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most nearly allied by the characters used in Horn's table.* Form 

 a little less robust than in striolatum; colour reddish brown, the 

 elytra more rufous, with a small, diffuse, darker scutellar spot and 

 the apical third, piceous; antenna^ and legs rufotestaceous; surface 

 distinctly reticulato-alutaceous, feebly shining. Head and pro- 

 thorax coarsely not closely punctate. Head a little narrower than 

 the prothorax, the latter quadrate with obtuse angles; sides straight, 

 just perceptibly convergent posteriorly, margin feebly crenulato- 

 denticulate, disk flattened medially. Elytra a little wider than 

 the prothorax, finely striate, the striae distinctly, rather closely 

 punctate. Pygidium and last ventral segment very coarsely, 

 closely punctate; segments 2-4 each with a single transverse series 

 of coarse, elongate, closely placed punctures; coxal lines of first 

 ventral distinct, nearly or quite attaining the posterior margin of 

 the segment. In the male the last ventral segment is shorter than 

 the three preceding united, the tip truncate. In the female the 

 last segment is fully as long as the preceding, oval at tip. Length 

 2-2.3 mm.; width .55-. 65 mm. 



Southern California, Ojai Valley, March, under bark of dead 

 sycamore. A good series of this species taken by the writer has 

 stood in his collection for more than twenty years without a name. 

 As compared with striolalum it is a little less robust with differently 

 coloured elytra, more distinctly alutaceous integuments, less 

 irregularly punctured prothorax, and elytral striae almost complete- 

 ly attaining the apex. In the single example of striolatum before 

 me the elytral striae are more abbreviated, with numerous irregu- 

 larly placed punctures at apex. As compared with striatum, the 

 only other species of this genus that enters California, the present 

 species is a little larger and stouter, with better defined elytral 

 striae and much more coarsely punctured under surface. 



Sphindocis, new genus. 



Closely allied to Orthocis in its elongate parallel, slightly de- 

 pressed form, subglabrous surface, posteriorly margined elytral 

 suture, and simple gpex of the anterior tibiae. The maxillary 

 palpi are stout, the last joint widely truncate, instead of pointed as 

 in Orthocis, antennae 11-jointed, the basal joint stout, oval, 2nd 

 similar but smaller; 3rd as long as the 2nd but more slender, 

 about twice as long as wide; 4th to 8th gradually shorter, the 8th 



*Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. XII, 1879, p. 265. 



