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Phlepsius neomexicanus, n. sp. — Near P. 

 siiperbus but hirger, and having the valves 

 and pygofei-s in the male greatly produced. 

 Length of male 7 mm. 



Male. — Very closely resembling P. super- 

 bus in form and coloration. e.\-cept that the 

 elytral reticulation is somewhat heavier. 

 DifTersotherwise from that species as follows. 

 Front slightly more than one-fourth longer 

 than broad. Lorae as wide and one-fifth 

 longer than the clypeus. Pronotum consid- 

 erably less than twice the length of the 

 vertex. Plate short and broad, angular 

 posteriorly. Valves twice as long as broad 

 at base, attenuate toward the tips, outer 



Kig. 2. Plilepsius neoniexicamis n. sp.; male genitalia. 



edges provided with fine white hairs. Pygo- 

 fers very long and robust, twice the length 

 of the valves, blunt at tips, provided on 

 lower surface below the tips with a number 

 of short white spines arranged in three 

 longitudinal rows. * 



Described from a single male from San 

 Augustine (Ckll. 2123). This species be- 

 longs in that group of Phlepsius having the 

 head narrower than the pronotum. Its 

 distinct clypeus, large size, and lack of lobate 

 commissural line, separate it from sfatulatus, 

 ovatiis, and excnlius. From the remaining 

 spicies, saperbus, it is distinguished by the 

 above described characters. 



Phlepsius inornatus, n. sp. — Ditiering 

 from all other species of the genus in being 

 entirely destitute of elytral reticulations or 

 other markings. Length of male 6 mm. 



Male. — Head narrower than the pronotum. 

 Face a twelfth wider than long; civpeus 

 one-half longer than broad, somewhat con- 

 stricted before the base, basal suture strongly 

 curved, apex slightly concave i lorae as long 

 and tuo-thirds as broad as clypeus; margin 

 of genae rather slightly incurved below the 

 eye, below this strongly convex, thence 

 slightly incurved to tip of clypeus. Front 

 an eleventh longer than broad, somewhat 

 less than twice the length of the clypeus, 

 broad below, the sides very slightly incurved 

 at the antennae. Disc of the vertex flat, 

 length at middle once and a half that next 

 the eye, width between the eyes once and a 

 half the length. Width of the pronotum 

 two and a third times the length, the length 

 about once and two-thirds that of the vertex, 

 curvature nearly tvvo-fifths of the length, 

 posteriorly irregularly transversely wrinkled. 

 Scutellum and elytral venation normal. 

 Plate not visible, valves two and a half times 

 longer than broad at base, slightly narrowed 

 to apex, blunt at tips, without hairs. Pygo- 

 fers one-half longer than valves, pointed at 



fig. 3. Phlepsius inoniatus n. sp, ; male genitalia. 



tips, their whole outline subtriangular, pro- 

 vided on disc of lower surface with several 

 rather long whitish spines arranged in a 

 single longitudinal row. 



Color very pale yellowish, deeper on the 

 abdomen. Pronotum with five very indis- 

 tinct longitudinal whitish bands. Elytra 

 translucent, pale milky white, with indistinct 

 smokv clouds on the discs of some of the 



