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gradually pointed and feebly converging carinse in less than basal third, sepa- 

 rated by about % of the discal width. Legs rather slender, the femora 

 moderately dilated. Length 1.0 mm. ; -width 0.4 mm. 



New York. 



Described from a single female example and evidently closely 

 related to the lowan maja, of Brendel, in the large and elongate 

 basal fovea of the elj'tra ; although elongate this fovea does not 

 assume the form of a stria however. The sutural stria is deep 

 and straight, and is gradually shallowed externally but without 

 indication of any particularly distinct punctures, as alluded to in 

 the description of maja. 



M. uniformis n. sp. — Strongly convex, moderately ventricose and im- 

 punctate, resembling the preceding in color and vestiture. Head about equal 

 in width to the prothorax, fully as long as wide, the eyes rather well developed, 

 moderately convex and prominent, at scarcely more than their own length 

 from the base, the tempora behind them slightly less prominent, quite dis- 

 tinctly convergent and continuously arcuate to the base ; occiput distinctly 

 impressed at the middle, the impression carried forward, gradually becoming 

 feeble nearly to the line of the fovese, the latter rather large and deep, nude, at 

 basal % and separated by nearly }4 the total width, connected by a feeble 

 ambient sulcus ; antennal prominences small but strong ; antennae nearly as 

 in fossiger, except that the ninth joint is but little larger than the eighth and 

 almost perfectly symmetric, the tenth not so broad and less than }'2 as wide as 

 the eleventh. Prothorax slightly wider than long, the sides circularly arcuate, 

 becoming abruptly straight and parallel in rather more than basal fourth, the 

 sulcus broadly biarcuate and rather deep, not dilated at the median flexure. 

 Elytra nearly as in fossiger but rather less abbreviated, with the sides not quite 

 so divergent from the moderately prominent humeri, the basal fovea large, 

 rather abruptly evanescent and extending through basal % of the length : 

 sutural stria not obviously punctured externally, except very minutely and 

 feebly toward tip. Abdomen as long as the elytra and obviously narrower, 

 convex, the dorsals equal, the first with two flat triangular parallel carinse in 

 less than basal third, separated by less than % of the discal width. Legs 

 rather slender, the femora moderately inflated. Length 1.0 mm.; width 

 0.4 mm. 



Rhode Island (Boston Neck). 



Also described from the female and closely related to the pre- 

 ceding, differing in its less elongate and more rounded tempora, 

 more anteriorly extended occipital sulcus, relatively somewhat 

 smaller prothorax, shorter, deeper and more abruptly defined basal 

 fovea of the elytra and some other characters. It is rather re- 

 markable that of the sixteen examples before me not one is a 

 male, and, so far as I know, the male in this peculiar group, hav- 

 ing a more elongate basal fovea of the elytra, remains unknown. 



