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last more distinctly so. Tarsi slender, basal joint slightly shorter than the 

 two following united, 2-4 subcqual, 5 a little longer. 



Length 3.25 to 4.5 mm.; width 1.35 to 1.9 mm. 



Described from a series of six specimens sent me by Mr. Norman Criddle, 

 who took them at Aweme, Manitoba, 7-VI-1919, in rotten spruce. The type 

 is a male in my own collection; paratypes in Mr. Griddle's collection, these 

 probably to be deposited in the national collection at Ottawa. . ,, . 



Because of the partially connate ventral segments, the present species 

 cannot with strict propriety be referred to Hadrobregmus, in which the ventral 

 segments are perfectly free. Furthermore, the prothorax lacks the postmedian 

 dorsal compression or gibbosity common in varying degree to all species of. 

 Hadrobregmus, and presents somewhat the aspect of a Coelostethus, so that 

 strictly speaking, it would occupy a place between these two genera, under a 

 new generic title; but since in all other essentials it is in close accord with Had- 

 robregmus, I prefer for the present to leave it there, placing it at the end of the 

 genus. 



A NEW CALIFORNIA METHIA. 



RY J. O. MARTIN, 

 Berkeley, California. 



The genus Methia is so sparsely represented in the collections of California 

 coleopterists and in fact in most collections elsewhere, that I am going to sub- 

 mit the following description of an unique example which appears to differ from 

 any of the yet described species. The specimen on which the following de- 

 scription is based was taken by myself on the desert side of the San Bernardino 

 mountains near Hesperia at the junction of Deep Creek with the Mojave River.' 

 It came to my camp light just after a thunder storm. 



Methia falli, sp. nov. 



Body varying in colour from rufo-castaneous on the head to piceous on the 

 abdominal segments; moderately to sparsely covered with pale yellowish 

 pubescence. Head rufo-castaneous, markedly darker than the disc of the 

 prothorax; front granulose punctate; occiput shining and coarsely variolately 

 punctate, punctures extending more sparsely along the caudal margin of neck, 

 which is shining, and behind the lower lobe of the eye strigose. Eyes large, 

 separated above by about the width of the third antennal joint, deeply emargin- 

 ate, the upper and lower lobes connected by but two rows of facets. 



Antennae one-half longer than body, rufo-testaceous, gradually slightly 

 darker toward tip; pubescence erect on basal joints becoming decumbent to- 

 ward the tip; joints three to eleven gradually decreasing in length. Prothorax 

 rufo-castaneous, granulate, moderately constricted at base and apex, side.s 

 broadly and evenly rounded. P21ytra three-fourths the length of. abdomen;, 

 lighter in colour than the prothorax, vaguely clouded with black on basal third, 

 more strongly so at the evenly rounded tips; surface granular, dull; bicarinate, 

 the carinae not meeting and extending but two-thirds of length. 



Legs of same colour as elytra. Abdomen nigro-piceous, evenly, sparsely, 

 coarsely punctured. Length 7 mm. 



September, 1920 



