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posterior margin is slightly produced, not emarginate laterally, 

 semicircularly emarginate at middle between the oblique 

 ridges; in the middle of this segment is a U-shaped elevation. 

 The second segment is very long and narrowly produced, 

 depressed along the base, with the usual large, punctured, 

 median fovea. The sides of the prolongation are broadly 

 emarginate and obliquely narrowly depressed on the surface, 

 the middle of the segment from the basal fovea to the tip very 

 high, elevated, flat above and as broad as one-fourth of the 

 base of the segment, overreaching the last segments perpen- 

 dicularl}-. Legs and antennae presenting no peculiarities. 

 Habitat. Atlantic States. 



B. ULKEi, BrendeJ. Brownish-black, punctulate, pubescence 

 short, elytra, legs and antennas red, palpi yellow. Length, 

 i.S mm. Plate VIII. , Fig. 54. 



Head, exxluding the eyes, wider at base than the frontal 

 margin, occipital fovete open toward the eye, a faint line con- 

 nectino- them with the frontal tubercles. Antcniicv slender, 

 half as long as the entire body, first joint very strong, second 

 half as thick, obconical, twice as long as wide, third to eighth 

 subequal, eighth quadrate; ninth and tenth obconical, together 

 as long as the three preceding; eleventh oblong, equal in 

 length to the ninth and tenth together. Prothorax as long as 

 broad, widest through the middle, polished; base at the sides 

 behind the lateral foveae slightly transversely impressed. 

 Abdomen punctured, margins of the first segment slightly 

 divergent, carinas visible, less than one-third of the segmental 

 width apart. Elytra one-half longer than the prothorax, 

 width at the shoulders the same, at the tip one-fourth broader; 

 disk punctulate, sides very slightly arcuate, the discal and 

 sutural hnes parallel, deeply impressed, originating in deep 

 basal punctures. 6 abdominal basal segment produced from 

 the lateral margin to the middle, the outlines oblique, converg- 

 ing, the middle semicircularly emarginate, leaving on each 

 side of the emargination a long spinous process. Disk from 

 the basal angles broadly, and towards the spines narrowly 



