32O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, 'l2 



A new Tetropium, two new Bruchides, with brief 

 notes on other Coleoptera. 



By H. C. FALL, Pasadena, California. 



The following undescribed and very distinct species of 

 Tetropium has recently been sent me by Mr. Ralph Hopping 

 of the Forestry Service in the Sequoia National Park of Cali- 

 fornia, with the statement that it is very destructive to both 

 white and red fir (Abies concolor and A. magnified.) Mr. 

 Hopping requests that it be given a name in order that he 

 may better refer to it in a forthcoming report. 



Tetropium abietis n. sp. 



Dark brown varying to pale brown, but concolorous throughout. 

 Head and prothorax shining and not densely pubescent, the former 

 numerously simply punctate with distinct median sulcus, the latter 

 quite strongly granulate punctate, and with a strongly marked sub- 

 oval impression, which is narrowly smooth and slightly elevated at 

 middle posteriorly. Elytra obviously wider than the prothorax, parallel 

 or slightly narrowed posteriorly, with the usual fine and short ap- 

 pressed pubescence ; luster dull, the discal raised lines distinct but 

 fine; sculpture exceedingly* fine, subgranulose or asperate punctate. 

 Beneath shining, finely punctate, and with longer sparser pubescence. 

 Length, 13 17 mm. ; width, 3.5 4.5 mm. 



Male : Antennae about five-sixths as long as the body, slender, all 

 joints linear or nearly so, second slightly gradually wider apically, 

 twice as long as wide ; third nearly or quite twice as long as the 

 second and more than four times as long as wide. Prothorax varying 

 from distinctly transverse to barely perceptibly so, subangularly 

 rounded at or a little in advance of the middle; femora stout; pygidium 

 obliquely narrowed behind, the apex rather broadly truncate. 



Female: Antennae scarcely longer than half the body, a little more 

 slender than in the male but similarly formed; prothorax with sides 

 more evenly rounded; femora less stout; pygidium with apex broadly 

 evenly rounded in nearly circular arc. 



Described from a series of a dozen specimens taken at 

 Huckleberry Meadow, Fresno Co., California, all bearing date 

 July 19, 1910. This is the most strongly characterized Tetro- 

 pium in our fauna, and at once distinguished from all others 

 by its granulose sculpture and the strong oval prothorac im- 

 pression, the latter somewhat suggestive of Nothorina. 



Bruchus julianus Horn. 



This species was described in 1894 from San Julio and San 

 Tgnacio, Texas. Later, larger specimens from Brownsville 

 were held to be identical and so distributed, and upon these 



