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eighth longer than wide, strial ijunctures moderately coarse, intervals feebly 

 convex, wider than the stria' on the disk, scarcely so at sides, finely transversely 

 wrinkled. Legs pale, femora more distinctK' punctate than usual. Length 

 2 nnn.; width 1.2 mm. 



A good series of this \ery line species was taken at Redwood Park, Cali- 

 fornia, by my friend Mr. J. O. Martin, to whom it is a pleasure to dedicate the 

 species. 



Of our prtxiously described species, piincticollis alone possesses an equally 

 I)road form, but in it the tliora.x is much less conspicuously narrowed behind 

 than in martini, and the surface is not alutaceous. The terminal joint of the 

 maxillary palpus in the present species is unusually short, not, or only just 

 perceptibh' longer than wide, not narroAved apicall\\ the tip broadly arcuato- 

 truncatc. In this respect it differs from every other species with which I have 

 compared it, though most nearly approached by pimcticollis. In this connection 

 it may be remarked that the \ery unique marine Ochthebius lapidicolus, recently 

 described by Van Dyke, has also aberrant maxillary palpi, the terminal joint 

 very small, short and pointed. 



O. fossatns Lee. An examination of the t\'pe of this species described in 

 1855 from Ft. Yuma, Cal., shows that it is not the same as nitidus, with which 

 it was united by LeConte, but is really identical w^ith the closely allied tuber- 

 ctdatiis and foveicollis, described in 1878, the former from New Mexico, the 

 latter from Florida. Horn correctly united tiiberculains and foveicollis in his 

 revision of the genus in 1890, choosing to retain the latter name, although 

 tuberculatus takes page precedence. Both these names, therefore, fall into 

 synonymy, and fossatns must be restored to the List. 



0. nitidus Lee. This seems the proper place to say that the drawing of 

 the thorax of this species, Fig. 7, in the plate accompanying Horn's paper shows 

 that the author must have had something entirely different in hand. The 

 thorax in nitidus is closely similar to that shown of foveicollis, Fig. 2, differing 

 only in the discal fovea^ being smaller and more widely separated. The textual 

 description of the thorax harmonizes completely with the plate; in the de- 

 scription of the elytra, however, special mention is made of the unusually smooth 

 apex, which is the most characteristic feature of the true nitidus. Whether this 

 latter character was taken from the specimen in hand or was mereh' trans- 

 cribed from LeConte is now a question. 



Sapriniis rugosifrons, sp. nov. (Horn's Group IV). 



Rather broadly oval, convex, polished black, the legs dark rufous. Head 

 rather densely substrigosely rugose, marginal stria feebly traceable at sides of 

 the front. Prothorax distinctly less than twice as wide as long, punctures 

 rather closely placed throughout, rather al)ruptly longitudinally strigose in 

 about the lateral fifth, much finer toward the middle, with coarser punctures 

 along the base, and a few in a \ague longitudinal median impression, which is 

 most evident basally. Elytra about one-third wider than long, sides broadh' 

 arcuate, more strongly so about the humeri, fineh' punctate basally, becoming 

 gradually more densely and coarsely so at apex, where the interstitial surface 

 is fineh- alutaceous. First dorsal stria attaining the apical fourth; second, third 

 and fourth stricc progressively slightly shorter, the fourth arcuately joining the 

 sutural which is shVhtlv nbl)reviated at apex; oblique numeral .w'ell impressed 



