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LUPERODES NEBRODES, new species 
PuLate 6, Ficure 21 
About 5-6.5 mm. in length, oblong, shining, pale yellow-brown, 
with piceous antennae, except the three basal joints, piceous sutural 
and lateral edges, and piceous breast and often abdomen. 
Head polished, pale reddish yellow, with piceous edges of mouth- 
parts, rounded over the occiput, frontal tubercles slightly produced 
with a groove running obliquely up toward margin of eye on each side; 
interocular space more than half the width of the head. Antennae 
extending to the middle of the elytra, stout, fourth joint nearly twice 
as long as third, three basal joints pale, remainder piceous. Prothorax 
about a third wider than long, widest anteriorly, narrowing gradually 
to base, not very convex, pale reddish yellow, somewhat shiny, finely 
alutaceous. Scutellum piceous. Elytra oblong with small humeral 
prominences and short intrahumeral sulcus; very finely alutaceous and 
finely punctate, feebly shining, pale yellow-brown, with sutural edges 
usually dark in basal half and occasionally widened to form a dark 
sutural vitta not reaching the apex; lateral edges in basal part darkened 
sometimes. Body beneath in males with breast and abdomen dark 
piceous, in the three females examined the breast piceous and abdomen 
pale. Legs pale with tarsal joints edged with dark piceous, sometimes 
hind tibiae becoming dark at apex. Front coxal cavities open, all 
legs spurred, first tarsal joint of hind legs not so long as the rest 
together. Length 5.2-6.9 mm.; width 2.3-2.5 mm. 
Type, male, and 10 paratypes (7 male, 3 female), U.S.N.M. No. 
55114. 
Type locality—Downings Ranch, Terrell County, Tex., May 10, 
1912, collected by J. D. Mitchell. 
Remarks.—In general coloring this species somewhat resembles L. 
californicus Schaeffer, but it is paler and has a quite differently shaped 
and broader prothorax. It belongs to that group of larger species 
having the prothorax wider anteriorly, to which Z. californicus 
belongs. In the three females the coloring of the abdomen is pale; 
in the males it is piceous. 
LUPERODES FLAVONIGER, new species 
PLATE 6, FicurE 18 
About 6 mm. long, slender, narrowly oblong, somewhat shining, 
entirely black except for the reddish-yellow head and three basal 
antennal joimts, sometimes coxae and apices of joints of anterior 
legs deep reddish brown. 
Head smooth, shining, reddish yellow, with the tips of the mouth- 
parts darker. Interocular space over half width of head. Antennae 
