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T. LONGiPALPUs, Lee. Yellowish-brown, impunctate, sub- 

 depressed, pubescence long, erect. Plate VII., Figs. 25 and 26. 



Head., including the eyes, as long as wide, tempora slightly 

 arcuate, convergent, not prominent, longer than the eyes,, 

 which are prominent, coarsely facetted, lateral margin straight 

 between the eyes and the frontal tubercle, edge rounded. 

 Frontal tubercles quadrate, separated by a fine impressed 

 line prolonged backward, disk transversely convex, longitu- 

 dinally not so; half-way between the eye and the frontal 

 tubercle on each side is a sharp tubercle pointing outward. 

 The declivous frontal surface and the concave clvpeus are pet- 

 pendicular to the vertex; labium three times wider than long, 

 not emarginate. Palpi with the second joint arcuate, clavate 

 beyond the middle, extending from its insertion to the pos- 

 terior margin of the eye. Third joint more than half as long, 

 cultriform, widest at the base, fourth securiform, shortly 

 pedunculate, widest at middle and as long as the second. 

 AntcnncB longer than the head and prothorax, first joint obcon- 

 ical, flattened above, twice as long as the second, which is 

 oval and not so thick; third to eighth subequal, the fifth being 

 'but slightly stronger and the eighth the smallest; ninth glob- 

 ular, twice as wide as the eighth, tenth larger, globular, 

 eleventh ovate, twice as long as the tenth. Prothorax widest 

 near the middle, slightly wider than long, convex, base double 

 the width of the neck, median fovea small and rounded. Lat- 

 eral foveas situated in shallow longitudinal impressions, no 

 intermediate ones. Elytra depressed, one-half longer than 

 the prothorax, the distance across the prominent shoulders 

 being the same. They are broadest one-third from the tip, 

 disk slightly broadly arcuate at the sides, sutural lines deep, 

 discal lines abbreviated near the middle. Shoulders rounded, 

 prominent, the declivous lateral portions punctured. Abdomen 

 narrowly margined, segments subequal, the first longest, one- 

 third as long as wide. The fourth is also longer than its 

 neighbors. Legs with the third tarsal joint longer than the 

 second. 



Habitat. United States east of the Rocky Mountains. 



