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flat, generally rather 'more than twice as wide as the grooves, 

 minutely sparsely and confusedly punctate. Prosternum rather 

 widely, very deeply and abruptly excavated anteriorly, the anterior 

 coxae small and separated by two-thirds of their own width. Length 

 2.5-2.8 mm.; width 1.3-1.5 mm. 



Massachusetts to Virginia ; five specimens, exhibiting compara- 

 tively little variation. 



4 Stethobaris congermana n. sp.— Suboval, moderately robust, 

 rather strongly convex, black, polished and glabrous, the legs slightly pice- 

 ous. Head finely, sparsely but distinctly punctate, the transverse impression 

 feeble but distinct, the beak somewhat stout, evenly, moderately arcuate, as 

 long as the prothorax in the male, about one-fourth longer in the female, 

 densely, deeply punctured at the sides, the antennae inserted at the middle in 

 the female or just beyond in the male, nearly as in ovata, the club a little 

 shorter than the entire funicle. Protliorax subcorneal, two-thirds wider than 

 long, the sides rapidly convergent and very feebly arcuate from the base to 

 the strong apical constriction, the apex tubulate and one-half as wide as the 

 base, the latter transverse, bisinuate and somewhat trilobed, the median lobe 

 stronger than the lateral, rounded ; disk rather finely, deeply, somewhat 

 closely punctured, the median impunctate line subobsolete. Scutellum small, 

 quadrate, truncate behind and with a deep lunate impression in apical half. 

 Elytra, just behind the basal margin, one-fifth wider than the prothorax, two 

 and one-half times longer than the latter and distinctly longer than wide, the 

 humeri rather prominent ; sides thence distinctly convergent and broadly 

 arcuate to the apex, which is rather suddenly and broadly subtruncate ; disk 

 coarsely, very deeply striate, the grooves conspicuously, remotely punctate, 

 feebly crenulate toward base, the intervals flat, one-half wider than the 

 grooves in the male, nearly twice as wide as the latter in the female, each .with 

 a single series of extremely minute feeble punctures. Prosternum broadly, 

 extremely deeply and abruptly excavated anteriorly, the excavation polished 

 and impunctate, short, rapidly narrowed behind and separating the coxae by not 

 quite two-thirds of their own width. Length 2.8-3.0 mm. ; width 1.5-1.8 mm. 



Massachusetts; New York; Missouri. 



Easily distinguishable from ovata by its very coarse, strongly 

 punctured and subcrenulate elytral striae, with the intervals uniseri- 

 ately punctate throughout, by its less widely separated anterior 

 coxae, less transverse, more rapidly conical and more coarsely, closely 

 and evenly punctate pronotum, without a distinctly marked impunc- 

 tate line, and by several other characters as stated in the table. 



5 Stethobaris egregia n. sp. — Oblong-oval, convex, subglabrous, 

 shining but deeply, densely sculptured, black, the elytra somewhat piceous. 

 Head minutely, sparsely but distinctly punctate, the beak rather coarsely, 

 densely so, with the punctures more or less longitudinally coalescent, strongly, 



