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Casey : North American Coleoptera. 
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not very close-set. Length 1.5-1.7 mm.; width 0.65-.75 mm. Vancouver 
Island, Washington State and Northern California. soror, sp. nov. 
24— Male. —Black and shining, the anterior parts picescent; legs and antennae pale ; 
bristles rather sparse, short and somewhat inconspicuous anteriorly, longer on 
the elytra; head well developed, the minute clypeal tubercles separated by a 
fifth of the width; prothorax nearly as in soror but fully two-fifths wider than 
long, the punctures strong and well separated ; elytra suboval, not more than 
two-fifths longer than wide, rather wider than the prothorax and distinctly more 
than twice as long; punctures only moderately coarse but deep and quite 
sparse. Length 1.6-1.75 mm - 5 width 0.75 mm. New York. 
curtula, sp. nov. 
2 5 — Anterior tibiae everted and acute externally at apex; hairs very long, a fifth or 
sixth as long as the entire width of the elytra. Male. —Body stout, cylindric, 
polished, piceous in color, the vestiture very long and bristling, abundant; head 
and eyes moderately developed; front feebly concave; clypeus with two long 
slender erect and widely separated processes; prothorax slightly wider than 
long, the sides just visibly convergent and nearly straight from base nearly to 
the apex, then rounding and strongly convergent to a trapezoidal and obliquely 
upturned lamina, which is subtriangularly emarginate at tip; surface with 
rather strong and close-set punctures, feebly impressed at apex behind the 
lamina; elytra short, cylindric, obtuse at apex, two-fifths longer than wide, as 
wide as the prothorax and three-fifths longer, the punctures rather coarse, even, 
moderately close-set, the surface not at all rugose. Female. —Smaller than the 
male, the clypeus feebly reflexed at each side ; prothorax shorter and more trans¬ 
verse, simple. Length 1.75-2.1 mm.; width 0.75-0.9 mm. Florida (Lake 
w °rth).....hirsuta, sp. nov. 
Anterior tibiae simple at apex, not dilated or produced ; hairs shorter, about an eighth 
as long as the entire width of the elytra. Female. —Oblong oval, moderately 
convex, shining, pale rufo-testaceous, the vestiture only moderately abundant 
and not dense; head moderate, the eyes small; clypeal margin feebly reflexed 
at each side ; prothorax nearly one-half wider than long, parabol cally rounded 
at apex, the sides becoming parallel and nearly stra ; gbt behind the middle ; 
punctures fine and ra'her sparse, elytra suboval, rather ogival at tip, two-fifths 
longer than wide, rather wider than the prothorax and more than twice as long, 
the punctures somewhat coarse but feeble, well separated ; humeral callus rather 
small and feeble. Length I 4 mm.; width o 65 mm. Alabama. 
ursulina, sp. nov. 
Fuscipes is our most abundant species, and the west coast impressa 
resembles it very much in external appearance. Mellie states that the 
anterior margin of the head in the male of fascipes is surmounted by 
two very small tubercles; this is not the case in the representatives be¬ 
fore me, but as Mellie included with his American specimens some 
from Madeira, it is probable that he had one of these under observa¬ 
tion, and that it is a species different from fuscipes. Vitula of Manner- 
heim, is assigned to Enneartliron in the Henshaw list, but without 
