502 Coleopterological Notices, VI. 



41. T. vif tiger 11. sp. — Oblong-oval, strongly convex, polished, black, the 

 legs red througliont; antennre testaceous, gradually dusky beyond the middle; 

 pubescence rather long, even in length, suberect, fine, sparse and cinereous, 

 broAvnish or blackish in a subsutural vitta on each elytron not attaining the 

 apex and sometimes almost obliterated; marginal cilia dense and fimbrifomi. 

 Head about t^vo-thirds as wide as the prothorax, finely, sparsely punctate, the 

 interspaces smooth and polished throughout; anterior impressions very fee])le, 

 the median impunctate convexity behind the epistoma conspicuous; epistoma 

 large, pale; labrum pale, rounded; eyes rather small and but slightly promi- 

 nent, not attaining the base: antennse stout, moderate in length, the tenth 

 joint strongly transverse, fifth dilated. Prothorax fully three-fifths -wider 

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

 the latter truncate and much narrower than the base, the latter broadly and dis- 

 tinctly arcuate; disk finely, sparsely punctate, the interspaces smooth through- 

 out, not at all rugose near the sides. Elytra two-fifths longer than wide, ])ut 

 slightly wider than the prothorax, parallel and straight at the sides, very ob- 

 tusely rounded at apex, sparsely and somewhat coarsely jninctate. Abdomen 

 closely and rather coarsely- cinereo-pubescent. Length 2.2.5-2.8 mm.; Avidth 

 0.9-1.2 mm. 



New Mexico. 



The male from which the description is drawn is mnch smaller 

 than the female, and has the fifth ventral evenly truncate at apex 

 but otherwise devoid of modification. In the female the head is 

 only slightly smaller when compared with the prothorax, but the 

 latter is decidedly smaller with regard to the elytra, and the dark 

 elytral stripes are much more evident in the single specimen rep- 

 resenting the latter sex. Two specimens. 



42. T. proiiiineiiK n. sp. — Oblong, parallel, rather stout, strongly con- 

 vex, black, without metallic lustre, polished; legs red throughout; antennse 

 blackish, joints three to five more or less rufous; pubescence cinereous, rather 

 long, decumbent and sparse anteriorly, dense, shorter, coarser and inter- 

 mingled with erect cinereous seta; uneven in distrilnition on the elytra; mar- 

 ginal cilia moderately long, pale and fimbrifomi. Head not much more than 

 one-half as wide as the prothorax, convex, very finely, sparsely punctate, the 

 interspaces smooth throughout; impressions large and very feeble; epistoma 

 short and broad, trapezoidal; labrum very small, strongly rounded; mandibles 

 somewhat well developed; eyes large but not prominent; antennic small 

 and slender, gradually and feebly incrassate, not as long as the prothorax, the 

 tenth joint moderately transverse, fifth not dilated. Prothorax three-fourths 

 wider than long, the sides distinctly convergent, evenly and extremely feebly 

 arcuate from base to apex, the latter much narrower than the base, rectilin- 

 early truncate but abruptly and anteriorly oblique at the sides, the apical 

 angles anteriorly prominent, acute and but slightly blunt; basal angles slightly 

 acute, very feeldy everted and but slightly blunt; base feebly arcuato-trun- 



