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Melinna elongata n. sp. 



Resembling M. modesta Uhler, male, in form, but nar- 

 rower than any other species yet described, pale chest- 

 nut-brown, sometimes fulvous, distinctly pubescent 

 Head narrow, eyes large, black, far apart, face vertical 

 vertex very short, minutely punctate, antenna? stout, lon^' 

 extending to the base of the cuneus, the second joint al- 

 most as long as the third and fourth united, the fourth 

 piceous. Rostrum pale luteous, darker at tip, reaching 

 to the posterior coxa.. Pronotum short, moderately con- 

 vex, closely punctate, clothed with erect, yellowish pu- 

 bescence, breast paler. Legs pale honey-yellow, the 

 cox« almost white, with a brown spot above each Scu 

 tellum very moderately convex, pubescent, closely punc- 

 tate. Cormm, clavus and cuneus unevenly punctate 

 clothed with erect yellowish pubescence, the costal areJ 

 nearly straight, wide, pale luteous, the cuneus mostly 

 rufous. Venter pale fulvous, polished, pubescent, with 

 bundles of longer hairs at tip. Membrane with a large 

 dusky spot at tip. ^ 



Length to tip of venter, 2-2^ mm. Width of prono- 

 tum, y^-T mm. ^ 



One specimen was taken near Cape St. Lucas bv Mr 

 John Xanthus; another was secured at the Calmalli 

 mines in April (No. 759), by Mr. C. D. Haines. It in- 

 habits also Texas, Arizona, California and Florida. 



Megaccelum catulum n. sp. 



Dull testaceous, mixed with gray pubescence, and 

 marked with black, oval, broader than the related species 

 of this genus and the surface more opaque. Head blunt, 

 vertical, dull testaceous, the vertex a Httle depressed and 

 sloping forward, incised on the middle, the front almost 

 vertical tuscous at base, marked before the base with 

 ^'T:^,lTr' '""' b-wn punctures which converge 



' ' June 20, 1894. 



