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wide; anterior male tarsi very feebly dilated. Length (cT 9 ) 6.7- 

 7.0 mm.; width 2.4-2.65 mm. Texas (Galveston). Three ex- 

 amples, taken by the writer maritimum n. sp. 



Form nearly similar, rather convex, shining, black, the anterior parts 

 feebly greenish-black; legs obscure testaceous, the knees and tarsi 

 blackish; head nearly as in the preceding, the deep anterior im- 

 pressions flexed more finely outward behind; eyes nearly similar, 

 scarcely prominent; antenna very slender, black throughout, two- 

 thirds as long as the body, the third joint shorter and narrower 

 than the fourth; prothorax fully a fourth wider than long, the 

 sides strongly rounded, inflated, oblique and straighter basally, the 

 foveae as in the preceding but less traceable anteriorly; base very 

 distinctly narrower than the feebly sinuate apex; impressions sub- 

 obsolete, the fine stria entire; elytra not quite one-half longer than 

 wide, four-fifths wider than the prothorax, the arcuate sides simi- 

 larly gradually more rounding basally; apex similar but with more 

 distinct sinus; striae moderately fine, deep, grooved, finely punctu- 

 late basally, impunctate behind; intervals not quite flat, the third 

 with four, rarely five, punctures. Length (9) 6.8 mm.; width 2.6 

 mm. North Carolina (Southern Pines), — Manee. Georgia, — Le- 

 Conte decipiens Lee. 



6 — Upper surface bicolored, shining, the head and pronotum con- 

 spicuously green, the elytra black, becoming green at the sides. 

 Body smaller than in any other, only moderately convex, ventricose; 

 under surface black, the legs pale throughout; head only slightly 

 longer than wide, more than three-fourths as wide as the prothorax, 

 the eyes large but only moderately convex; impression deep and 

 coarse, finely oblique toward the eyes; palpi slender, black; an- 

 tennae slender, two-thirds as long as the body, black, the first joint 

 piceo-rufous, the third barely shorter than the fourth; prothorax 

 very nearly as long as wide, the sides very evenly rounded, finely 

 reflexed, more so at base, forming the outer wall of the fovea?, 

 which are large, deeply concave, slightly punctate and traceable 

 for only a short distance anteriorly; base somewhat narrower than 

 the feebly sinuate apex; basal angles obtuse and rounded, the apical 

 sharply marked; surface nearly as in the preceding; elytra only 

 two-fifths longer than wide, about twice as Avide as the prothorax, 

 the sides gradually more rounding at base; apex rapidly obtuse, 

 with distinct sinus; striae only moderately fine, deep, grooved, 

 coarser at tip, finely, closely punctate, obsoletely so behind, the 

 scutellar moderate, punctate; intervals feebly convex to nearh" flat, 

 the third with four punctures; anterior male tarsi feebly dilated. 

 Length (cf 9) 6.2-6.6 mm.; width 2.3-2.45 mm. Alabama 

 (Fruitdale and Salco), — Loding semiviride n. sp. 



L'pper surface shining, black throughout, the anterior parts or entire 

 surface never more than just visibly and faintly viridate 7 



7 — Body stouter and rather strongly convex, the elytra very evenly 

 elongate oval. Legs obscure rufous or blackish, the femora pale 

 except apically; head elongate, narrower than the prothorax, the 

 eyes large but not very prominent, the impressions as in the pre- 



