Goleopterological Notices^ VI. 463 



niidflle t\hii& moderately dilated, the anterior tibise and tarsi un- 

 modified. The female has the head about one-half as wide as the 

 IDrothorax, the latter three-fourths wider than long and still quite 

 as wide as the elytra, with the sides rounded and convergent near 

 the apex, and the elytra somewhat more than one-half longer than 

 wide. The individuals vary greatly in size independently of sex. 

 Six specimens. 



The epipleurse are flat, horizontal, polished and glabrous, curv- 

 ing inward posteriorly and ending at the narrow apical trunca- 

 ture. 



3. Ell. iirsiiiiis u. sp. — Oblong, stout, strongly convex, polished, intense 

 black throughout, without metallic lustre; legs and antennas black ; vestitm-e 

 rather long, sparse, blackish, intermixed with numerous long erect blat-k 

 sets, especially abundant on the elytra; marginal cilia black, long but some- 

 what timbriform. Head but slightly more than one-half as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, smooth, finely and sparsely punctate, the impressions moderate in size 

 and distinctness; epistoma rather short, dark; labrum strongly rounded, grad- 

 ually slightly pale toward tip; eyes large but not very prominent; antennae 

 stout, one-third longer than the prothorax, distinctly incrassate toward tip, the 

 penultimate joints ti-ansverse, fifth scarcely dilated. Prothorax very nearly 

 twice as wide as long, the sides parallel and very feebly arcuate, slightly con- 

 vergent and more arcuate near the deflexed apical angles, which are but slightly 

 prominent anteriorly and somewhat broadly rounded, basal angles slightly ob- 

 tuse and distinct, not rounded; apex subequal to the base, truncate; base 

 broadly arcuate; disk strongly convex, finely, remotely punctate. Elytra 

 scarcely more than one-half longer than wide, equal in width to the prothorax, 

 parallel and straight at the sides, evenly and not broadly rounded at apex, the 

 sutural angles not very blunt; disk narrowly reflexed along the side margins, 

 rather coarsely and sparsely punctate, the interspaces polished. Abdomen 

 moderately densely clothed with short plumbeo-cinereous pubescence. Length 

 3.0-3.2 mm.; ^vidth 1.4 mm. 



Southern California. 



This species may be recognized by its black color and long 

 hispid black sette. The description is drawn from the male, in 

 which sex the fifth ventral is but little longer than the fourth, 

 slightly trapezoidal and truncate at apex. The female differs 

 only slightly, the elytra being fully three-fifths longer than wide 

 and somewhat wider than the prothorax, the sides of the latter 

 more ai'cuate; the head is fully as large or even somewhat larger, 

 when compared with the prothorax, in the female than in the 

 male. Two specimens. 



The epipleurje are flat and horizontal, and, at the apex, have 

 their plane turned somewhat inward and upward. 



