442 Goleopterologieal Notices, VI. 



6. C. velocipes n. sp. — Moderately stout, strongly convex, feebly shin- 

 ing, blackish, the l>asal margins of the pronotum and elytra unevenly and 

 feebly suffused with a jjaler reddish tint; abdomen paler, red-brown through- 

 out ; legs and antenntie ruf o-testaoeous, the latter paler and more yellowish 

 toward base and at the eleventh joint; jjubescence very fine, dense and plum- 

 beo-einereous throughout, the punctures minute and scarcely visible. Head 

 small, distinctly less than one-half as wide as the jirothorax, the epistoma 

 paler and with more distinct punctulatiou and reticulation; antenna; rather 

 long, evenly and gradually incrassate through the last six or seven joints; the 

 ninth scarcely as long as wide, the tenth perceptibly wider than hiug, eleventh 

 rather short, somewhat rapidly, obli({uely and acutely pointed at apex. 

 Prothora.v nearly three-fifths wider than long, the apex but slightly more than 

 one-half as wide as the base, the sides evenly and strongly arcuate becoming 

 parallel toward base, the basal angles gradually and only moderately promi- 

 nent posteriorly and distinctly rounded. Elytra nearly one-fourth wider than 

 long, not at all longer than the prothorax, the sides distinctly convergent but 

 only very slightly arcuate from Ijase to apex ; disk convex, moderately finely 

 imbricate. Abdomen very evenly and gradually tapering from base to apex, 

 the erect black seta; long and distinct at the sides throughout, but, as usual, 

 less numerous toward base. Length "2.0 mm. ; Avidth 1.4 mm. 



New York (near the cit}); New Jerse}^; Yirgiuia (Fredericks- 

 burg). 



This distinct species may be readily- known b^- the ventral 

 sexual characters of the male, the long black and bristling set)^ 

 being xevy numerous throughout, except broadly along the 

 median line where the ordinary short pale pubescence becomes 

 longer, more erect and conspicuous. The sixth ventral has a 

 triangular nick in median third at apex, the notch nearly three 

 times as wide as deep and with the angle not rounded, the apex 

 of the fifth segment arcuatel}' sinuate in the middle. The epi- 

 pleurpe are wide and become gradually nearly- glabrous toward 

 base. This species maj- be distinguished from imhrieata hy its 

 shorter el^'tra and long black bristles toward the base of the 

 abdomen. 



7. C. castaiiea Horn — Trans. Am. Ent. Roc, VI., p. Ill; acutamjiduw 

 FvL, i. litt. 



Rather stout, strongly convex, pale brownish-testaceous in 

 color throughout, minutely and densely' pubescent, the punctures 

 scarcely visible. Length 1.7-1.9 mm.; width 1.1-1.3 mm. 



Coast regions of California from Humboldt to Los Angeles ; I 

 obtained three specimens also at Lake Tahoe, which represent a 

 sliiihtly smaller and narrower variety. The male has a rounded 



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