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their inner margins contiguous and their outer angles produced. Py gofers 

 farming a hood over the apex of the plates, armed with a slender tooth 

 dorsally. 



Described from one male and ten female examples taken at 

 Spring Creek, Ga., in June 1911, by Mr. J. G. Bradley, and 

 one male taken by me at Ft. Myers, Fla., in May 1908. 



Oliarus slossoni n. n. 



In 1908 I described in the Proceedings of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (vol. 59, p. 487) an Oliarus 

 taken by Mrs. Slosson at Biscayne Bay, Fla., as O. hyalinus 

 n. sp. ; overlooking the fact that this name was preoccupied for 

 O. hyalinus Fieber of Europe. I therefore now rename the 

 species after its discoverer. The unique male type is I think the 

 only specimen I have seen or that has yet been reported. More 

 recently Mrs. Slosson has sent me for study two smaller but 

 closely allied specimens taken by her in Florida, which I at first 

 thought might be females of this species, but more careful 

 study with related material shows that they are undoubtedly 

 new. For this form I now suggest the name : 



Oliarus difficilis n. sp. 



Smaller than slossoni with the vertex broader, the clypeus 

 proportionately shorter, the mesonotum paler between the 

 lateral carinae and the elytral nervures distinctly punctate. 

 Length 6 mm. 



Vertex much narrower than in slossoni but still at least one and one- 

 half times longer than broad. Front broad, but proportionately longer with 

 a narrower base than in either slossoni or aridus. the median carina 

 distinctly but narrowly forked at base while in both of the allied species 

 this fork is as broad as long and is obscure in aridus and almost 

 obsolete in slossoni. Clypeus scarcely longer than the front, about twice 

 as long in both the allied species; very minutely transversely striate, and 

 viewed from the side or below exhibiting heavy oblique striae. Pronotum 

 very short. Mesonotum triearinate. Elytra proportionately a little broader 

 than in slossoni, the nervures heavy, evidently but not strongly punctate, 

 the anastomoses heavily infuseated; stigma large as in aridus. 



Color pieeous brown, almost black in places; carinas of the head and 

 pronotum, margins of the abdominal segments, tegulae and apex of the 

 mesonotum testaceous; disk of the mesonotum pale castaneous between 

 the lateral carina?; apex of the front with an indefinite paler spot on either 

 side of the base of the clypeus; clypeus almost fulvous in one example. 

 Mesosternum and pleura? whitish as in the allied species. Legs brown, be- 

 coming paler toward their apex, the incisures pallid. Elytra obviously 

 whitish-hyaline, nervures pale, fusco-punctate, infuseated only on the forks, 



