Coleopte7'ological Notices, VI. 503 



cate; disk minutely and remotely punctate, the interspaces smooth and pol- 

 ished throughout, not at all rugose at the sides, the surface broadly reflexed 

 toward the basal angles. Elytra one-half longer than wide, only slightly wider 

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

 tusely rounded at apex; punctures fine and rather close-set, the interspaces 

 relatively wide and polished. Abdomen densely punctulate and densely and 

 somewhat coarsely cinereo-pubescent, the legs moderate in length and rather 

 slender. Length 3.H mm. ; width 1.45 mm. 



California (southern). 



The type is a female, having the fifth ventral broadly subangu- 

 late at tip, the edge however almost concealed b}- the dense and 

 porrect cinereous pubescence, 



43. T. ciispidatllfii n. sp. — Oblong, strongly convex, moderately shining, 

 black, the legs red throughout; antennae dusky, the third, fourth and fifth 

 joints more or less testaceous; pubescence cinereous, short and very dense 

 throughout, intermingled on the elytra with erect cinereous setae which are 

 moderate in length, uneven and rather close-set; marginal cilia short, dense on 

 the prothorax, much longer on the elytra, fimbriform and ashy. Heml three- 

 fourths as wide as the prothorax, finely, sparsely punctate, the impressions 

 large and distinct; epistoma narrow and unusually long; labrum cordiform, 

 but slightly wider than long, narrowly parabolic at apex; eyes large, extend- 

 ing to the base but only moderately prominent; antennie stout, bristling with 

 short dense and erect seta;, about as long as the prothorax, the outer seven 

 joints wider and distinctly asymmetric, penultimate joints transverse. Pro- 

 thorax long, about one-third wider than long, the sides just visibly convergent- 

 e^•enly and feebly ])ut distinctly arcuate from base to apex, the latter truncate- 

 only slightly narrower than the base, the apical angles anteriorly and feebly 

 prominent and small, the basal broadly rounded and obsolete; disk minutely, 

 not densely punctate, the interspaces polished, not rugose laterally. Elytra 

 two-fifths longer than wide, only slightly wider than the prothorax, parallel 

 and straight at the sides, very ))roadly and ol)tusely rounded at apex, the punc- 

 tures fine and close-set. Legs and abdomen cinereo-pubescent. Length 3.3 

 mm. ; width 1.4 mm. 



California (southern). 



This species is founded upon a single male, apparently from the 

 same source as the preceding female, but the ditferences are so 

 radical in the structure of the epistoma and basal angles of the 

 prothorax that it seems impossible to consider the two forms as 

 a single species. In this male the fifth ventral is very short, and 

 is broadly sinuato-truncate at apex. 



44. T. iiidutu!>i n. sp. — Elongate-oval, strongly convex, black, the legs 

 red with the tarsi somewhat dusky; antenme black, joints two to four more 



