Coleopterological Notices, VI. , 581 



margin very small, feeble and remotely separated; epistoma with a wide thin 

 apical margin; labrum subtruucate; eyes very small, not extending to the 

 base, prominent; antennae rather short, not as long as the head and prothorax, 

 the three outer joints distinctly wider, the penultimate slightly wider than 

 long. Prothorax four-fifths wider than long, the sides strongly and evenly 

 rounded toward base, becoming strongly convergent and almost straight in 

 about apical half, the edge distinctly serrulate; basal angles very obtuse but 

 traceable; apex truncate, equal to the base, the latter only feebly arcuate ; disk 

 smooth, minutely and s^jarsely punctate, becoming gradually obsoletely reticu- 

 late near the sides. Elytra very feeljly dilated behind and there about one- 

 fourth Avider than the prothorax, at base equal in width to the disk of the 

 latter, not quite one-half longer than wide, the apex evenly and not broadly 

 rounded; disk somewhat coarsely and strongly but not densely, somewhat un- 

 evenly punctate. Under surface slightly pubescent, the hind femora some- 

 what piceous in color. Length 1.75-1.9 mm. ; width 0.75-0.9 mm. 



California (Los Angeles Co.). 



The fifth ventral of the individual described is trapezoidal and 

 rather broadly truncate at apex. This species difters greatl}' from 

 ruficollis in its minute sparse punctuation of the anterior parts, 

 form of the prothorax, pubescence and numerous other features. 

 The two specimens in m}' cabinet are mutuall}- similar through- 

 out. 



ESCHATOCREPIS Lee. 



In this genus the ungual appendages are equal, rather slender, 

 well developed and as long as the claws, but are clearl}- detached 

 from them except near the base ; in other respects Eschatocrepis 

 is allied to Listromimus, but differs in the form of the epipleurse, 

 which are narrow and horizontal, with the plane gradually turned 

 upward and inward posteriorly. The anterior tibire are cylin- 

 drical and devoid of all trace of spinules along the external side, 

 and the eyes are large and basal, the antenna? rather short and 

 either gradually incrassate or with an abrupt three-jointed club ; 

 they are scarcely at all serrate. The pronotum has a deep im- 

 pressed submarginal line in both sexes. 



1. E. coiistrictiis Lee. — Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., VI, p. 170 (Da- 

 sytes); Class. Col. N. A., 1861, p. 193 (Eschatocrepis); const ricoUis Motsch. : 

 Bull. Mosc, 1859, ii, p. 390 (Listrus). 



Elongate, feebly- shining, black, the legs pale rufo-ferruginous, 

 frequentl}' with the femora picescent ; antenna? piceous, testaceous 

 toward base; pubescence short, more or less cinereous, without 

 trace of erect hairs. Head but slightly narrower than the pro- 



