Memoirs on the coleoptera

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elytron there ;
MEMOIRS ON THE COLEOPTERA
are also a few moderately long
erect stiff tactile
hairs arising from coarser punctures, arranged linearly among the
smaller and closer punctures, a series along the sutural margin
being especially conspicuous; according, however, to Mr. Schaeffer,
the antennae would seem to be much more flattened and distally
carinate than in any other, making a closer approach to Aneflus
in this respect. The two species first described below are consistent
allies of subpubescens and the third is also very similar in every way,
except in the structure of the elytral apices and in the stronger
subbasal antennal carina.
Aneflomorpha seminuda n. sp. Form as in subpubescens but smaller
and relatively still narrower, pale brownish-testaceous throughout; head
and prothorax very densely, subrugosely punctate and with moderate
even subdecumbent hairs, the latter cylindric, about a sixth longer than
wide, the sides very feebly prominent at the middle and slightly rounding
at apex, the surface very evenly, coarsely and confluently punctate
throughout, the walls of the punctures entire at their posterior but
generally open at their anterior margins; antennse (cT) about as long as
the body, slender, the spines very small, wanting after the fifth joint,
the third two-fifths longer than the fourth; scutellum rounded, very
densely and pallidly pubescent; elytra perfectly parallel, with straight
sides, more than three times as long as the prothorax and not quite two-
fifths wider, the punctures rather coarse, deep, separated by scarcely
more than their diameters basally, becoming gradually very fine and
relatively less close at the apices, the latter narrowly and rather deeply
sinuate, the sinuses limited at each side by equal and acutely dentiform
angles, which are not at all spiniform; femora slender, scarcely
at all
spinose at apex; fifth ventral (a 71
) with the rectilinearly truncate apex
only half as wide as the base. Length (c?) 13.8 mm.; width 2.6 mm.
Texas.
To be known easily by the slender parallel form and short,
decumbent, well separated hairs and virtual absence of erect hairs;
the antennal spines are smaller, the pronotal punctures coarser
and more confluent and the abdomen laterally much less densely
punctulate and pubescent than in subpubescens, the abdomen being
very uniformly, finely, sparsely punctate and pubescent throughout.
Aneflomorpha longipennis n. sp. Form and coloration nearly as in
the preceding but with relatively longer elytra and shorter anterior
parts, also slightly greater 'convexity; head and prothorax very densely,
confluently punctate throughout, the latter only very slightly longer than
wide, parallel, the sides becoming feebly arcuate medially, the pallid
hairs rather coarse, subdecumbent and well separated, very even throughout;
antennae (cT) not quite as long as the body, very slender, the outer
joints filiform, not compressed and unmodified, the spines of joints