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long as wide. A poorly defined fovea on first ventral segment 

 Length 2.25 mm. One male specimen. Hiiachuca Mountains, 

 Arizona. Miller Canon. This species comes nearest vitula 

 Mann, but is very distinct. Type in collection of H. W. Wenzel. 



Cis frosti, n. sp. 



Brown; very broadly oval, convex, densely punctured, 

 closely covered with short yellow bristles. Head flat, with 

 shallow forea in middle, clypeus prolonged each side into two 

 flat triangular processes, rather deeply emarginate between 

 them. Prothorax wider than long, apex slightly emarginate 

 at middle and prominent, projecting over the head. Front 

 angles blunt, but -very prominent. Side margins broad and 

 strong. Base feebly margined. A shallow impressed longi- 

 tudinal line at middle. Elytra very broad and ogivally 

 rounded to apex. Length 2 mm. Width .09 mm. Orono, 

 Maine. This is the broadest species for its length I have 

 seen. I have but one male, presented by Mr. Chas. A. Frost, 

 Framingham, Mass., to whom the species is dedicated. 



Cis floridae, n. sp. 



Form oblong oval. Vestiture fine and long. Epistoma 

 produced into two triangular processes, deeply emarginate 

 between them. Prothorax with sides subparallel, converging 

 towards apex, which is produced into two porrect, flat, rdther 

 broad, gradual processes. Punctures fine and moderately 

 dense. Elyti-a slightly over one and one-half times as long as 

 wide. Punctures coarser than those of prothorax. First 

 ventral with a round fovea on posterior half. The female has 

 epistoma and prothorax simple and lacks the ventral fovea. 

 Color pale castaneous. Length 2 mm. Key West, Florida. 

 A pair only. 



Cis serricollis, n. sp. 



Broad, oval in form. Color dark brown. Vestiture of 

 short bristles, conspicuous, arranged without order. Head with 

 epistoma subtruncate in front, reflexed each side and narrowly 

 deflexed at middle. Front flat and sparsely punctured. Pro- 



