1928] 
Two New Clavicorns from the United States 
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Cryptophagus maximus, new species. 
Large (4 mm.), elongate, slightly convex, shining, reddish 
brown with short, moderately dense, but fine and recumbent, 
yellowish pubescence and coarse punctation. Head coarsely 
punctate both above and below, and especially pubescent over 
frons; eyes moderately small; no trace of median or transverse 
sutures on frons; a triangular projection below antennae and in 
front of eyes, ending in a sharp point on either side of maxillary 
palpi, the latter well-developed. Antennae about one-third 
Fig. 1. — A. Cryptophagus maximus, (a) male hind tarsus, (b) ventral surface showing 
trochanters and abdominal segments. B. Pharaxonotha zamiae, (a) male (?) anterior tarsus, 
(b) hind tarsus. 
length of beetle with loose 3-jointed club, the last two segments 
of club being approximately same width, slightly wider than 
first joint of club, and markedly wider than preceding segments; 
first antennal segment large, globose, second one-third smaller, 
third longer than any other except first. Prothorax somewhat 
wider than long with thickened lateral and basal margins ; lateral 
margin at apical angle considerably thickened and reflexed form- 
ing an obliquely truncate apex, the sides narrowing and becoming 
subparallel behind, and again a little below middle projecting to 
form a subacute nodule, from this thickened nodule side nar- 
