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before me so far as it differs from the description of the male heretofore 

 published. 



The margins of the vertex meeting in a somewhat obtuse angle ; the 

 club of the antenna? distinct, but not so broad as in the male. The pronotum 

 scarcely gibbous, as in the male ; slightly constricted in advance of the 

 middle; the lateral carinas forming a distinct angular convergence in 

 advance of the middle, and diverging anteriorly and posteriorly ; median 

 carina (also in the male) distinct ; posterior margin obtusely rounded, almost 

 truncate. Elytra and wings abbreviated, the former extending over but 

 three or four abdominal segments, lanceolate, with longitudinal nerves 

 (also in the male) prominent. Posterior femora a little shorter than the 

 abdomen. 



Color (after long immersion in alcohol). — As the male, except as 

 follows: — face brown; pronotum dark-yellowish on the sides, with elongate 

 dashes and scattered spots and dots of dark fuscous ; the upper portion of 

 the sides in the exterior angle of the lateral carina? black ; dorsum yellowish, 

 with a triangular black spot on the posterior lobe each side of the median 

 carina; elytra brown; posterior femora reddish-brown, with two or three 

 very oblique, somewhat irregular, dusky stripes across the external face. 



Length about 1 inch; elytra, 0.12 to 0.15 inch. 



STENOBOTHRUS. 

 STENOBOTHEUS OCCIPITALIS, Thos. 

 Stenoiothrus occipitalis, Thos., Synop., 1873, 81. 



Dr. Brunner de Wattenwyl, to whom a specimen of this species was 

 forwarded, gives it as his opinion that it will have to be transferred to 

 Oxycoryphus. As it does not belong here, and closely approaches the latter 

 genus, he is probably correct in this opinion. 



STENOBOTHEUS CUETIPENNIS, Scud. 



Stcnobothrtcs curtipennis, Scud., Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., 1862, vii, 456. 

 Stmobothrus longipennis, Scud., Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., 1862, vii, 457. 

 Lnrusta curtipennis, Harr., Cat. Ins. Mass., 56. 

 Chloealtis curtipennis, Harr., Rep., 3d ed., 184, pi. 3, f. 1. 



Several specimens of the long-winged variety are contained in the coi- 

 tions of 1872 and 1873. 



