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REVISION OF THE TENEBRIONID7R OF AMERICA, 



This species and the succeeding bear a remarkable resemblance to the figure of Cryp- 

 toglossa bicostata, Ann. Soc. Entom. V., pi. 24, fig. 13, less the two costae of that species. 



C. variolosa,, black, sub-opaque. Head very coarsely and in front densely punctured. Thorax as broad as 

 long, emarginate in front, truncate behind, sides broadly rounded, slightly narrowed behind, angles rectangular, disc 

 feebly convex, very coarsely punctured, becoming more dense at the sides and base. Elytra elongate oval, truncate 

 at base, moderately convex above, declivous behind, surface with regular series of elevated smooth tubercles, becom- 

 ing rather more acute posteriorly, but not spiculate. Hind femora feebly granulate and coarsely punctured within. 

 Mentum convex at middle with an oblique groove each side, and very coarsely and continently punctured. Pro- and 

 mesosternum as in the preceding species. Length .80 inch. 



Rather common at Fort Grant, Arizona. Numerous specimens were collected by my- 

 self during the Winter of 1865. 



C. seriata, Lee, (Cryptoglossa) Proc. Acad. 1801, 337. OocJdla seriala, Lee, List. Ool. N. Am. Smith- 

 sonian Collec. 140, p. 59. 



Differs from our other species by the truncate presternum and the nearly smooth fem- 

 ora. Mentum coarsely but not densely punctured. It cannot be separated from Centri- 

 optcra, and is but one link of the chain that will at no very distant day unite this genus 

 with Cryptoglossa. 



Not rare in Lower California. Collected abundantly by Mr. Win. M. Gabb. 



Length .75-.80 inch. 



C. infausta, Lee, (Asbolus) Proc. Acad. VII, G4. Oochila infausla, Loc, List. p. 50. 



The most robust and least convex of the species of the genus, resembling strongly our 

 species of Cryptoglossa, particularly Icevis, Lee. The elytra are not tuberculate, the hind 

 femora are very coarsely granulate within, the presternum produced. The mentum is 

 coarsely and sparsely punctured, with a slight depression in front. 



A single specimen from Texas. Length .80 inch. 



C. caraboides, Mann., Hull. Mosc. 1843-280, figured in Guerin Menev. Magaz. d. Zool. Ins. 1843, pi. 186. 



This species is unknown to us. It is very probable that spiculi/era, Lee, is identical 

 with it. 



CRYPTOGLOSSA, Sol. 

 Cryptoglossa, Sol., Ann. Soc. Entom. V., (S80. 

 C. verrucosa, Lee, (Asbolus) Ann. Lye. 5-129; Lac. (Crypt.) Gen. Col. V., 138. 



Opaque, elytra with series of elevated tubercles. 

 Abundant along the Gila, under dead Yucca. 

 Length .05-90 inch. 



C. la; vis, Lee, (Asbolus) loc. cit.; Lac. (Crypt.) loc. cit. 



Smooth, shining. Elytra entirely smooth. Not rare at Fort Yuma, Cal., under logs 

 and stones. 



Length .65-.70 inch. 



