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in Casey's synoptic table in which the submarginal line of the 

 pronotum is strongly impressed and entire, and with the 

 pubescence intermingled with larger black hairs. 



Dasytes vicinus sp. nov.— Oblong, rather stout, black, shining, with a 

 feeble virido-aeneous lustre, and moderately convex ; antennae black to 

 slightly piceous ; femora black, tibiae and tarsi rufo-ferruginous to pices- 

 cent ; pubescence sparse, long and rather bristling, consisting of more or 

 less suberect and backwardly curved, luteo-cinerous hairs on elytra, those 

 on the head quite erect, on pronotum irregular in direction, otherwise simi- 

 lar, and abundantly intermixed with more or less erect, slightly stouter, 

 black and stiffer hairs, which are on the elytra slightly backwardly curved, 

 irregularly so on the pronotum, more erect on the head and slightly 

 longer about the humeri, gradually becoming slightly shorter toward the 

 elytral apices. Head scarcely transverse, about (tf) or scarcely ( 9 ) as 

 wide as the prothorax at apex, front not impressed, very slightly and 

 evenly convex, quite evenly and not very closely punctate, punctures 

 rather impressed, slightly denser on the vertex, occiput, and tempora, 

 epistoma more or less impunctate ; eyes not prominent and moderate in 

 size, and not very coarsely granulate ; antennae longer than the head and 

 prothorax, rather stout (6*)i or filiform and scarcely longer than the 

 head and prothorax (?) ; subserrate, joints 3-10 subtriangular (thicker 

 in the ^), third slender and longer than wide ( ? ), eleventh ovate and 

 about twice as long as wide. Prothorax about as wide as long (<^) or 

 slightly transverse ($), widest behind the middle, sides moderately 

 arcuate in basal half, less so and feebly converging anteriorly, feebly 

 sinuate behind the apical angles ; edges subserrulate ; apex scarcely as 

 wide as the base, and arcuato-truncate in circular arc ; apical angles 

 obtuse and scarcely rounded ; base broadly and moderately arcuate, 

 subsinuate laterally ; basal angles scarcely evident and obtuse ; disc 

 evenly and moderately convex, less so antero-posteriorly, strongly 

 punctate, punctures impressed and separated by less than their own 

 diameters, slightly denser in the 9, intervals smooth, more or less feebly 

 convex, or flat in the ^ ; submarginal line strong and entire, submarginal 

 area coarsely reto-rugose. 



Elytra rather large, less than twice as long as wide ; sides feebly 

 arcuate, subparallel (^) or slightly widened behind the middle (?) ; 

 base slightly wider than the prothorax ; humeri scarcely at all tumid ; 

 apex rather obtusely parabolic, sutural angles feebly and narrowly 

 rounded ; disc moderately convex, punctate, the punctures irregular, 

 coarse, impressed and separated by their own diameters or less, inter- 

 spaces more or less feebly convex with a tendency to form transverse 

 and very feebly evident rugulae. Abdomen finely and rather densely 

 punctulate, and apparently more or less minutely reticulate ; pubescence 

 ather sparce and luteous, the hairs recumbent and rather long. Measure- 



