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impressed at the base on each side, and with a posterior 

 median fovea. Legs long. The ? is described by Casey as 

 B. infinita. 



Habitat. Louisiana, Texas. 



B. TEXANA, Casey. Uniformly pale reddish-brown, polished, 

 pubescence short, not appressed. Length, 1.3 mm. Plate 

 IX., Fig. 59. 



Head small, impunctate, frontal margin nearly straight, 

 sides from the eye more convergent anteriorly than usual; 

 eyes large, prominent, occipital fovea? in a line anterior to 

 the eyes, deep, three times more distant from one another than 

 is either from the eye. Frontal foveas small, situated inside a 

 conspicuous inter- antennal depression. Anteiinee half the 

 length of the body, first and second joints cylindrical, the 

 second smaller; the following joints to the seventh are nar- 

 rower, cylindrical, gradually shorter, the eighth square, ninth 

 and tenth obconical, rapidly increasing in width. The eleventh 

 is oblong-ovate, thicker and equal in length to the three pre- 

 ceding. Prothorax wider than long, and in the middle a little 

 wider than the head including the eyes; sides convergent 

 anteriorly, emarginate posteriorly, disk very convex, lateral 

 foveas one-third from the base, impressed at the sides, median 

 foveas very near the base which has a row of oblong foveol^. 

 £lyira as long as the head and prothorax, apical width one- 

 fifth greater than the sutural length. Humeral width one- 

 fourth greater than that of the prothorax. Sides just visibly 

 arcuate, disk reticulate, slightly convex, the lines, five, strongly 

 arcuate, convergent, abbreviated one-fourth from the tip; 

 sutural lines very sHghtly arcuate, rather far apart. 5 abdo- 

 men with only the basal segments visible from above, nearly 

 as long as wide, margin broad, strongly retuse, convergent 

 posteriorly, the disk more convex, behind impunctured. 

 Carinee very short, including two-fifths of the entire width. 

 Legs long, posterior tibias slightly arcuate. 



Habitat. West Texas, New Mexico. 



