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ferent from any known to me.* My only reason for adhering 

 provisionally to the present identification, is that my single 

 representative is a male; in the female the prothorax is sometimes 

 projiortionally distinctly' smaller than in the male. 



7. S. corticalis Lee. — Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., Y, p. 154; Proe. 

 Acad., rhila., 1852, p. 102 (Anthicus). 



Yery stont, convex, polished throughout, dark brown in color; 

 legs and antenna? paler, the latter infuscate at apex; pubes- 

 cence fine and not very dense, the longer hairs of the el^'tra un- 

 usually long, sub'erect and bristling. Head transverse, convex, 

 truncate, unimpressed, minuteb/ and sparsely punctulate, the 

 eyes large and prominent ; antennae a little longer than the head 

 and prothorax, rather thick at apex. Prothorax distinctly nar- 

 rower than the head, almost as long as wide, minutel}' and re- 

 motely punctate ; sides prominent and rounded anteriofly, sinuate 

 in basal two-thirds, the base margined and almost as wide as the 

 disk. Elytra stout, two-thirds to scarcely more than one-half 

 longer than wide, distinctly more than twice as wide as the pro- 

 thorax in the male, two and one-half times in the female, very ob- 

 tusely but evenly rounded at apex, coarsely and sparsely but some- 

 what feebly punctate. Length 2.25-2.8 mm.; width 0.8-1.15 mm. 



California CYuma). This species is quite distinct from any 

 other in its highly polished, very minutely and remotel}' punctate 

 pronotum and obese form. The male has the anterior trochanters 

 prolonged behind in a very long spiniform process, the interme- 

 diate in a shorter and more lamelliform process, with both the 

 corresponding tibire bent inwardly toward apex The fifth ven- 

 tral unmodified, moderate in length and parabolically rounded be- 

 hind throughout, the copulator}- sheath slender, gradually tapering 

 to a fine point, fiat, not modified dorsall}', excavated beneath and 

 slightly turned upward near its middle when viewed in profile. 

 I obtained three specimens at the locality indicated. 



8. S. feKtiiians n.sp. — Moderately stout, convex, shining, the head and 

 pronotnni ahitaceons, pale brownish -testaceous, the elytral suture and anten- 

 na! apex sliglitly infuscate; pubescence pale and coarse, not very dense, mod- 

 erate in length, the longer hairs of the elytra coarse and inclined. Head 

 transverse, convex, finely and feebly but densely punctate, except toward base, 



* It seems probable that in the case of this species and /H^r/pps, the author 

 has mistaken the subbasal marginal line for the true base of the j)rotliorax. 



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