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beneath finely pubescent, breast and tip of abdomen usually deeper 
in color. All tibiae with a spine, the first hind tarsal joint a little 
longer than the rest together. Anterior coxal cavities closed. Length 
3-4 mm.; width 1.8—2.2 mm. 
Type, male, and 2 paratypes (1 male, 1 female), U.S.N.M. No. 
56121. 
Type locality —Armstrong, Iowa, collected by Shimek, from the 
Wickham collection. | 
Other localities —Douglas County, Kans., collected by F. H. Snow; © 
Topeka, Kans., in the Popenoe collection; Oklahoma County, Okla., 
collected by W. Benedict; Champaign, IIl., collected on the flowers of 
Helianthus. 
Remarks.—This species is slightly larger and more convex than 
varicornis and more densely punctate. It is distinguished by its dark 
‘sutural and lateral edges, the characters of the aedeagus, and its 
elytral convexity, as well as its somewhat larger size from the other 
pale species. 
LUPERODES OCULARIS, new species 
PLATE 5, Figure 6 
About 2.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong, pale yellow-brown, with 
the occiput, antennae, often lateral margin of prothorax and sutural 
and marginal edges of elytra, and breast deeper brown;smooth, shining, 
finely punctate; eyes unusually large. 
Head shining, with a few fine rather obsolete punctures on the 
occiput, groove above tubercles deep and extending from eye to eye; 
eyes large, the interocular space less than half the width of the head. 
Antennae extending at least to the middle of the elytra, second and 
third joints together not quite so long as the fourth, the rest subequal; 
the basal joints paler than the outer ones. Prothorax almost rec- 
tangular, with lateral sides nearly straight, not twice as wide as long; 
surface shining, very finely and rather densely punctured. Lateral 
sides often darkened. Scutellum pale. Elytra long, narrow, and 
depressed, with well-marked humeri, and intrahumeral depression; 
surface shining, finely and rather densely punctate. Body beneath 
finely pubescent. Breast usually deeper brown; all tibiae with tiny 
spurs; first hind tarsal joint a little longer than remainder all together. 
Anterior coxal cavities closed. Length 2.5-3 mm.; width 1.2 mm. 
Type, male, and 8 paratypes, the type and 6 paratypes in the 
California Academy of Sciences, 2 paratypes (male and female) in 
National Museum collection, U.S. N. M. No. 55122. 
Type locality —Baboquivari Mountains, Ariz., collected on August 
20, 1924, by O. C. Poling. 
