A NEW SPECIES OF PITYOGENES.* 
J. M. Swatne. 
Pityogenes hopkinst u. sp. Description of the female 
type. Length, 2 mm.; width, .75 mm.; color, black with the 
elytra dark reddish brown on the caudal two-thirds, the legs 
and antennae piceous. 
The head has the front convex, moderately, closely, rather 
roughly punctured, with a subcircular, deep, median impres- 
sion behind the epistoma, in diameter about equal to the 
width of the eyes, the sides of the pit clothed with minute pu- 
bescence, which forms a dense mat over a paler area between 
the pit and the epistomal margin; the epistoma fringed with 
long pale yellow hairs; the remainder of the front with 
slender hairs; the vertex and genae shining and transversely 
finely aciculate; the eyes entire; the antennal club sub- 
circular with two strongly marked, very broadly arcuate 
sutures. 
The pronotum slightly longer than wide, rather regularly 
projectile-shaped, faintly constricted before the middle; 
widest near the caudal margin; narrowly rounded in front; 
the cephalic half rather coarsely asperate in subregular 
rows with the apical margin serrate; coarsely, rather closely 
and roughly punctured behind, the punctures of varying 
size; with a narrow, moderately elevated median carina 
extending caudad of the summit and an irregular smooth 
space on each side behind the middle; the caudal border very 
finely margined; the pubescence erect, rather sparse, mod- 
erately long about the sides but much less than one-half the 
length of the pronotum. 
The elytra are as wide as the pronotum, subparallel, 
faintly arcuate for nearly three-fourths the length, then 
broadly rounded behind as viewed from above; with the 
*A Contribution from the Entomological Branch, Department of Agri-_ 
culture, Ottawa, Canada. ; 
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