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placed and bearing moderately long hairs; elytra a little wider than 

 the prothorax, oblong, the sides very slightly arcuate; striae fine, 

 the intervals flat and regularly, closely and biseriately punctate, 

 each puncture with a rather long semi-erect hair; prothorax beneath 

 very coarsely and deeply punctate, the metasternum at the sides 

 coarsely punctate; abdomen laterally more sparsely punctulate. 

 Length 7 mm. California (San Joaquin valley). More slender than 

 obtusus and with longer hairs pilosus Horn 



7 Form oblong-elongate, rather longer and narrower than dilatatus but 

 otherwise very similar in habitus, dark red-brown throughout above 

 and beneath, except the elytra, which are always black; upper surface 

 shining, the hairs long, fulvous, erect and bristling; head three-fifths 

 as wide as the prothorax, with moderate eyes and somewhat long 

 neck, which is very smooth transversely at base; surface almost 

 uniformly, very coarsely but not closely punctate; antennae long 

 but rather thick, extending to basal fifth of the elytra; prothorax a 

 fourth to third wider than long, the sides rounded anteriorly, oblique 

 posteriorly, becoming deeply sinuate before the basal angles, which 

 are consequently right, sharply defined and prominent; base trans- 

 verse, much narrower than the feebly sinuato-truncate apex; surface 

 with very coarse, deep, sparse and irregularly distributed punctures; 

 margins very finely reflexed and without marginal gutter throughout 

 the length; basal parts not at all modified; elytra about one-half 

 longer than wide, just visibly wider than the prothorax, parallel, 

 obtusely rounded at apex, without trace of sinus; striae not very fine, 

 deep, abrupt, the scutellar long, free; intervals nearly flat, shining 

 (9 ), the punctures of the series very coarse, widely and irregularly 

 spaced, more irregularly disposed than in any other species and 

 frequently confused; the intervals are alternately narrower and 

 wider; on the narrower ones there is but a single medial series, either 

 regular or irregular; abdomen finely, sparsely punctulate; joints 

 2-4 of the hind tarsi very short, the hind tibial spurs very slender and 

 simple. Length (9) 7.8-10.5 mm.; width 2.8-3.4 mm - California 

 (San Diego). Six examples angulatus n. sp. 



8 Elytra shorter, not one-half longer than wide, rather stout, moder- 

 ately convex, dull black, the under surface piceous, the legs and 

 antennae rufous; head short, with moderate eyes, about two-thirds 

 as wide as the prothorax, strongly and rather sparsely punctate, 

 the punctures smaller but not wanting centrally, the epistoma with a 

 single puncture at the angles, broadly impunctate medially; antennae 

 rather stout; prothorax as in picens throughout but duller in lustre 

 and not quite so convex; elytra also as in piceus but shorter, rela- 

 tively much broader and duller in lustre, two-fifths longer than wide, 

 fully a third wider than the prothorax, subparallel, with broadly 

 arcuate sides and very obtuse apex, the sinus feeble but distinct; 

 striae fine, the scutellar long, the intervals slightly convex, the punc- 

 tures of the two series rather small, widely and very irregularly 

 spaced in the series; abdomen strongly, rather closely and only 

 moderately finely punctate throughout; prosternum coarsely, closely 



