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or spinose, tibiz slender, hind tarsi with 1st joint scarcely as long as 
two following. Length 1.20 inch. = 30 mm. Hab. Valley of Rio Grande. 
BROTHYLUS, Ze. 
Contains two species distinguished as follows: 
Thorax armed with an acute tubercle at middle. ........ 2. eee eee gemmulatus. 
Hitoraeictubercle Obsolete. so 8..u... s So MORM e Seg le oe elas conspersus, 
B. gemmulatus, Lec. Proc. Ac. Phil. 1859, p. 80. 
olor fuscopiceous with short pubescence. ‘The elytra are orna- 
mented with scattered shining granules, larger at base and becoming 
smaller toward tip where they are only punctures. Length .67 inch. = 
mame tab. Cale 
B. conspersus, Lec. Proc. Ac. Phil. 1850, p. 285. 
Color nigropiceous, variegated with grayish hair. The dorsal aspect 
of thorax is tuberculate and the 4th joint of antenne only one half as 
long as 3d or 5th in this and preceding species. The elytra are granul- 
ate as in preceding and bear two vague oblique fasciz less pubescent. 
Length .73—77 inch. = 18—1g mm. _ Hab. Oregon. 
OSMIDUS, lec. 
Contains one species. 
0. guttatus, Lec. S.M.C., No. 264, 1873, XI, p. 178. 
An elongate piceous species, densely covered with short uniform 
cinereous pubescence, interrupted on the elytra with small scattered de- 
nuded spots. Prothorax oval with two basal and two discoidal impres- 
sions very faintly marked. Scutellum triangular, rounded behind. Legs 
rather long, thighs stout, not clubbed, Ist joint of hind tarsi as long as 
tyo following. Elytra parallel, rounded at tip and with a small spine 
near, but not on the suture, Length ,.7o—.96 inch. = 17—19 mm. 
Hab. Cape San Lucas. 
STROMATIUM, “rv. 
Contains one species: | 
§. pubescens, Hald, (Anopliuwm) ‘rans. Am, Phil. X., p. 34; Lec. J.A.P. ser. 2, 
II, 1850, p. 16. 
’ Pale yellowish brown; elytra robust subcylindrical, nearly parallel, 
entire at tip, uniformly pubescent; antennee, elytra and feet unarmed. 
Length .58 inch. = 14.5 inch. Hab. Pennsylvania. 
