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the hind tibite and not quite half as long as the tarsus. The re- 

 marks given under the description of anale, as to the aberrant 

 nature of this spur in the present section of the genus, apply 

 equally here. 



Ventricosum- is closely related to anale, but differs in its more 

 inflated elytra and sparser elytral vestiture. Three specimens. 



39. C. hirtellum Lee— Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1852, p. 152, 

 (Seydmsenus). 



Suboval, modei'ately stout, polished and subimpunctate, pale 

 rufo-ferruginous throughout, the legs and antennae concolorous ; 

 pubescence rather abundant, pale, short, coarse and recurved on 

 the elytra. Head transversely oval, subcircular behind, the eyes 

 not prominent ; clypeus not elevated along the middle, the ante- 

 rior margin even and rectilinear. Antennae quite distinctly longer 

 than the head and prothorax,the club strong but not verN' abrupt; 

 second joint obconic, much shorter and thinner than the first, ^ 

 longer than wide, as long as the next two and but slightly thicker ; 

 three to six almost exactly equal, quadrate ; seventh a little wider, 

 not quite as long as wide ; eighth nearly \ wider than the seventh, 

 scarcely ^ wider than long ; ninth and tenth similar in form to 

 the eighth but a little wider ; eleventh rather stouter, almost as 

 long as the two preceding, obtusely ogival and but slightly 

 oblique at apex ; antennae throughout clothed with unusually 

 coarse sparse hairs. Prothorax strongly conic, not quite as long 

 as wide, the sides feebly arcuate ; apex -| as wide as the base, the 

 latter ^ wider than the head ; surface even. Elytra |- longer than 

 wide, distincth^ more than twice as long as the prothorax and 4 

 wider, widest before the middle, the sides evenly arcuate from 

 base to apex, the latter not acute ; humeral plica and impression 

 rather small ; subsutural impressions obsolete, the suture simple. 

 Legs well developed, the anterior femora strongly, the four pos- 

 terior less strongly, clavate. Length 1.35 mm.; width 0.6 mm. 



Georgia and Alabama. The specimen above described is a male 

 and the oedeagus is completely extended. This is large and bulb- 

 ous at base, turned strongly upward, the apex becoming laminate 

 and produced at the middle in a slender corneous process, which 

 is minutely but abruptly dilated at tip, the latter truncate ; there 

 are also two shorter lateral lobes which are acute and directed 

 obliquely inward to a slight extent, each bearing at apex a long 

 and excurvate seta which projects beyond the central spicule. 



Annals N. Y. Acad. Sci., IX, April, 1897.— 29. 



