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Body nearly similar to the preceding but shorter and more broadly oval, strongly con- 

 vex, shining, rufo-testaceous throughout, the pubescence long, coarse, rather 

 abundant and conspicuous, ashy in color ; head smaller, notably narrower than 

 the apex of the prothorax, the antennae similar to those of humeralis but still 

 stouter, and with the third joint very much shorter than the next two combined ; 

 prothorax similar but only a little more than one-half wider than long and with 

 the punctures coarse, deep and densely crowded ; elytra sensibly wider than the 

 prothorax and two and a half times as long, the sides slightly arcuate toward 

 base, the apex gradually, rather narrowly rounded, one-half longer than wide, 

 the punctures rather smaller than those of the pronotum and somewhat sparse, 

 moderately coarse toward base, especially externally, gradually fine posteriorly ; 

 under surface finely, very densely punctate ; legs rather stouter, the tarsi short 

 but slender, the last joint of the posterior as long as the first three combined. 

 Length 2.75 mm ; width 1.4 mm. Virginia pubescens, sp. nov. 



In no individual of the Tetratomini that I have seen, is there the 

 faintest trace of serial arrangement of the always conspicuous elytral 

 punctures at any part of the surface ; the placing of Tetratoma near 

 Triplax, by Redtenbacher, is an unaccountable error for this, as well as 

 a multitude of other reasons, besides the radically different formation 

 of the tarsi and palpi. 





