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extending from apical two-fifths to the base, which is more coarsely punctate 

 and more pubescent ; other regions dull, coarsely punctate, the punctures 

 densely crowded and themselves finely densely punctate, forming an intricate 

 hut coarse sculpture. Scutellum densely pubescent. Elytra a little less than 

 three times as long as wide, at base distinctly wider than the prothorax ; sides 

 feebly convergent from base to apex, the latter truncate, the outer spine very 

 short and broadly obtuse, the sutural short, narrower and more acute ; disk 

 sparsely punctate, the punctures very coarse toward base but fine in apical 

 half. Under surface nearly as in mucronatum, the legs longer and the femora 

 much stouter in the male, not spinose ; posterior tibiae carinate as in irroratum. 

 Length 21.0-23.0 mm. ; width 5.6-5.8 mm. 



Arizona. 



The two specimens, which are from the Levette cabinet, are both 

 males. Although by the characters given for Aneflus, this species 

 should be placed near protensum, I cannot recommend that it be 

 withdrawn from the neighborhood of irroratum, and if it is trans- 

 ferred to Aneflus, irroratum must go also; but in truth there is 

 no such group in nature as Aneflus, and it should therefore be 

 suppressed and the species returned to Elaphidion. 



E. leTettei n. sp. — Elongate, very slender, parallel, dark rufo-castane- 

 ous, shining, the pubescence silvery-white, not at all maculate on the protho- 

 rax, arranged in four even parallel vittae on each elytron, which do not quite 

 attain the apex, and which are separated by narrower, very sparsely pubescent 

 lines, also with a series of small widely separated denuded spots on each side 

 of the suture. Head rather coarsely, densely punctate ; antennae wanting in 

 the type. Prothorax much longer than wide, the apex subtruncate, distinctly 

 narrower than the base ; sides feebly swollen just behiud the middle, thence 

 feebly convergent and nearly straight to the apex, and parallel and feebly, 

 broadly sinuate to the base ; disk very coarsely, deeply, densely punctate, the 

 punctures tending to coalesce transversely at the sides, with a small elongate 

 very uneven impunctate area at the middle. Scutellum densely white, small, 

 the pubescence not at all parted along the middle. Elytra fully three times 

 as long as the head and prothorax together, at base two-fifths wider than the 

 latter, each elytron very narrowly truncate at apex, and with two subequal 

 slender and well-developed spines ; sides nearly straight, very feebly conver- 

 gent from base to apex ; disk sparsely punctate, the punctures very coarse 

 toward base, gradually rather fine toward apex, the dense pubescence of the 

 vittae not borne from the punctures, but from almost invisible punctuation of 

 the flat interspaces, each of the sparsely pubescent lines having an extremely 

 widely spaced row of coarser punctures, each bearing a long flying hair, one 

 of the latter borne also from each of the small sutural denuded spots. Legs 

 rather long, the femora very slender, not spinose at apex ; tibiae and tarsi 

 wanting in the type. Length 18.0 mm. ; width 3.5 mm. 



