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Elongate, convex, shining black. Vestiture scant, inconspicuous. 

 Elytral punctures dual, strong and dense. Epistoma emarginate 

 at middle, with a small denticle each side. Length 2.02 mm. 

 Indiana, Ohio and Alabama falli Blatch. 



Broad, oval; brown in color; punctures dual. Vestiture abundant, 

 conspicuous. Prothoracic margin serrate. Epistoma deficxod at 



middle. Length 2.50 mm. Linn Co., Oregon serricollis Dury 



4 — Elongate; smaller and more depressed than falli. Piceous in color. 

 Allied to that species. Length 2 mm. Indiana and Alabama. 



confusus Blatch. 



Elongate, cylindrical, black. Elytra with coarse, deep, single punc- 

 tures. Vestiture short and bristling. Epistoma of male with 

 porrect tubercles. Near hystricula Csy., but differs in the larger 

 head and coarser punctures. Length 2 mm. Umatilla Co., Oregon. 



cylindricus Dury 



Elongate, cylindrical, piceous. Vestiture fine and subdecumbent. 

 Punctures dual. Epistoma truncate, feebly angulate each side in 

 front of eyes. Length 2 mm. Delaware Co., Penn.. ..wenzeli Dury 



Elongate, roimded in form. Color castaneous. Punctures single. 

 Epistoma emarginate at middle, with widely separated blunt 

 angles each side in the male. Squarely truncate in the female. 

 Length 1-75 mm New York City juHchi Dury 



Oblong, oval. Epistoma strongly produced into triangular processes. 

 Prothorax with subparallel sides. Length 2 mm. Key West, Fla. 



floridae Dury 



Short and stout. Piceous, shining. Vestiture sparse and inconspicu- 

 ous, arranged without order. Epistoma reflexed and produced into 

 two small denticles at middle. Length 1.75 mm. Dunedin, Fla. 



blatchleyi Dury 



Verj' broad, oval. Brown in color. Vestiture of conspicuous yellow 

 bristles. Epistoma prolonged into flat triangular processes each 

 side, deeply emarginate between them. Length 2 mm. Framing- 

 ham, Mass frost! Dury 



5 — Elongate, oval. Pico-castaneous, shining. Vestiture minute and 

 sparse. Epistoma emarginate at middle, with blunt processes 

 each side. Length 1.40 mm. Dunedin, Fla ..pusillus Dury 



ORTHOCIS, Casey 



Orthocis longida, n. sp. 



Form very narrow and elongate. Shining, rufo piceous in I 

 color. Punctures coarse, legs and antennae pale. Head with 

 the clypeal margin slightly angulate, each side in front of eye 



