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' Body reddish-brown, hairy on every part : head with 

 rather large dense punctures; tip of the clypeus obtuse- 

 ly rounded : thorax with the hair equal, reflected : scutel 

 with rather short hair: elytra destitute of elevated lines ; 

 hair longer near the base: postpcctus Avith long hair: 

 feet with sparse hair. 



Length less than three fourths of an inch. 



Distinguishable from all the other known North 



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American species by its rounded clypeus combined with 

 its universal hairy vesture and magnitude. 



AnoiMala, Meg, 



1. A. gemella. Yellowish-w^hitC; varied with black- 

 ish, elytra with geminate striae. 



Inhab. Mexico. 



Body pale, varied with blackish : head punctured^ 

 cupreous : thorax with minute, distant punctures ; edge 

 blackish-cupreous ; disk blackish ; this color reaches the 

 middle of the anterior margin, is sinuate on the sides and 

 profoundly so behind ; a blackish dot on the middle of 

 the lateral submargin : scutel piceous : elytra with rather 

 distant, large and blackish punctures ; three double series 

 of impressed punctures similar to the others, but approxi- 

 mate, and a single subsutural series ; edge all around 

 blackish, a humeral spot and middle of the exterior mar- 

 gin blackish. 



Length half an inch. 



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In some respects resembles A. unifasciatus, Nob. but 

 it is larger, w ith a shorter head, and is very different by 



other characters. 



2. A. cincta. Bluish-green, elytra pale brownish- 



Inhabits Mexico. 



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