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 Carphoborus carri, n. sp. 



Description of female. Length, 1.7 mm.; width, .7 mm.; black with 

 greyish scale-like pubescence. The head is finely, transversely aciculate 

 behind, with the front clothed on a subcircular area with stout, close, yellow 

 hairs, shorter towards the centre, which is shining, broadly transversely impressed 

 on the cephalic half, fringed with long yellow hairs on the epistomal margin, 

 the median epistomal process as long or rather longer than wide, subtruncate 

 apically with the sides parallel; the eyes wide, coarsely granulate, deeply 

 emarginate; the antennal club subtruncate apically, with three nearly straight 

 sutures. 



The pronotum has the sides straight and subparallel on the caudal half, 

 strongly constricted in front of the middle; the front margin very broadly 

 arcuate, the median line finely carinate; the disc closely, strongly, rather finely 

 punctured, with small, very stout scale-like pubescence. 



The elytra have the sides subparallel to beyond the middle, slightly wider 

 behind the middle, arcuately narrowed on the caudal third to the narrowly 

 rounded apex, subtruncate from above owing to the elevated third interspace; 

 the bases arcuate, strongly elevated and margined with a 'row of strongly deve- 

 loped recurved lunar rugosities, followed upon the disc by an irregular second 

 row; the striae moderately impressed, as wide as or wider than the narrowly con- 

 vex interspaces ; the strial punctures coarse, close and subquadrate, the second 

 interspace much widened, strongly elevated, and coarsely rugose at the base; 

 the interspaces densely punctured, and clothed with small, subcircular greyish 

 scales similar to those of the pronotum; the first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth 

 somewhat carinate behind, the intervening interspaces becoming very narrow 

 behind; the declivity with first interspace moderately elevated, the second very 

 narrow, nearly obsolete, the third strongly carinate and serrate, but little 

 widened behind, parallel to the first, united with the similarly carinate ninth 

 near the apex, with which it is connected by a very short obliquely transverse 

 ridge; the fourth, sixth, and eighth normal; the fifth and seventh carinate and 

 united at the tips within the angle made by the third and ninth. The ventral 

 pubescence hairy, more scale-like on the middle segments of the abdomen; the 

 fore coxee narrowly separated. 



The male has the front more broadly impressed, conspicuously clothed with 

 yellow hairs, very dense, rather long and incurved about the margins. 



Collected in Picea canadensis, near Edmonton, Alta., by Mr. F. S. Carr, 

 after whom it is named; the type, a female, in the collection of the Entomo- 

 logical Branch, under No. 2268. Also, Aweme, Man., Mr. Norman Griddle. 



Hylurgops lecontei, n. sp. 



This species is represented by the second specimen mentioned by Leconte 

 under the name porosus. The type of this description agrees exactly with the 

 Leconte specimen. 



Description of the adult. Allied to porosus Lee., but smaller, with the 

 pronotal punctures coarser and denser and the striae less deeply impressed on 

 the declivity; length, 4 -1mm.; width, l-6mm. 



The head is as in porosus. 



The pronotum is arcuate on the sides, strongly narrowed towards the front, 

 slightly narrowed behind; coarsely, densely granulate-punctate, with very few 

 small punctures intermixed. 



The elytra are much as in porosus Lee., but the strise only moderately 

 impressed on the disc, faintly impressed towards the base, hardly more deeply 

 impressed on the declivity than on the disc; the interspaces but little more 

 prominent on the declivity than on the disc; uniseriately asperate and setose 



