Coleopterological Notices, VI. 493 



obsolete: epistoma with a very narrow pale apical margin; labruni small, 

 rounded; eyes very large, attaining the base but not prominent ; antenna; short, 

 about as long as the prothorax, the three outer joints somewhat abruptly wider, 

 the tenth strongly transverse, fifth but slighth- dilated. Prothorax transversely 

 oval, about twice as wide as long, the sides subparallel and strongly, evenly 

 arcuate, only just visibly more convergent toward apex than liase; angles very 

 obtusely rounded; disk minutely, sparsely punctate, more coarsely, densely and 

 rugosely so at the sides: interspaces smooth. Elytra short, oblong, not quite 

 one-half longer than wide, slightly biit distinctly wider than the prothorax, 

 parallel and straight at the sides, almost semi-circularly rounded at apex, 

 rather finely but strongly and quite densely punctate. Legs short. Length 

 2.2 mm. ; width 0.95-1.0 mm. 



Southern California. 



The description is drawn from the female, the male having the 

 head two-thirds as wide as the prothorax and the latter about one- 

 half wider than long but perceptibly narrower than the elytra ; 

 otherwise the two sexes are nearly alike. The fifth ventral of the 

 male is transversely truncate, and of the female rather strongh' 

 rounded at apex, and, in the former, the under surface of the tip 

 of the dorsal pj'gidium, projecting behind, is flat, short, trans- 

 versely arcuate and sparingh' pubescent. A single pair. 



29. T. egeiillS n. sp. — Oblong, rather convex, moderately shining, pale 

 rufo-testaceous, the head toward base, metasterniim and apices of the ventral 

 segments blackish; elytra black, pale at apex, along the sides and on the 

 suture nearly to the base: legs pale testaceous; antenna? piceous; pubescence 

 rather short, fine and sparse, luteo-cinereous and moderately distinct. Head 

 scarcely more than two-thirds as wide as the prothorax, strongly and longi- 

 tudinally convex, rather coarsely but not densely punctate, the anterior im- 

 pressions small and somewhat distinct; labrum small and rounded; eyes de- 

 cidedly small, at a slight distance from the prothorax and scarcely at all 

 prominent; antenna? slender, longer than the prothorax, the fifth joint not 

 wider than the sixth, tenth slightly wider than long. Prothorax nearly three- 

 fourths wider than long, the sides parallel and feebly but perfectly evenly ar- 

 cuate from base to apex, the four angles nearly right and scarcely at all 

 rounded from above: apex and base almost eijtially arcuato-truncate ; disk 

 coasely, rather closely and subrugosely punctate, the side-margins but feebly 

 defined. Eli/ira three-fifths longer than wide, nearly one-third wider than the 

 prothorax, the sides parallel and straight; apex very obtusely and broadly 

 rounded: disk finely and somewhat sparsely punctate, the interspaces finely 

 and ol)soletely reticulate. AJnlomcn finely, feebly and subrugosely punctulate, 

 very finely and thinly ptibescent, the legs moderately long and very slender. 

 Length 2.2 mm. : width 0.8 mm. 



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



