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arcuate, the antennae also somewhat short, with relatively large, 

 stout and ovate 4-jointed club, which is as long as the preceding 

 six joints of the funicle; the first funicular joint is nearly as long 

 as the next four; the anterior coxae are separated by more than 

 their own width, with flat prosternum, unarmed in the male; the 

 scutellum is quadrate or narrower and nude. There are three 

 species at hand, of which Centrimis griseus Lee, may be regarded 

 as the type; they can be described as follows from the female: 



Prothorax larger, only a fourth wider than long. Body stout, oval, con- 

 vex, piceous, with rufous legs; scales above almost white, dense on 

 the prothorax, especially toward the sides, generally in single line 

 on the stria! intervals, irregularly doubled on the second and third 

 and toward base of the fifth, close-set beneath; beak fully as long 

 as the head and prothorax, cylindric, strongh' arcuate and feebly 

 sculptured, with the antennae rather behind the middle; prothorax 

 somewhat coarsel}^ deeply and densely punctate, with narrow and 

 incomplete median smooth line, the sides parallel, slightly arcuate, 

 rounding before the middle to the feebly constricted apex, which is 

 three-fifths as wide as the base; basal lobe a third the total width; 

 elytra subparabolic, a fourth longer than wide, obtuse at apex, 

 slightly wider than the prothorax and only four-sevenths longer, 

 the grooves rather coarse. Length (9) 3.0 mm.; width 1.35 mm. 

 Texas (Galveston) grisea Lee. 



Prothorax shorter and more transverse 2 



2 — Elytra evenly parabolic, not very obtuse, being somewhat strongly 

 rounded behind; body oblong-oval, convex, piceous, the elytra and 

 legs more rufous; scales above yellowish, large and broadly dense 

 toward the pronotal sides and in a broad medial area, elsewhere 

 smaller and less conspicuous; on the elytra they are dense and con- 

 fused on the second, third and thence on the alternate intervals to 

 the sides, irregularly uniseriate on the others; they are close and 

 conspicuous beneath, fine and indistinct on the pro- and mesopleura; 

 beak (cf) arcuate, rather thick, more punctate and not longer than 

 the head and prothorax, or (9 ) longer, less stout and smooth except 

 basally; antennae at three-fifths (cf) ora little bej'ond the middle ( 9 ) ; 

 prothorax two-fifths wider than long, the parallel sides distinctly and 

 subevenly arcuate, more oblique anteriorly to the unconstricted 

 apex, which is half as wide as the base, the basal lobe as in grisea; 

 elytra a third longer than wide, slightly wider than the prothorax 

 and four-fifths longer, the grooves rather coarse; male with the 

 abdomen feebly impressed medially near the base. Length (c? 9 ) 

 3.0-3.2 mm.; width 1.25 mm. Arizona (localit>- unrecorded). 

 Two examples apacheana n. sp. 



Elytra with the sides only feebly oblique and slightly arcuate to the 

 very broadly rounded and obtuse apex; outline oblong, rather stout; 

 color piceous-black, the legs obscure rufous; scales above large, 

 pale yellowish and dense, slightly less so just within the lateral 



