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habit the ocean beaches from Alaska to Lower California and, 

 besides fucicola Makl., and the type of the genus, pallidipes Csy., 

 there are in my collection five other species as follows: 



Tarphiota debilicollis n. sp. General form and size, sculpture and opacity 

 as in pallidipes and fucicola, but with the pro thorax relatively much smaller; 

 eyes at nearly their own length from the base; antennae similarly small, 

 not longer than the head and prothorax, the latter shorter and more trans- 

 verse, distinctly wider than the head but also much narrower than the elytra, 

 similarly widest before the middle and rectilinearly narrowing basally; 

 elytra also shorter and more transverse, though much longer than the pro- 

 thorax; abdomen much narrower than the elytra, perfectly parallel, with 

 straight sides throughout, the reticulation similarly rather coarse but feeble, 

 the lustre of its surface slightly shining, the fine punctures asperulate; legs 

 very pale piceo-flavate. Length- (extended) 3.3 mm.; width 0.75 mm. 

 Vancouver Island (Victoria), Wickham. 



The legs in a good series of fucicola before me, from Queen Char- 

 lotte Islands, are as constantly piceous in color as those of pallidipes 

 are pale flavate, and this is a good character distinguishing these 

 two species, which otherwise resemble each other considerably. 

 The present species can be known at once by the smaller, shorter 

 and more transverse prothorax and the more perfectly parallel 

 abdomen. 



The four following species are minute when compared w r ith the 

 preceding and, on first sight, might be thought to differ generically; 

 but all the essential generic characters are reproduced in them. 



Tarphiota litorina n. sp. Moderately slender, black and opaque, the ab- 

 domen feebly shining, the legs and antennae piceous, the latter pale basally; 

 head slightly transverse, orbicular, the eyes moderate; antennas short, 

 throughout nearly as in the larger species; prothorax moderately transverse, 

 evidently though not very greatly wider than the head and narrower than 

 the elytra, the sides parallel, more evenly rounded but still evidently rather 

 more prominent near apical third, the median line feebly and not very finely 

 impressed; elytra parallel, nearly as long as wide, much longer than the 

 prothorax; abdomen rather slender, much narrower than the elytra, almost 

 perfectly parallel, the small asperulate punctures somewhat close. Length 

 2.0 mm.; width 0.48 mm. California (San Francisco Bay). 



This species has the pubescence very short as usual, rather closely 

 decumbent and not at all conspicuous, but in the following, w r hich 

 I regard as a subspecies, the pubescence is notably long and shaggy: 



T. hirsutula n. subsp. General form, coloration and dense opacity as in 

 litorina, but a little smaller and with the dark gray and rather stiff 

 pubescence distinctly longer and more conspicuous, the prothorax rather 



