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rangular ; the auterior margin deeply siuuated, bluntly carinated ; the 

 anterior angles rounded, and prolonged to before the middle of the eyes ; 

 the lateral margins a little oblique, anteriorly a little curved, remotely 

 ciliated ; the edge recurved ; posterior margin a little convexly curved j 

 the lateral angles moderately obliquely rounded ; the margin interior to 

 the humeri feebly sinuated ; disk posteriorly obsoletely, transversely 

 impressed, each end of the impression excavated, and behind each eye 

 an excavated point. Corium broad, reaching to the penultimate segment 

 of the abdomen ; the costal margin broadly curving, inward at tip, 

 Scutellum short, almost as wide as long; the tip narrow, obliquely 

 rounded, not extending beyond the inner angle of the corium ; the sides 

 feebly siuuated. 



ill. repetitus. 



Castaneous or rufo-piceous : broader posteriorly. Head bluntly 

 rounded in front, with short, close spines, and remotely hairy ; the mar- 

 gins broadly recurved, rufescent; submargin grooved ', disk a little con- 

 vex, irregularly, rather finely i^unctured ; the base almost impunctured ; 

 the posterior margin broadly excavated each side ; adjoining each eye 

 and in each basal corner of the tylus with a small, round pit ; ocelli red, 

 very remote, placed near and a little behind the line of the eyes ; ros- 

 trum ferruginous or pale piceous, reaching between the intermediate 

 coxne ; the second joint much compressed, and a little shorter than the 

 third and fourth united ; antennae moderately stout; second joint scarcely 

 half as long as the third ; third gradually enlarged toward the tip ; fourth 

 and fifth joints subequal, subfusiform. Pronotum broader than long, 

 narrowing anteriorly, transversely impressed, smooth, finely and closely 

 punctured, excepting the anterior part of the disk ; the anterior margin 

 deeply excavated, with the whole edge recurved ; anterior angles prom- 

 inently prolonged, angularly rounded ; lateral margins arcuated anteri- 

 orly ; the edge recurved ; the submargin depressed, ciliated with long, 

 close hairs ; lateral angles rectangular, smooth, with steep sides, and 

 feebly rounded ; the intra-humeral impressions shallow. Pectus rufo- 

 piceous, darker on the j)osterior pleural pieces, smooth, impunctured; 

 the lateral margins of the prosternum slightly elevated. Legs aud coxse 

 pale flavo- or rufo-piceous ; the anterior tibire moderately compressed, 

 having about six spines on the outer edge; the spines of the posterior 

 tibie black-piceous ; tarsi testaceous ; the intermediate joint small. 

 Scutellum a little flattened, polished and impunctured on the disk; the 

 remaihing surface closely punctured, minutely rugulose, before the 

 tip a little sinuated ; the edge very narrowly recurved ; tip faintly im- 

 pressed ; obsoletely carinated. Corium broad, moderately convex, 

 smooth, coarsely, closely punctured, on the disk obsoletely punctured; 

 the costal margin broadly, convexly arcuated ; the edge broad and dis- 

 tinctly' recurved; the posterior margin faintly sinuated, furnished with 

 a thinner border, and with the outer angle a little produced ; embolium 

 broad, reaching to the second ventral segment, minutely scabrous ; the 

 membrane brownish, moderately declivous posteriorly. Venter polished, 

 minutely shagreened, and wrinkled each side and behind ; the genital 

 segment almost vertical, and crowned with a few erect hairs. 



Length, 3 J to 4 millimeters. Width of pronotum, 2 to 2^ millimeters- 

 Inhabits San Francisco ; received from Messrs. Henry Edwards and 

 James Behrens. 



A single specimen was also found by mj'self on the side of a hill two 

 miles west of Baltimore, beneath a stone. Thus far, only females have 

 been obtained. 



