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nearly one-half the mass. Prosternum flat, with a small denuded 

 but unimpressed spot behind the apex, the apical margin with a 

 close series of long broad porrect scales, extending over the basal 

 parts of the head, the anterior coxae rather small, separated by fully 

 three-fourths of their own width. Posterior tibiae normal, slender, 

 finely, acutely dentate externally at apex, with the internal spur 

 distinct. Length 2.8 mm.; width 1.4 mm. 



California — Cab. LeConte. Represented by the unique female 

 type. 



VIII. 

 21 Centrinus capillatus Lee— Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 311. 



Rather narrowly rhomboid-oval, convex, shining, black, the 

 legs and antennae paler, rather sparsely clothed above with long 

 slender white hair-like squamules, which are uniform in size and 

 distribution on the elytra, except a little wider just behind the 

 scutellum, very sparse and slender on the pronotum, becoming a 

 little broader toward base in the middle and at lateral fourth, broad 

 and rather dense on the under surface. Beak in the male slender, 

 strongly arcuate, nearly one-half as long as the body, the antennae 

 inserted well behind the middle, the first funicular joint about as 

 long as the next three, the second more slender, rather more than 

 one-half as long as the first and about equal to the next two, the 

 club small, robust, abrupt, but slightly longer than wide, pale, 

 densely pubescent, with the basal joint constituting distinctly less 

 than one-half the mass. Prothorax rather short, truncate, conical, 

 the sides broadly rounded, the constriction feeble ; disk rather 

 coarsely but not very deeply, moderately closely punctate, with a 

 distinct impunctate line. Elytra a little longer than wide, slightly 

 wider than the prothorax and not quite twice as long, conical, nar- 

 rowly rounded at apex ; disk with deep striae, the intervals nearly 

 three times as wide as the grooves, confusedly but not very densely 

 punctato-rugulose. Prosternum flat, not impressed and without 

 trace of apical constriction, but with a small denuded spot at some 

 distance behind the apex, from which the scales radiate in all direc- 

 tions ; coxae separated by one-half their own width. Length 

 2. , 75-3.0 mm.; width 1.3-1.5 mm. 



Texas. In the female the beak is more abruptly bent near the 

 base. The prosternum in both sexes is perfectly simple before the 

 coxae, and without trace of the " slender cusp" mentioned by LeConte. 



