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Bephratoides Xew Genus. 
Related to Bephrata Cameron, but differing in the form of 
the anterior femora which are greatly swollen, as large as the 
posterior ones, grooved beneath for the reception of the tibiae 
and denticulate below for their entire length. Head and thorax 
coarsely punctate : metanotum short, abruptly declivous, with a 
deep median sulcus ; pronotum as long as the scutellum and 
slightly contracted posteriorly. Antennae inserted above the 
middle of the face, ii-jointed, with one ring joint ; joints or 
flagellum long, cylindrical, the first two-thirds the length of the 
scape. Abdomen oval as long as the thorax, greatly compressed, 
in side view liigher than the thorax, but seen from above it is onl\- 
about one-third as broad as the pronotum ; eighth segment reduced 
into a small stylus or aculeus. Wings with marginal, stigmal and 
postmarginal veins long. 
Type species. — B. maciilatus, sp. nov. 
Bephratoides maculatus sp. nov. 
Length o mm. Black, marked with yellow ; leg's mostly yellow : 
Tiead transverse, a little more than two times as broad as thick and 
somewhat broader than high. Occiput deeply arcuately emarginate 
between the eyes, the emargination extending halfway to the front of 
the head ; ocelli in a curb ed line, close to the emargination of the occi- 
put, equidistant from each other and the eye-margin. Antennae fili- 
form. 11-jointed. black except the basal three-fourths of the scape and 
the tip of the pedicel : first flagellar joint three times as long as thick, 
second two-thirds as long as the first, follo^\ing growing shorter grad- 
ually to the club-joints which decrea-se raj^idly. Eyes ovate, nearly 
circular, bare ; but little longer than the cheeks ; front above the 
antennae with a deep groove for the reception of the antennal scapes. 
Pace nearh' flat, coarseh' confluently punctate and sparsely clothed 
■v\'ith stiff white hairs. ^Nlalar gTOOve present. Head behind A\ith 
raised margin which however does not extend to the occiput. ^land- 
ibles stoat, obliquely truncate at the tip, with two faintly indicated 
teeth at the apex. Palpi slender, short : front and vertex sculptured 
like the face : occiput smooth or faintly vertically aciculated. Pro- 
thorax two-thirds as wide as the head, one-half broader than long and 
quite distinctly narrowed posteriorly, its surface coarsely punctured, 
most roughly so along the median line, the pimctures gTowing smal- 
ler laterally and on the pleurae, near the coxa? giving' place to fine 
transverse aciculations. ^lesonotum evenly punctate, its punctures 
the size of those along the sides of the pronotum, a little shorter 
than the pronotum and one-fourth broader than the pronotum behind 
where it is much widened. Scutellum and axillae punctate like the 
