Coleopterological Notices, VI. 499 



at apex; hnnieri rather narrowly exposed at base; punctures not very tine and 

 strong, somewhat sparse. Legs slender. Length 1.8-2.0 mm. ; width 0.65- 

 0.8 mm. 



Southern California. Mr. Wickham. 



The male above described has the fifth A'entral transversely' 

 truncate at apex, the disk impunctate and polished toward apex 

 and with a few slender black hairs in the middle toward base, the 

 third with a small subapical and the fourth with a large median 

 patch of stout black spinules radiating from the median line. 

 The female has the bod}' more slender than the male, with finer 

 pubescence, less transverse prothorax and still smaller head, the 

 the fifth A'entral broadly and feeblj" arcuate at apex, and the ab- 

 domen evenl}' cinereo-pubescent throughout. Three specimens. 



37. T. fallax n. sp. — Elongate, subparallel, moderately convex, polished, 

 black with a slight jeneo-piceous tinge; legs black, the tibiae except near the 

 base and the tarsi piceous-brown ; anteunsB piceous-black, the first and eleventh 

 joints black ; pubescence rather long, subdecumbent, equal and without erect 

 set*, consisting on the pronotum and elytra of brown and cinereous hairs con- 

 fusedly intermingled, moderately coarse and not very dense. Head nearly 

 four-fifths as wide as the prothorax, strongly but sparsely piinctate, feebly 

 rugulose toward base, the impressions strong and widely separated by the im- 

 punctate convexity, the sujjra-antennal ridges rather pronounced; epistoma 

 very short, not at all pale or coriaceous; labrum pale at apex, short and broad, 

 circularly rounded; mandibles pale in the middle; eyes large, only moderately 

 prominent, extending to the base; antennse distinctly longer than the pro- 

 thorax, gradually incrassate, the outer joints clothed densely and uniformly 

 with fine short erect cinereous pubescence and also with a few long setae, the 

 fifth joint much wider than the fourth, but subequal to the sixth, tenth trans- 

 verse and almost symmetrical. Pmthorax one-half wider than long, the sides 

 almost straight and parallel from the apex to basal two-fifths, then convergent 

 and straight to the basal angles which are very obtuse but not rounded; apex 

 rectilinearly truncate throughout, much wider then the base, the angles right 

 and onlj- slightly rounded; disk finely but strongly, sparsely perforato-punc- 

 tate, coarsely reto-rugose but shining toward the sides, the punctures larger 

 and with elevated edges toward apex ; interspaces even and polished ; marginal 

 fringe composed of long blackish hairs. Elytra two-thirds longer than wide, 

 slightly wider than the prothorax, parallel, obtusely i)arabolic at apex, broadly 

 sinuate at base, rather finely and somewhat sparsely punctate, the marginal 

 fringe composed of rather long even piceous and not very close-set hairs. Al- 

 (lomcn and legs rather densely cinereo-pubescent. Length 3.4 mm.; width 

 1.25 mm. 



California (Sonoma Co.) 



Anxals X. Y. Acad. Sci., VIII. , July, 1895 —35 



