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angles; base broadly arcuate, oblique and straight toward the Ijasal angles, 

 Avhich are obtuse but not at all rounded, and with a thick confusedly punctate 

 bead; disk finely, sparsely punctate, smooth and polished, only very feebly 

 rugulose near the sides. Elytra scarcely more than one-third longer than \\\Ae, 

 a little wider than the jjrothorax and somewhat more than twice as long, par- 

 allel, the sides feebly arcuate, becoming straight near the base; disk obliquely 

 narrowed at apex, each elytron rounded ; lateral margins reflexed ; punctures 

 fine and rather sparse. Abdomen more densely cinereo-pirbescent. Length 

 3.8 mm. ; width 1.9 mm. 



California. 



The description refers to a single female type from an unre- 

 corded part of the State. The epipleura? are rather wide, sub- 

 horizontal, polished and impunctate, becoming inwardl}* arcuate 

 at tip and vanishing onl}- at the beginning of the rounded apical 

 angles. It is probable that the male will be found to difter con- 

 siderably in general form. 



2. Eu. obloiigus n. sp. — Oblong, stout, strongly convex, polished, black, 

 without metallic lustre, the elytra somewhat piceous; legs pale rufo-ferrugin- 

 ous througliout, the coxse dark; antennae rufo-testaceous, blackish toward apex 

 and also at the inner extremities of the intermediate joints ; pubescence cin- 

 ereous, subdecumbent, long and very sparse anteriorly, rather dense and inter- 

 mingled witli sparse erect pale set;v throughout on the elytra, the head with 

 a few bristling setae; marginal cilia long and rather confused. Head scarcel3- 

 more than three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, smooth, finely, sparsely punc- 

 tate, the impressions long and pronounced, extending almost to the occiput; 

 ejjistoma somewhat short; labrum moderate, rounded; eyes rather large, mod- 

 erately convex; antennae stout, sen-ate, incrassate, moderate in length, the 

 penultimate joints strongly transverse. Prothorax three-fifths wider than long, 

 the sides very slightly convergent and extremely feebly arcuate from base to 

 apex, the basal angles nearly right, not rounded and distinctly prominent 

 laterally; apical angles prominent anteriorly, acute and not in the least blunt; 

 apex slightly narrower than the base, broadly, arcuately emarginate; base very 

 feebly arcuate toward the middle; disk nunutely and remotely punctate, not 

 in the least rugose near the sides. Elytra two-fifths longer than wide, not 

 wider than the prothorax, parallel and straight at the sides, broadly rounded 

 at apex, each elytron narrowly truncate, with the sutural angle blunt; disk 

 narrowly reflexed at the lateral margins, rather finely but strongly and some- 

 what closely punctured. Abdomen a little more densely ciuereo-puljesceut. 

 Length 2.9-4.8 mm.; width 1.4-2.2 mm. 



Utah (southwestern). Mr. C. J. Weidt. 



The male described has the fifth ventral truncate at apex, the 

 genital segment flat, finely canaliculate along the middle and 

 sinuato-truncate at apex and the inner spur of the anterior and 



