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and the surface between themuneven; thorax, anterior angles are 

 rounded off, and the lateral edges have four denticulations, the 

 basal tooth largest; elytra punctate, punctures somewhat shallow 

 and rugose, black variegated with luteous patches, he region of 

 the scutellum being usually dark. The head beneath has, in com- 

 mon with other species of the genus, a wide, smooth Space bor- 

 dered by an area of large punctures. There are no foveae in the 

 mentum in the male. Hab. Kiushiu. 



0. fasciatus Bland. Proc. Ent. Soc. III, 1864, p. 253. Body 

 piceous, shining; elytra fulvous, with brownish markings. 



Hab. Virginia. — Head shining, deeply punctured, clothed 

 with golden pubescence; clypeus, and in front of the eyes, rufous; 

 between the eyes, piceous-brown ; eyes black; palpi fulvous; an- 

 tennae, ord joint equal in length to the 4th, 5th, and 6th com- 

 bined. Thorax piceous, shining, deeply punctured; lateral margins 

 nearly straight; anterior and basal margins slightly rufous. Scu- 

 tellum dark brown. Elytra closely punctured, clothed with yel- 

 lowish pubescence; humeri prominent; a brownish spot between 

 the humerus and scutellum; a dark brown band on the lateral 

 margins, diverging to the suture on the centre, forming an uneven 

 transverse band; posterior fourth dark brown, with a small ful- 

 vous dot confluent with the suture; tip fulvous; beneath piceous, 

 coarsely punctured, ventral segments reddish-brown. Legs ful- 

 vous. Length 1% -2V4 Hnes. 



0. (Elacatis) longicornis G. Horn. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. III, 

 1871, p. 334. — Dark brownish testaceous, shining, sparsely clothed 

 with greyish hairs. Form moderately elongate, subdepressed par- 

 allel. Head large, densely punctured, darker in colour than tho 

 rest of the body. Antennae as long as half the body, slender, 

 scarcely clavate, joints gradually broader to tip; third joint very 

 long, as long as the three following together; color yellowish. 

 Thorax slightly broader than long, sides parallel in front, sinuate 

 near base, bind angles slightly prominent, margin rounded, sub- 

 acute only near the base; surface moderately punctured. Elytra 

 brownish, paler than the thorax, ornamented with irregularly 

 placed pale spots; surface punctured rather closely but irregularly. 

 Body beneath piceous shining, sparsely punctulate. — r Length, 

 12 (cJ). — . 18 inch; 3 -4,5 mm. Fort Yuma, California. 



0. guttulatus Lee. Gass. Col. N. Am. I, 1861, p. 103. — 

 I found under decomposing Opuntia leaves, at San Diego, Cali- 

 fornia, a second species of this genus, of rather broader form, with 

 the elytra yellowish testaceous, variegated with small black spots. 

 The specimen has been lost, and J am therefore unable to describe 

 it more closely. If rediscovered, and recognized by the notes here 

 given, it may be called Othnius guttulatus. 



0. umbrosus Lee. 1. c. — A small insect ( . 22 inch. long), 

 of elongate form and brownish-black color, with slight brassy 

 tinge, coarsely punctured, and irregularly clothed with short 



