Coleopierological Notices, VI. 517 



Although to be placed near b7'evipiIosus in a natural scheme of 

 classification, this species is not closely allied ; it is smaller, with 

 the pale setre of the el3tra coarser and A'er3- much more abundant, 

 and the lobiform base of the protliorax is more pronounced. The 

 sinarle male has the fifth ventral much longer than the fourth and 

 only moderately broadly sinuato-truncate at apex. 



63. T. brevipilosiis Lee— Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 18G6, p. 353 

 ( Pristoscelis ) . 



Elongate, parallel, strongly convex, polished, black with a 

 gra^ish-ffineous lustre ; legs piceous-black. the tibiffi and tarsi 

 rufescent ; antennae piceous-black ; pubescence rather long and 

 moderately coarse, subdecumbent, pale fulvo-cinereous and some- 

 what dense, with numerous erect seta? which are long bristling 

 and in great part black anteriorly but short and mostly pale on 

 the elytra, where they are intermixed with a few very long black 

 hairs toward the sides ; marginal fringe of the elytra moderately' 

 long, fine and in great part ashy. Head fully two-thirds as Avide 

 as the prothorax, smooth, finely and sparsely punctate, the 

 epistoma extremely short ; labrum short and broadly rounded ; 

 antenna? scarceh* longer than the prothorax, not A'ery stout, the 

 penultimate joints but slightly asymmetric and moderately trans- 

 verse, fifth just A'isibly dilated. Prothorax two-thirds wider than 

 long, the sides parallel, almost evenly and moderately arcuate ; 

 angles somewhat distinct though blunt ; disk minuteh', sparsely 

 punctate, not rugose laterally. Elytra three-fifths longer than 

 wide, onl}' slighth' wider than the prothorax, parallel, rather 

 acutel}' rounded behind ; humeri only moderately prominent ; 

 punctures fine but strong and relatively not very close-set. Ab- 

 domen and legs densely clothed with short coarse fulvo-cinereous 

 pubescence. Length 3.3 mm.; width 1.3 mm. 



Middle California. The female here described is the only rep- 

 resentative which I have seen. This species is not liable to be 

 confounded with any other known to me. 



Another female, from a difl'erent locality in California, seems to 

 represent a ver}' closely allied species with a shorter and smaller 

 prothorax and a less abbreviated epistoma, the latter having a 

 much broader impunctate margin. 



64. T. liystrix ii. sp. — 01)loug. strouii'ly convex, highly polished, black 

 ■^•ith a feeble bluish-teneous lustre; legs piceous-lilack, the tarsi paler; an- 



