

Vol. XLVIII. LONDON, JUNE, 1916 No. 6 



NEW SPECIES OF THE FAMILY IPID^ (COLEOPTERA)* 



Part III. 



BY J. M. SWAINE, 

 ENTOMOLOGICAL BRANCH, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OTTAWA. 



Pityokteines jasperi, n. sp. 



A small, very slender species, closely allied to sparsiis Lee; 

 with the elytra very closely, regularly, deeply punctured behind. 



Description of the female — Length, 2.3 mm.; width, .7 mm.; 

 colour, dark piceous, nearly black, with the antennae and legs 

 paler. The head has the front plano-convex, densely very finely 

 granulate, with a small median tubercle, ^,nd thickly clothed with 

 very long curved yellow hairs much as in sparsus; the antennal 

 club thickened basally, very obliquely truncate and depressed 

 apically, with the sutures confined to the apical depressed outer 

 surface. 



The pronotum is distinctly longer than wide, with the sides 

 straight on the basal half, broadly evenly rounded in front; coarsely, 

 rather densely, and irregularly asperate in front; rather coarsely, 

 moderately closely and deeply punctured behind, more finely 

 near the rather wide smooth median line; with sparse long hairs 

 about the sides and in front, and the front margin densely fringed 

 with long curved yellow hairs. 



The elytra are elongate, with the sides parallel beyond the 

 middle, the stria:; narrowly faintly impressed, the sutural striae 

 distinctly deeper and wider, the strial punctures of median size, 

 very close on the disc, and deep; the interstrial punctures regularly 

 uniseriate, deep, as large as those of the stria; and nearly as close 

 on the caudal half, as close and granulate near the declivity, a 

 little smaller and less numerous towards the base. The declivity is 

 steep, convex, with the suture elevated and granulate and the 



*Contributions from the Entomological Branch, Department of Agriculture, 

 Ottawa. 



