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the eyes; the mesonotal cariiiir more parallel, almost continuous with 

 those of the pronotum. Elytra a little narrower and more slender, 

 with a closer venation at apex. Waives of the female l()np;er than 

 broad, parallel at base within; plates long and strap-shaped, curved 

 upwards and reaching the apex of the pygofers. Sides of the genital 

 segment of the male very oblique, extended to a subacute angle 

 dorsally, the plates long, ovate, obtuse at apex and attaining the tip 

 of the pygofers. 



Described from one female and two male examples taken by me at 

 Cape ^lay and Anglesea, New Jersey; one male taken at Wildwood, 

 New Jersey, by Prof. C. W. Johnson; one female from Anglesea, 

 New Jersey, received from Prof. J. B. Smith; and Mrs. Slosson has 

 sent me a specimen from Florida. This species is very close to florens, 

 but the genital characters are very tlifferent and the apex of the front 

 is more acute with concolorous carinie. 



Genus SCOLOPSELLA Ball. 

 Scolopsella reticulata Ball. 



Dr. E. D. Ball has described both this genus and species in the 

 Proceedings of the Biological Soc. of Wash., Vol. X\'II1, p. 118, 1905. 

 1 have recently received from Prof. J. B. Smith a fine pair of this 

 interesting insect taken in tiie Colorado Desert. Dr. Ball's type 

 was collected in Arizona i\v Prof. F. H. Snow. This insect is dark 

 fuscous varied or tessellated all oxer with pale fulvous brown. It 

 has much the appearance of a Dictyophara, but the long cephalic 

 process is linear or a little spoon-shaped at apex and corrugated along 

 the sides. I would place the genus in our fauna between Dictyophara 

 and Seal ops. 



Genus SCOLOPS Schaum. 



Of this peculiar genus sixteen species have been described from our 

 country, not counting pungens of Germar. which may prove to be 

 identical with some one of our eastern forms described by our later 

 entomologists. Of these, thirteen species are now represented in my 

 collection. For a synoptical arrangement they require a more thorough 

 study than I am now able to give them. 



Genus PHYLLOSCELIS Cerm. 



This genus is readily distinguished b}' its short vertex and foliaceous 

 anterior femora. Two species have been described: 



Phyllo8celi8 pallescens Germ. 



Descrilif'd from Peiinsvlvania, but it is common in New Jersev. The 



