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moderately coarse, deep, widely but unevenly spaced punctures, each elytron 

 with a more distinct median subdenuded area just behind the middle. Abdo- 

 men mottled with dense and sparse patches of long white pubescence. Legs 

 sparsely pubescent, the femora narrowly and densely annulate at apical third. 

 Length 8.4-9.4 mm. ; width 2.5-2.7 mm. 



Florida (Lake Worth). Mr. W. Jiilich. 



Rather closely allied to fossus, and resembling that species in 

 genera] form and in the more subdenuded discal spot of the elytra, 

 but differing decidedly in its more slender form, much more elon- 

 gate and conical prothorax, narrowly impressed in the middle 

 throughout the length, in its shorter, more squamiform, very much 

 sparser and less mottled vestiture, and in the sparse punctuation of 

 the beak in both sexes. A female of this species was placed by 

 LeConte with the unique type of fossus under the impression that 

 it might be the female of that species ; but, as I have before me 

 both sexes, it is readily seen to be quite different. 



27 L.. nitidulus n. sp. — Moderately slender, convex, elongate-oval, 

 strongly shining, black throughout, the antennae dull rufo piceous ; vesti- 

 ture sparse, pubiform on the anterior parts, very short and coarse on the 

 elytra where it is distinctly nucleated or mottled, rather denser near the sides 

 of the body, with a broad subdenuded line bordering the denser lateral vitta 

 and continuous throughout the pronotum and elytra. Head and beak rather 

 finely but strongly, sparsely punctured, not transversely impressed between 

 the eyes but with a deep elongate interocular fovea, and another between the 

 antennse ; beak rather long and slender, cylindrical, feebly arcuate, equal in 

 length to the prothorax, with a narrow impunctate median line ; antennse 

 inserted at the middle, the scrobes extending full}' to apical two-fifths. Pro- 

 thorax but slightly wider than long, the sides convergent from base to apex, 

 feebly arcuate, and slightly constricted near the apex, the latter truncate, 

 three-fifths as wide as the base which is broadly, feebly cusped in the middle ; 

 disk finely, moderately densely, strongly punctulate and with somewhat 

 sparse deep and moderately coarse punctures, the basal impression small 

 but deep, just before the scutellum, the latter indistinct. Elytra about three 

 times as long as the prothorax and scarcely at all wider than the latter, 

 nearly two and one-half times as long as wide, rather gradually and nar- 

 rowly parabolic and broadly feebly notched at apex ; sides parallel and 

 straight, the humeri very feebly, longitudinally tumid ; disk rather broadly 

 and distinctly impressed in the middle at base, and having rows of coarse 

 deep, rather distant punctures, the series becoming impressed near the apex. 

 Abdomen clothed with longer hair, very sparsely except at the sides of the last 

 three segments, where it becomes dense. Legs moderate, sparsely clothed 

 with short very fine hair, denser toward the under surface of the femora at 

 apical third. Length 9.3 mm. ; width 2.8 mm. 



