524 Coleopterological Notices, VI. 



New Mexico (Stji. Fe Canon— 7.000 feet)— Cah. LeConte. The 

 above observations were taken from tlie unique t3-pe. This 

 species is remarkably rlisiinct in pronotal sculpture, but the im- 

 pressions alluded to may possibly be of an accidental nature, al- 

 though the.y appear to be s^-mmetrical. 



74. T. squalidilS Lee— Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., VI, p. 169 

 (Dasytes); 1. c, 1866, p. 354 ( Pristoscehs) ; icjonicus Lee: 1. c, p. 354 (Pris- 

 toscelis ) . 



Subcylindrical, rather narrow and convex, polished, intense 

 black, without metallic lustre ; legs and antennje more or less 

 blackish ; pubescence moderately long, cinereous, sparse especi- 

 ally on the pronotum but clothing the entire surface, intermixed 

 with moderately' numerous long erect and black setse. Head 

 two-thirds as wide as the prothorax, finelv, sparsel}' punctate, the 

 impressions small and feeble; epistoma rather narrow and mod- 

 erately long, slightl}' pale; labrum strongly rounded, piceous^ 

 paler at apex ; eyes moderate, rather prominent ; antennae nearly 

 one-third longer than the prothorax, feebly incrassate, the penul- 

 timate joints distinctly transverse, fifth but feebly dilated. Pro- 

 thorax three-fifths wider than long, the sides parallel and broadly, 

 somewhat strongly arcuate ; basal angles obtuse but distinct ; 

 apical obtuse ; apex and base broadly arcuate, the latter rather 

 the more strongly ; disk finely, sparsely punctate, not rugose 

 near the sides. El3'tra three-fifths longer than wide, scarcely 

 visibly wider than the prothorax, subparallel, evenly and not very 

 broadly rounded at apex ; disk finely but strongly, sparsely 

 punctate. Length 2.7 mm.; width 1.0 mm. 



California (San Diego and northward). The male has the fifth 

 ventral longer than the fourth and less broadly truncate at apex 

 than is usual in this section. I am completely unable to distin- 

 guish tejonicus from squalidus, the legs being somewhat variable 

 in color, and all the other features being perfectly similar as far 

 as can be discovered from a careful study of the tj'pes of each. 

 The above description is drawn from a male taken near San 

 Dieso. 



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75. T. sexualis n. sp. — Elongate, moderately convex, polished, deep 

 black, without metallic reflection; legs and antennse black; pubescence rather 

 short, coarse, subdecunibent, luteo-cinereous, sparsely and evenly distributed 

 on the elytra and intermingled throughout above with erect black seta' wbich 



