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Pale yellowish testaceous; thorax fuscous at sides; 

 elytra with a submarginal fuscous vitta and often a shorter 

 scutellar one. Head closely and finely punctate. Thorax 

 slightly longer than wide, sides feebly arcuate in front, 

 oblique posteriorly, disc regular, surface densely, finely 

 punctate, smoother on the median line. Elytra finely and 

 closely punctate, without trace of costae. Body beneath 

 pale, abdomen very finely punctate, the last two segments 

 coarsely. Legs pale. Length .30-. 40 inch. ; 7.5-10 mm. 



The last joint of the maxillary palpus is cultriform and 

 the tarsal claws acutely toothed. Specimens occur with 

 a fuscous abdomen. These have the submarginal vitta 

 broader, and in addition a short scutellar vitta. The 

 knees and tips of tibiae may be fuscous also in these latter 

 forms. 



Occurs in Florida and Texas. 



Alloxacis floridana n. sp. 



Pale brownish testaceous, finely pubescent. Head 

 finely not coarsely punctate. Last joint of maxillary 

 palpus cultriform. Thorax not longer than wide, sides 

 anteriorly arcuate, thence oblique to base, disc regularly 

 convex, finely and densely punctured. Elytra more 

 coarsely and less densely punctured than the thorax, with 

 faint traces of costae Body beneath finely but not very 

 densely punctate. Claws acutely toothed. Length .28 

 inch. ; 7 mm. 



Resembles -pleuralis in many ways, but has a broader 

 thorax, and is entirely uniform in color. 



One specimen. Biscayne Bay, Florida. (Schwarz.) 



Alloxacis nitidula n. sp. 



Slender, piceous, very finely cinereo-pubescent, an- 

 tennae and legs pale. Head paler in front, finely, closely 

 punctate. Thorax longer than wide, sides feebly arcuate 



