6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO 



P. propinquus n. sp. 



Piceous, elytra variegated with testaceous, somewhat thinly clothed 

 with brown and grayish white recumbent hairs, the latter, however, 

 condensed in a fascia at the anterior third of the elytra, running ob- 

 liquely forward exteriorly to a point beneath the humeral umbone, but 

 not reaching the side margin. The fascia is sharply denned posteriorly, 

 but anteriorly merges into an area of pale hairs within the humeri. 

 Behind the fascia the surface is irregularly variegated with pale and 

 dark shades, the paler color predominating toward the apex. Entire 

 upper surface with scattered longer erect blackish hairs, the legs and 

 antennae with hairs of moderate length. Antennae as long as the body 

 ( 9 ), joints pale at base, the scape nearly three times as long as wide. 

 Prothorax slightly transverse, lateral and discal prominences moder- 

 ately strong, but not acute, median line with a small oval polished 

 tubercle at posterior third. Elytra tricostate, the lateral costae strong, 

 the inner one much less so and bearing a series of four tufts of short 

 erect black hairs, disk sparsely moderately punctured between the cos- 

 tae ; elytral apices emarginate, the outer angle more distinct than the 

 inner. Femora black, pale at base; tibiae annulate; basal joint of hind 

 tarsi nearly as long as the next two. Abdomen without erect hairs, 

 last segment ( $ ) with a transverse apical f ovea. Length g mm. ; 

 width 3 mm. 



San Bernardino Mountains, California, 6200 feet. A single 

 female collected by Mr. Joseph Grinnell. This species is 

 rather closely allied to peiiiccllatus, but sufficiently distinct by 

 the lateral costa subinterrupted at base, and by the different 

 disposition of the pale markings. 



P. pictus n sp. 



Closely related to mixtus, and hitherto regarded as a form 

 of that species. It seems 'to differ constantly from the latter 

 in the denser whiter sub-basal area which broadly reaches the 

 suture but fails to attain the side margin ; the dark areas are 

 also blacker and contrast more strongly with the white mark- 

 ings. The elytra are more evidently subcostate than in mi.r- 

 tus, the lateral costa being quite well marked though obtuse, 

 and the antennal scape is as a rule shorter and more thickened 

 apically, being but slightly more than twice as long as wide. 

 The size is little greater than in the average mi.vtus. Three 

 specimens arc before me bearing labels as follows : "Telluride, 



