Coleopterological Notices, VI. 511 



54. T. ciirticollis n. sp. — Oblong, robust, convex, black ^vitli a slight 

 piceo-violaceous tinge, the integuments polished; legs bright rufo-ferruginous 

 throughout; antennse piceo-testaceous, blackish beyond the middle and at base; 

 pubescence rather long, coarse, decumbent, moderately dense and pale luteo- 

 cinereous, becoming blackish in a central region of the pronotum and in two 

 large discal spots on each elytron, one near the base and the other, but 

 slightly larger, behind the middle; erect black seta- long but rather sparse. 

 Head slightly more than one-half as wide as the pi'othorax, smooth, finely but 

 strongly, sparsely punctate, more closely so along the middle, the impressions 

 feeble; ejiistoma moderate in length and strongly transverse; labrum rather 

 short but large, broadly rounded at apex; eyes large, somewhat prominent; 

 antenn;^^ very much longer than the prothorax, slightly incrassate toward apex, 

 the penultimate joints sul)triangular, somewhat asymmetric and but slightly 

 wider than long, fifth not dilated. Prothora.c fully three-fourths wider than 

 long, the sides very feebly convergent, evenly and feebly arcuate from base to 

 apex, the apex transversely truncate throughout, slightly narrower than the 

 base which is feebly arcuate; apical angles obtuse and distinctly though nar- 

 rowly rounded, not in the least prominent anteriorly, the basal obtuse but dis- 

 tinct and feebly refiexed; disk finely, sparsely punctate, not at all rugose to- 

 ward the sides. Elyiia scarcely two-fifths longer than wide, distinctly wider 

 than the prothorax, parallel and straight at the sides, broadly and evenly 

 rounded at apex, finely and moderately closely punctate. Abdomen rather 

 thinly cinereo-pubescent. Length 3.5 mm.; width 1.5 mm. 



California, 



The type of this species is also a female. It resembles in- 

 signis at first sight, because of the four quasi-denuded spots of 

 the elj'tra, but may readil}' be distinguished b}^ the pale legs, 

 short prothoi'ax with more obtuse apical angles, shorter and 

 broader epistoma and labrum, longer antennae and other char- 

 acters. A single specimen from an unrecorded part of the State, 



Another female, evidently immature, represents a species 

 closely allied to this but without the dark elytral spots, with a 

 less transverse prothorax and with much more numerous erect 

 black setae. 



55. T. Sllturalis Lee— Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., VI, p. 169 

 (Dasytes); 1. c, 1866, p. 354 (Pristoscelis) ; conformis Lee: 1. c, VI, j). 169 

 and 1866, p. 354. 



Oblong-oval, rather stout, strongly convex, black and very 

 highl}' polished throughout; legs and antenna deep black; vesti- 

 ture consisting of long erect and bristling black setie which are 

 rather close-set throughout and intermingled toward the sides and 

 basal angles of the pronotum and flanks of the el3'tra with some 



