June, 1898.] 
Casey : North American Coleoptera. 
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Xestocis, gen. nov. 
A few species of peculiar facies are separated under this name, be¬ 
cause of the prosternal carination. The antennae are of the normal 
structure, with the club well developed and the second funicular joint 
only slightly longer than wide. The anterior tibiae are strongly oblique 
and acute externally at apex, except in opalescens , where the external 
angle is slightly thickened and rounded. The maxillary palpi are usually 
rather slender. The first ventral segment is subfoveate and densely pu¬ 
bescent at the centre of the disk in the males. Our five species are 
strongly differentiated among themselves, and may be described as fol¬ 
lows : — 
Boby glabrous . 
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Body clothed with short pubescence or bristles. . 3 
a—Clypeus bidentafe in the male, the prothorax simple and rounded at apex in both 
sexes. Male.— Suboval,very dark rufo piceous, sometimes paler, polished; head 
and eyes moderately developed; protliorax two-fifths wider than long, the sides 
just visibly convergent from base to the obtuse apical angles, rather distinctly and 
evenly arcuate; lateral margin very fine, the base finely margined, more dis¬ 
tinctly in the middle ; punctures minute and rather sparse ; elytra less than one- 
half longer than wide, twice as long as the prothorax and barely wider, rather 
narrowly rounded at apex, very feebly subrugulose, minutely, sparsely punctate. 
Length I.5-I.9 mm.; width 0.7-0.85 mm. Canada (Toronto), New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Indiana and Iowa. levettei, sp. nov. 
)peus monocerate in the male, the prothorax with two long slender porrect pro¬ 
cesses. Male. Oblong-oval, convex, testaceous, polished, glabrous, each punc¬ 
ture with an excessively minute hair; head and eyes moderately developed, the 
front impunctate, broadly concave, the clypeus reflexed, with a long erect par¬ 
allel process at the middle, feebly expanding toward apex, the latter very feebly 
emargmate ; prothorax distinctly wider than long, the sides moderately conver¬ 
gent and evenly arcuate throughout, the apex prolonged over the head and with 
two long remote straight and porrect processes, the surface behind their separating 
sinus broadly impressed ; punctures fine, not very sparse ; elytra short, one third 
longer than wide, twice as long as the prothorax at the median line and some¬ 
what wider, rather rapidly and narrowly rounded at apex, the sides arcuate ; 
, surface nearly smooth, minutely, rather sparsely punctate. Female.— Nearly 
similar to the male, the clypeus broadly sinuate at the middle, the prothorax 
broadly rounded at apex. Length 1.2-1.35 mm.; width 0.55-0.6 mm. Penn¬ 
sylvania (Westmoreland Co ) and Rhode Island (Boston Neck).. miles, sp. nov. 
0 Lpper surface normal ; vestiiure distinct, even but arranged without order ; punc¬ 
tures of the eljtra intermingled with larger sparse punctures, which are’ some¬ 
times disposed in vague series ; clypeus bidentate in the male.4 
Upper surface covered with a waterproof crust, through which the extremely minute 
simple hairs protrude.. ^ 
] 4 ^ esflture composed of small simple and subdecumbent hairs Male.—Oblong- 
ova], moderately convex, rufo testaceous, feebly shining; prothorax wider than 
