THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 153 DESCRIPTIONS OF EIGHT NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA IN THE FAMILY MORDELLID/E. BY EMIL LILJEBLAD, CHICAGO, ILL. In the course of the writer's studies of the Mordellidse, several collections have been submitted to me. Among these, there are several new species, which are described in this paper. Five of these, from Texas and New Mexico, are from the collection of Mr. J. W. Green; three species, two from the Atlantic Coast, and one from the Pacific Ccast, are described from the collections of C. A. Frost, F. R. Mason, and F. W. Nunenmacher. Diclidia propinqua, sp. nov. Moderately elongate, clothed with very fine silvery pubescence, finely , transversely strigate ; head behind the antennae dark reddish brown; mouth-parts testaceous; maxillary palpi scalene; antennae testaceous, first and second joints equal, each one-third shorter than the third, third and fourth equal, fifth one-third shorter than the fourth, sixth a little shorter than the fifth, seventh to tenth equal, converging towards the apex, eleventh elongate, pointed at tip, one-third longer than the seventh; thorax testaceous, sides rounded and rapidly converging from the middle to apex; meso-sternum very little compressed and elevated; elytra with scutellar cloud, the suture to middle, a median band, and the apex, black; legs testaceous; abdomen black, or very dark brown; sixth ventral segment not visible. Length 3^ mm. Two female specimens from Jemez Mts., New Mexico, July 12-18; collected by Mr. John Woodgate. The type is in the possession of the writer; the paratype is in the collection of Mr. J. W. Green, from whom the specimens where received . This species is most closely allied to Diclidia Icetula Lee, but can readily be distinguished from it by the character of the an-tennal joints, and by the colour of the elytra (which are pale at the apex in D. Icetula). Diclidia greeni, sp. nov. Moderately elongate (more robust in the female) ; nearly entirely testaceous or flavo-testaceous (except in some specimens, which have an indication of a dark, transverse cloud near the apex May 191S
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