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larger, four-fifths as wide as the prothorax, with large and prominent 

 eyes; surface declivous and alutaceous anteriorly; antennae slender, 

 fuscous, the medial joints between three and four times as long as 

 wide; prothorax relatively much smaller than in transversus, three- 

 fourths wider than long; general outline and surface similar, except 

 that the side margins are more reflexed anteriorly and still more 

 widely so basally, and that the foveas are deeper, more acutely linear 

 at the bottom and attain the basal margin; elytra one-half longer 

 than wide and fully one-half wider than the prothorax, the striae 

 finer and less impressed, the intervals flatter though sensibly convex; 

 posterior puncture much less apical, at or before posterior fourth; 

 apex similarly obtuse. Length (cf 9 ) 4.2-4.5 mm.; width 1.6- 



1.7 mm. Illinois reflexus Lee. 



II — Form elongate-subparallel, rather convex, shining, pale rufo-flavate 

 in color, the head, entire hind body beneath, a large quadrate spot 

 not quite attaining the margin or suture and an apical area on each 

 elytron, deep black; legs pale flavate; elytra wholly devoid of 

 iridescence; head barely wider than an elytron, more than three- 

 fourths as wide as the prothorax, with large prominent eyes; epi- 

 stoma feebly concave at each side, the apex broadly sinuate; palpi 

 with the fourth joint much longer and thicker than the third; an- 

 tennae very slender, black, the first joint testaceous with nubilously 

 black apex; prothorax one-half wider than long, the sides finely 

 reflexed, rounded, gradually oblique and straight in nearly basal 

 half, only little more reflexed basally, the angles very obtuse, scarcely 

 blunt; base evidently narrower than the apex, the transverse im- 

 pressions just traceable, the foveae oval, moderately impressed, not 

 attaining the base; elytra fully three-fourths longer than wide, one- 

 half wider than the prothorax, rather wider behind the middle than 

 at base, obtusely rounded at apex; striae fine, smooth, rather abrupt, 

 the intervals almost flat, the posterior puncture near apical fifth. 

 Length (9) 5.5-6.0 mm.; width 1.9-2.2 mm. Indiana, — Levette. 

 Five examples pulchellus Lee. 



Of the species which I have not seen, obtusus Lee, from Lake 

 Superior, has broadly rounded basal thoracic angles; flavipes, of 

 the southern Atlantic regions, also has these angles rounded; 

 micans is alluded to in the introductory remarks; bipustulatus 

 Fab., is a European species said to occur in Vancouver Island, but 

 probably not correctly identified; maculatiis Lee, from Pennsyl- 

 vania, is marked somewhat as in pulchellus, but has a black pro- 

 thorax, and elegans Lee, of Texas, seems to resemble maculatus, 

 the elytral spots confluent from the fourth to ninth stria, but does 

 not have the thoracic sides more broadly reflexed basally and is 

 somewhat smaller in size. The species described by Mr. Blatchley 

 from Indiana, under the name laticeps, is evidently allied to flavi- 

 cornis, but is somewhat larger; the head is said to be as wide as 



