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nearly straight and parallel, the punctulation extremely minute, sparse 

 and not asperulate; male not at hand. Length 2.5 mm.; width 0.68 

 mm. California (Los Angeles Co. — Pasadena), — A. Fenyes. [^ Gny- 

 peta luc. Bern.] lacens Bernh. 



Punctures of the head and remainder of the body sparse and extremely 

 minute as usual 5 



5 — Color piceous-black, the abdomen feebly rufescent toward base, the 

 legs and antennae testaceous, the latter inf uscate distally. Head but 

 little wider than long, the sides subparallel for a short distance 

 behind the eyes, then strongly and obliquely rounded to the neck, the 

 impression of the vertex very small; antennae shorter than usual, 

 extending scarcely to the middle of the elytra, rather incrassate dis- 

 tally, the joints seven to ten shorter than wide; prothorax barely per- 

 ceptibly wider than the head, the outline and punctulation as in lucens, 

 the surface not at all impressed along the middle, the subbasal im- 

 pression small, with two unusually approximate foveae; elytra two- 

 thirds wider and a third longer than the prothorax, the humeri widely 

 exposed as usual, the suture strongly impressed behind the scutellum; 

 abdomen parallel, the sides straight, converging at tip as usual, very 

 minutely, sparsely punctulate toward base, less minutely, more closely 

 and asperulately toward tip; female not known. Length 2.75 mm.; 

 width 0.7 mm. California (Riverside Co.) elsinorica n. sp. 



Color more or less pale piceo testaceous, the head and apical parts of the 

 abdomen darker testaceous to blackish; legs pale testaceous, the an- 

 tennae sometimes infuscate distally 6 



6 — Form very stout. Head and about apical half of the abdomen black- 



ish, the remainder dark piceo-testaceous; antennae pale, gradually in- 

 fuscate distally, extending to about basal third of the elytra, moder- 

 ately incrassate distally, the ninth and tenth joints slightly shorter 

 than wide; punctures throughout very minute and sparse, closer pos- 

 terior to the three basal segments of the abdomen but not evidently 

 asperulate; head moderate, the sides converging and almost evenly 

 arcuate from the eyes to the neck; prothorax about a fifth wider than 

 long, very slightly wider than the head, the sides subprominently 

 rounded anteriorly, thence only feebly converging but rather deeply 

 sinuate to the base, the median line not impressed, the subbasal im- 

 pression moderately large, broadly impressed, not definitely bifoveate; 

 elytra short and strongly transverse, about three-fifths wider and a 

 third longer than the prothorax, with the humeri very widely exposed; 

 abdomen nearly as wide as the elytra, the sides parallel; hind tarsi 

 two-thirds as long as the tibiae; female unknown. Length 2.7 mm.; 



width 0.8 mm. California (Los Angeles Co.) transversa n. sp. 



Form less stout, the abdomen always much narrower than the elytra 7 



7 — Head and elytra dark, the prothorax and basal half of the abdomen 



pale, piceo-testaceous, the remainder of the latter blackish; antennae 

 pale, only slightly infumate distally; punctures throughout very 

 minute and sparse, not asperate and moderately close toward tip of the 

 abdomen; vestiture pale but inconspicuous; head rather large, wider 

 than long, somewhat wider than the prothorax in the male, as wide as 

 the latter in the female, the impression of the vertex very feeble; eyes 



