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The head, pronotum, and elytra especially finely shagreened in the 

 surface and therefore with feeble or dull gloss; the head a little nar- 

 rower than pronotum, rather coarsely and densely punctated, deeper than 

 in atricilla ; antennae a little longer than head and pronotum together, 

 feebly thickened aistally, bristle-haired, their first three joints slen- 

 der, the third shorter than the second, the fourth as long as broad, the 

 middle ones feebly, the next-last more strongly transverse, amply 1^ times 

 as broad as long, distal joint hardly as long as the two preceding joints 

 together. Pronotum is much narrower than elytra, a little broader than 

 long, slightly narrowing posteriorly, with anteriorly feebly rounded sides, 

 slightly conves, finely and rather densely punctated, with a suggestion 

 of a flat impression posteriorly before the scutellum; the elytra rather 

 flat, Is times as long as pronotum, very densely and rather finely punc- 

 tated, their posterior margin inside the outer corners distinctly incur- 

 ved; abdomen somewhat glistening, its first three free dorsal joints with 

 fine and isolated, the two following with simple punctation. L. 3-3.5 mm. 



The difference between o and ^ is about as in the preceding species, 

 but less distinctly aeveloped. 



It lives exclusively on the ocean strand, and is found under seaweed 

 and other alluvium, is distributed like the preceding species and at most 

 places in this country more frequent than same. 



Third Series. 



The species beloaging to t!ie snb^ienera of this series are all distin- 

 guished by this, that the firai. /our free dorsal Joints of abdomen are 



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