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sutural angle very finely serrate, the truncature nonserrate. In color, the 

 elytra are less a-neous than the other dark parts of the body, and are 

 marked with a large, testaceous, common post-scntellar maculation which 

 gives off a ramus bordering the scutelluni and reaching the base. Legs 

 clothed with long erect whitish hairs. Length. 4.50 mm. 



Southern Pines. North Carolina, August 10, (TYPE). 



This is described from a unique specimen, collected by A. H. Manee. 

 It is totally unlike any of the other known species in coloration and differs 

 in form and sculpture from all of those with truncate elytra. 



H. KXACSii Wickh. McPherson, Kansas, (TYPE). Also known from 

 Brownsville, Texas. 



H. OMOGERA Horn. Cameron County, September. Brownsville, July, Tex- 

 as. Known also from Arizona and Lower California. 



H. DISCOIDEA Lee. Yuma and Aniedee. California. August; Las Cruces, 

 April, and Albuquerque, Xew Mexico ; Winslow and Tucson, Arizona ; St. 

 George and Chadburn "s Eanch, Utah, July. This is a true desert species 

 and is to be beaten from various shrubs. It extends into Mexico and 

 Lower California. 



H. SCABRA Lee. Tehachapi, California ; Spokane, Washington ; Xephi, 

 Utah, June. It is known as well from Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, Xew Mex- 

 ico and Arizona. 



H. PYGM.EA TVolc. n. sp. Form of H. scabra, densely clothed with short, 

 semirecumbent pubescence and sparse, erect, fine, whitish hairs. Head 

 black with bluish tinge, finely rugosely punctate, about one-fourth wider 

 than the prothorax, front feebly biimpressed, eyes large, prominent, an- 

 tennae pale testaceous, club slightly darker, palpi piceous. Prothorax black 

 with bluish tinge, slightly wider than long, subapical constriction strong, 

 sides broadly not very strongly dilated before the middle, posteriorly com- 

 pressed, straight and subparallel to the base, subapical transverse im- 

 pressed line feeble at middle, distinct at sides, basal transverse impressed 

 line nearly obsolete, basal margin elevated, sculpture similar to that of the 

 head, disk with longitudinal area finely, sparsely punctate. Elytra jeneous 

 black, scarcely wider at base than the head, slightly shorter than the ab- 

 domen, humeri moderately prominent, sides subparallel to apical two-fifths, 

 thence rather strongly narrowing to the apices which are separately obtusely 

 rounded and dehiscent at the suture, lateral margins behind the middle 

 and apices distinctly serrate, punctuation moderately coarse and dense, the 

 individual punctures somewhat confluent, pubescence nearly uniform, at 

 apical two-fifths slightly longer and directed laterally but scarcely more 

 dense and not at all conspicuous. Legs black, knees, anterior and middle 

 tibiae (the latter more or less infuscate) and tarsi of all the legs pale 

 testaceous. Body beneath and legs moderately clothed with long whitish 

 hairs, the abdomen rather sparsely pubescent. Length, 2.80 nun. 



