elytra black, sparsely clothed with black hairs, among which longer yellowish-ciner- 

 eous hairs are uniformly but sparsely intermingled ; densely pubescent lateral area 

 of the pronotum with a small rounded dark spot at base ; body stouter and more 

 oval. Length 7.5-8.5 mm.; width 3.5-3.75 mm. New Jersey, Virginia (Fort 

 Monroe) and Iowa (Keokuk) frischi Kug. 



9 — Pubescence throughout above and on the abdomen uniform and yellowish-cinere- 

 ous, somewhat sparse, not concealing the sculpture, the abdomen without trace 

 of quasi-denuded dark spots at any part ; body very elongate, subparallel, the pro- 

 notum with two pronounced basal impressions and the elytra with feebly im- 

 pressed longitudinal lines extending almost to the base. Length 8.9 mm.; width 

 width 3.6 mm. Indiana elongatus Lee. 



Pubescence, thoracic impressions and elytral lines as in elongatus, the vestiture of the 

 abdomen even less conspicuous and dark fulvous in color, with two marginal and 

 two discal series of rounded subdenuded spots, the two male foveolse small ; legs 

 not annulated ; body shorter and less parallelo-subcylindric than in elongatus. 

 Length 7.5 mm.; width t,.^ mm. Florida (Key West) cadaverinus Fabr. 



10 — Elytra densely cinereo-pubescent in basal two-fifths or more, each with three 

 small nigro-pubescent points in transverse posteriorly arcuate series at or near 

 basal fourth ; male with two ventral foveolre II 



Elytra black, pale and fulvo-pubescent at base for a short distance, not maculate ; 

 male with two ventral foveolic 12 



Elytra piceous, uniform in color and vestiture throughout ; male with a single ventral 

 foveolaon the fourth segment as in vulpinus 1 3 



II — Pronotum closely punctured throughout and uniformly clothed with blackish 

 hairs, with small clusters of yellowish-cinereous hairs interspersed ; basal pubes- 

 cent area of the elytra not extending to the middle and sharply delimited, the 

 hairs of the remainder being entirely black. Length 6.8-7.7 mm.; width 2.75- 

 3.4 mm. United States and Europe lardarius Linn. 



Pronotum finely and sparsely punctured toward the middle, clothed uniformly through- 

 out with longer fulvo-cinereous pubescence, the elytra rufo-piceous throughout, 



