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long as the next two but thicker ; next four subequal, 3€ longer than wide, 

 the fifth 3^ longer than wide ; seventh 3=4 wider, longer than wide ; eighth % 

 wider, rather longer than wide ; ninth and tenth only slightly wider than the 

 eighth, about as long as wide ; eleventh long, obliquely and gradually pointed, 

 nearly as long as the two preceding. Proihorax strongly conic with feebly 

 arcuate sides, about as long as wide ; apex not more than }4 ^s wide as the 

 base, the latter barely 3^ wider than the head across the eyes ; surface trans- 

 versely and feebly impressed near the base, the impression very narrowly 

 interrupted. Elytra long, % longer than wide, very narrowly parabolic at tip, 

 distinctly more than twice as long as the prothorax and about % wider, widest 

 at basal ^, the sides evenly rounded ; humeral plica strong but unusually 

 short, the subhumeral impression relatively small ; fovese deep ; subsutural 

 impressions narrow, very deep and conspicuous, the suture strongly beaded 

 basally, the bead gradually expanded. Abdomen with the basal segment over- 

 lapping the next and with its hind edge fringed with a deep and almost solid 

 Taembranous border, the latter apparently composed of contiguous scale-like 

 pieces. Legs long, the femora strongly clavate, especially the anterior. 

 Length 1.8 mm.; width 0.75 mm. 



• Iowa (Iowa City). Mr. Wickham. 



This species is closely allied to capillosuluni and proximum, but 

 ■differs from the former in its larger size, more elongate elytra, 

 more elongate head, which is much less broadly rounded behind 

 and with the eyes not larger but rather more abruptly prominent, 

 and, from proximum. in its larger eyes; from both it differs in 

 the very much smaller and less conspicuous subhumeral impres- 

 sion, which character will distinguish it at once. A single female 

 example. 



The e3^es, quile unexpectedly, are perceptibly larger and more 

 conspicuous in the female than in the male of capillosulum, and 

 the head is a little shorter and broader in that sex, so that in 

 making comparisons between these species the sex should be care- 

 fully noted. 



70. C lynceum n. sp. — Moderately stout, suboval, polished, impunc- 

 tate, rather pale testaceous-brown, the antennae and legs nearly concolorous; 

 elytra pale, bright rufous; tarsi flavate; pubescence abundant, long, coarse, 

 erect, pale and conspicuous on the elytra. Head much wider than long, sub- 

 circularly rounded behind, the eyes very large, convex and prominent; an- 

 tennal prominences and frontal concavity very slight; clypeus very sparsely 

 setulose and with a very feeble tubercle on the surface at the middle of 

 the apical margin, which however does not project in the form of a tooth, 

 the edge broady and very feebly incurvate throughout the width. Anteimae 

 barely \4 as long as the body, slender, the club narrow and subparallel but 

 rather abruptly formed; second joint feebly obconic, barely }4 longer than 

 wide, scarcely as long as the next two but decidedly thicker; three to six 



