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CRACILIA, “rv. 
Very small slender insects, piceous in color, and finely punctured 
and pubescent. . 
SYNOPSIS OF GRAUCILIA. 
Elytra unicolorous, rounded at tip. 
Not shorter than abdomen................-. ie REO Cee Ea ea Bs minuta. 
Shorter than abdomen; prothorax more rounded.........--..-.-+..+.-5. manca. 
Elytra fasciate, truncate and serrate at (OO: 5/2 aes Mea REL CsetG iG 0 0° fasciata. 
G. minuta, Fab. Spec. Ins. I, 1681, p. 235; Oliv. Ent. IV, 68, p. 41, t. 3, f. 315 
pygmeea Fab. Ent. Syst. I, 2, p. 323; &c. &c.; fusea Hald. Trans. Am. Phil. X, 
1847, p. 43; Lec. J.A.P. ser. 2, H, 1850, p. 24. 
This species has been introduced in articles of commerce from 
Europe. It is piceousin color, finely pubescent. ‘The antennz are 
hairy, in G' longer, in Y shorter than the body. Length 25 inch. = 
6mm _ Hab. Atlantic States. 
G. manca, Lec. J.A.P. ser. 2, Il, p. 24, 
This rare species is immediately distinguished by the sioreree™ 
elytra and by the thorax which is shorter. Length .32 inch. = 8 mm. 
Hab. New York. see 
G. fasciata, Lec. S.M.C., No.. 264, 1873, Xl, p. 171. 
Opaque black, pubescent, thorax alutaceous sparsely punctured; 
elytra more strongly punctured with the basal margin and a transverse 
fascia immediately behind the middle of white pubescence. Tip of 
élytra distinctly truncate with 3 or 4 serrations, the sutural and outer 
one prominent. Length .18 inch. = 4.5 mm. Hab. Lower California, 
HAMMATICHERUS, “ev. 
Contains one species, easily distinguished by the plicate, armed 
thorax, and bispinose elytra. It occurs rarely in Lower California. 
H. mexicanus, Thoms. Class. Longic. 1860, p. 196. 
AXESTINUS, Ze. 
Contains one species: 
A. obscurus, Lec. 5.M.C., No. 264, 1873, XI, p. 177. 
A large piceous insect with cinereous pubescence. Thorax longer 
than wide, narrowed in front with two discoidal impressions before the 
middle, sparsely coarsely punctured with feeble transverse rugae. Elytra 
densely punctured, bispinose at tip. Legs slender, thighs not clavate 
