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tured, with the whole central portion broadly and deeply conca\e, 

 but with the margins of the concavity rounded; the median carina 

 well developed and acute extending from between the eyes to the 

 nearly obsolete epistomal lobe ; the pronotum is of the same relative 

 length and width as in the female, but the sides are more nearly 

 parallel behind and more strongly constricted in front; the elytral 

 declivity with the serrations distinctly coarser, with the acute 

 apices directed obliquely caudad. 



Seven females and three males from California, received from 

 Mr. Ralph Hopping; taken in "cedar limbs." Type number, 2171_ 



Phloeosinus vandykei, n. sp. — A small species, with rather 

 sparseh- punctured pronotum and deep harrow stria?. Length, 

 2.2 mm.; width, 1.2 mm. 



Description of the female: The head has the front flattened, 

 coarsely, deeply rather sparsely punctured and granulate; with a 

 low acute median carina becoming prominent on the epistoma; 

 the pubescence short, stiff and erect; the antennal club o\er half 

 as wide as long, 7.5:11, with the first two segments comprising 

 more than one-half the mass; the first two sutures obliquely arcuate, 

 the third more strongly oblique; the septa strongly developed on 

 the first two sutures. 



The pronotum is wider than long, 5:4; with the base bisinuate; 

 the sides broadly rounded on the hinder two-thirds, and narrowed 

 towards the front; constricted behind the front margin, which is 

 very broadly rounded; the disc rather coarsely, deeply, rather 

 sparsely punctured, the punctures finely granulate; the pubescence 

 fine; the median line very finely faintly carinate behind. 



The elytra are 1.4 times as long as wide; the bases arcuate, 

 elevated, and coarsely serrate with the lunar serrations becoming 

 coarser, acute, isolated and strongly oblique on the side; the sides 

 somewhat inflated behind ; the hind margin broadly- rounded as 

 viewed from above; the stria? very narrow and deep, those of the 

 disc outcurved towards the base ; the strial punctures very small ; 

 the interspaces convex, sparsely rather coarsely asperate-punctate; 

 the asperities uniseriate on the declivity, larger, confused and 

 lunar towards the base, strongly oblique and finally longitudinal 



