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suture, a fine fuscous line along the sutural series of impressed 
punctures, and a large faint irregular infuscate cloud on the disk 
extending from just before the middle nearly to apex. Body 
beneath black; legs rufo-piceous; antennae rufous with the outer 
joints infuscate. Integuments shining above and below. Disk 
of pronotum and elytra moderately densely punctured with 
rather fine punctures which may become sparse on the pronotum 
at middle, and which scarcely vary in size on the elytra except 
for the distinctly impressed sutural and discal series; meta- 
sternum, coxal plates, and sides of ventral segments coarsely 
punctured; epi pleurae more finely but rather closely punctured. 
Hind femora finely strigose in both sexes. 
d characters : pro- and mesotarsi a little broader than in the 
9 , claws small and unmodified; front femur broader than in the 
9 , shining and bent downward apically, deeply transversely im- 
pressed on the anterior face a little before apex, posterior face 
with a longitudinal line of long silky pubescence near the upper 
margin and a shorter one apically near the lower margin; front 
tibia a little broader than in the 9 , with a longitudinal line of 
silky pubescence along the middle of the posterior face; middle 
femur sinuate and produced downward (inward) in a small 
shining lobe at apex, broadly lobed below at base, the lobe flat- 
tened and punctate on the anterior face; middle tibia nearly 
parallel sided except for a small lobe internally near base; hind 
femur broader than in the 9 ; hind tibia with sexual pubescence 
along the lower edge. 
9 characters : no unusual modifications except that the 
middle tibia is slightly broadened at base where it is lobed in the 
d\ 
Length: 4. 1-3.2 mm. Width: 2. 0-1. 6 mm. Holotype: 
4. 0 x 2. 0 mm. 
Holotype d and allotype 9 no. 15948 in the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology, collected by Professor C. T. Brues in 
“Hot Spring no. 23-a; Temperature 30°; 37 mi. So. of Battle 
Mtn., Nevada.” Paratypes: 2 9 ’s with the same data as the 
holotype; 6 d’s, 2 9 ’s from “Hot Spring no. 20; Temperature 
38 ; 29 mi. So.' of Winnemucca, Nevada,” also collected by 
Professor Brues. Paratypes to be deposited in the Museum of 
