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he was unfamiliar. No species exactly answering to that descrip- 

 tion has been seen since and I am inclined to think none will, for 

 I believe that Boheman had an atypical specimen of platalea in his 

 hands or drew up his description so hastily that he made it inac- 

 curate and therefore impossible to recognize. The parallel sides 

 of the thorax which it was said to have, is a character which many 

 specimens of platalea possess. Dr. Horn laid too much stress 

 upon the " arcuate sides " of the thorax in his remarks upon that 

 species. 



C. platalea Say. Descr. Cure. N. A., p. 24; Am. Ent. Edit. 

 Lee, I, p. 292; Horn, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XHI, 2 Z, p. 438. 



Black, shining. Head rather finely and discretely punctured, 

 rostrum more coarsely and closely, small fovea between base of 

 eyes, eyes moderately and but slig'htly prominent, diameter of head 

 across eyes slightly greater than dilated portion of rostrum, sides 

 of head gradually convergent to base of rostrum. Rostrum longer 

 than half the thorax, moderately accurate, basal portion longer 

 than the apical, cylindrical, slightly compressed laterally, gradu- 

 ally increasing in width to apical portion which is moderately 

 though rather suddenly quadrangularly dilated. Joints of funicle 

 of antennae only very gradually increasing in width outwards, 

 the outermost joint barely one half the width of the basal portion 

 of club. 



Prothorax as wide or wider than long, apex rather suddenly 

 narrowed, base feebly bi-sinuate and on each side of middle 

 slightly impressed, sides moderately and regularly arcuate (in 

 some species almost parallel), surface flattened, unequally punc- 

 tured, punctures at the sides denser and finer, at middle somewhat 

 coarser and more sparsely placed, but nowhere dense nor very 

 close together, at base, the basal rudiment of a crista just evident. 



Elytra broader than the thorax, flattened, striate, moderately 

 coarsely and serrately punctured, intervals flat, very minutely uni- 

 seriately punctate. 



Body beneath sparsely punctured. Length 5.5-6.5 mm., breadth 

 1.25. 



Occurs from the Middle States to at least as far south as Vir- 

 ginia (Fredericksburg, Richardson) and West to Iowa (Allegheny, 



