Baring 467 



Related rather closely to the southern California seclusus and 

 included with the type of that species in my former work, but it is 

 much smaller, the beak very much too small even allowing for 

 difference of sex, the prothorax smaller, shorter, less coarsely and 

 more closely punctate, and the elytral stria finer and not distinctly 

 punctate; in the female type of seclusus the striae are remotely, 

 strongly and crenately punctate, the intervals relatively not so 

 wide and with the punctures twice as numerous; the elytra in 

 seclusus, when compared with the prothorax, are relatively much 

 smaller than in minuens. The length and width of the type of 

 minuens given in my revision are too great. 



Anacentrus validulus n. sp. — Form, coloration, lustre and facies some- 

 what as in blanditus, but much larger and stouter, polished, rufo-piceous, 

 the elytra clearer red-brown; upper surface nearly glabrous, the pale 

 yellowish scales forming a narrow and rather dense abrupt pronotal 

 margin and an elongate spot at the baise of the third strial interval, the 

 elytral surface elsewhere with only a few widely dispersed yellowish 

 scales; under surface with very small slender squamules lying within the 

 coarse punctures, the met-episterna alone densely squamose, less so 

 posteriorly; beak in the female cylindric, evenly and moderately arcuate, 

 finely, sparsely punctate and shining, about as long as the head and pro- 

 thorax, the antennae at four-sevenths; prothorax a little w^ider than long, 

 the sides rounding gradually from behind the middle to the feebly con- 

 stricted apex, which is more than half as wide as the base; punctures 

 small and widely separated, the smooth line not entire; elytra parabolic, 

 just visibly wider than the prothorax and three-fourths longer, the grooves 

 moderate, feebly crenulate; intervals three to nearly four times as wide 

 as the grooves, with fine, rather confused punctures, having also single 

 series of larger punctures bearing the scales and very remotely separated 

 along intervals 3-5-7. Length (9) 3-7 rnm.; width 1.65 mm. Texas 

 (Austin). 



Separable easily from blanditus, occurring in the same region, by 

 its much larger size and stouter form, somewhat larger and more 

 elongate antennal club, much more convex pronotum, as shown by 

 the more arcuate median line in lateral profile, and other characters; 

 the elytral sculpture is, however, almost identical in the two species. 



Anacentrus subtropicus n. sp. — Rather short, oblong-oval and convex, 

 moderately shining, black, the legs rufous; entire upper surface com- 

 pletely glabrous; punctures of the under surface bearing slender and 

 very sparse, inconspicuous squamules; beak in the female slender, evenly 

 cylindric, nearly smooth, very evenly, moderately arcuate and scarcely 

 as long as the head and prothorax, the antennae near three-fifths; pro- 

 thorax between a fourth and third wider than long, the sides parallel and 



