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long hairs irregularly placed; the upper surface with the basal 

 half corneous with the distal margin nearly straight, sparsely hairy, 

 the distal half densely pubescent, obliquely subtruncate, with two 

 sutures, the first of which is straight, and the second arcuate. 



The pronotum is subcircular, as wide as long, rather strongly 

 produced over the head, very broadly arcuate behind, strongly 

 arcuate on the sides and in front, very strongly convex with the 

 summit slightly behind the centre; very densely, rather finely and 

 somewhat regularly asperate in front of the summit and on the 

 sides behind, coarsely and densely granulate-punctate on the disc 

 behind with the asperities there reduced to granules on the margin 

 of the punctures; the pubescence rather thick and erect, longer in 

 front and on the sides. 



The elytra are as wide as the pronotum, the sides parallel 

 well beyond the middle, then moderately arcuately narrowed and 

 broadly subtruncate behind as viewed from above; the sutural 

 striae wide and rather strongly impressed, the remaining discal 

 striae slightly impressed, the last three on the sides strongly im- 

 pressed; the strial punctures coarse, deep, subquadrate, and very 

 densely placed; the interspaces a little convex, very little wider 

 than the striae, closely, deeply uniseriately punctured, the punc- 

 tures deep, but much smaller than those of the striae, a little coarser 

 on the sides than on the disc; the declivity very steep, flattened 

 from above, with the suture elevated, the sutural striae strongly 

 impressed, the second striae distinctly impressed; the strial punc- 

 tures as coarse as on the disc, the interspaces uniseriately granulate- 

 punctate; rather thickly clothed with erect greyish-pubescence of 

 moderate length. The venter is closely, coarsely, and roughly 

 punctured. 



There is no apparent sexual difference in our specimens, but 

 the front is usually entirely retracted. 



The pronotal asperities are sometimes" coarser than in the type 

 and always very dense; the elytral striae from the second outward 

 are in some hardly perceptibly impressed on the disc, although 

 distinctly impressed in the type. 



Type locality: Sechelt, B. C, Canada; Type number, 2170. 



Dryocoetes pseudotsugae, n. sp.^ — Description of the 

 female type: Length 4.7 mm.; width 1.5 mm.; reddish-brown (not 



