646 Coleopterological Notices, VI. 



slightly flattened in the middle at apex ; the genital segment is- 

 large, deepl}^ and angularly incised in the middle and acutely 

 bilobed. 



2. F. niiiiitla Lee. — Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., V, p. 152; Proe. Acad.,. 

 1852, p. 95 (Anthieus). 



Less stout and more parallel, convex, highly polished, with 

 some widely scattered punctures bearing long tactile setst, and 

 also having some ver}' sparse subdecunibent hairs, otherwise com- 

 pletely devoid of sculpture, pale flavo-testaceous, the head not 

 darker; el^^tra with the tips of the humeri, a broad band just be- 

 fore the middle narrowed toward, and narrowly interrupted at the 

 suture, and a subapical band also narrowly interrupted, blackish. 

 Head oval, a little longer than wide, broadly rounded at base ; 

 eA^es small but convex, just before the middle; antennae one-half 

 as long as the bodj', slender but rapidly and A-ery strongl}' in- 

 crassate through the last four joints, the eleventh conoidal and 

 very much shorter than the two preceding. Prothorax only 

 slightly narrower than the head, distinctly longer than wide, con- 

 vex, deeply but not very acutely constricted rather behind basal 

 third; basal margin distinct. Elytra nearly two-thirds longer 

 than wide, scarcely more than twice as wide as the prothorax, 

 rounded behind, not connate, the hind wings apparently rather 

 well developed ; sides feebly- inflated behind ; humeri distinct and 

 well exposed at base ; disk distincth^ impressed at basal fourth. 

 Legs rather long and slender, the femora moderately stout. 

 Length 1.9-2.0 mm.; width 0.6 mm. 



California (Yuma). In the male the fifth ventral is evenly 

 rounded behind, unmodified and very much shorter than the two 

 preceding together, the genital segment small, parabolic in out- 

 line, the apex with a small but rather deep and very acutely' at- 

 tenuate notch, each of the small lobes inflexed and almost meet- 

 ing at apex; the copulator}' spicule is long, extremely slender 

 and graduall}^ finel}' pointed, the under surface very feebly im- 

 pressed along the median line, more strongly toward base. This 

 species, although congeneric, is remarkably distinct from scitula. 



3. F. evaiiescens n. sp. — INIoderately stout, convex, highly polished, 

 bristling above with long remote tactile setse and also having a few shorter 

 distant and more decumbent hairs; integuments without sculpture, pale testa- 

 ceous, the elytral humeri and a median and apical band not interrupted at the 

 suture, black. Head subquadrate, scarcely longer than Avide, broadly arcuato- 



