Coleopterological Notices, VI. 721 



I took a single pair at the locality indicated ten years ago, and 

 place with these examples a specimen subsequently received from 

 Los Angeles Co., which agrees apparently in every particular, 

 but which is in rather bad condition. The male characters 

 a.re very simple, the fifth ventral being unmodified, the genital 

 segment trapezoidal, feebly convex and polished, with the apex 

 feebh^ arcuato-truncate and fringed with rather long, stiff and 

 porrect cilia. 



Obliquiis differs from both nanus and peninsularis in its larger 

 size, finer, denser punctures of the pronotum, and, especially, in 

 its much longer, wider and less convex elytra, with the humeri 

 more broadly and transversely exposed at base. 



45. A. iniioceiis n. sp. — Narrow, moderately convex, shining, pale flavo- 

 ferrnginous throughout, except the abdomen, which is blackish; pubescence 

 rather coarse and close, but short, longer but very sparse, somewhat fine and 

 inconspicuous on the head. Head subquadrate, a little wider than long, 

 broadly, feebly arcuato-truncate at base, the angles distinctly rounded; eyes 

 rather large and convex, decidedly longer and more prominent than the tem- 

 pora, which are straight and parallel behind them for a short distance ; punc- 

 tures coarse, sparse and rugose, the surface polished throughout; antennse 

 nearly as long as the head and prothorax, feebly and gradually thickened, the 

 tenth joint but slightly wider than long. Prothorax rather small, distinctly 

 narrower than the head, not quite as long as wide, trapezoidal, narrowly 

 rounded near the apex, the sides thence oblique and straight to the base; 

 apex broadly arcuate; disk somewhat finely biit strongly, closely punctate. 

 Elytra two-thirds longer than ^vide, twice as Avide as the prothorax, not very 

 broadly rounded behind, the sides parallel, broadly, feebly, almost evenlj' 

 arcuate; humeri rather Avidely and transversely exposed at base, rounded ex- 

 ternally; scutellar impression and omoplates obsolete; punctures fine but 

 strong and somewhat close-set; disk Avith a narrow and deep impression along- 

 each side of the suture posteriorly, not attaining the apex. Abdomen minutely, 

 not densely punctate, the legs moderate in length, very slender. Length 1.85 

 mm. ; width 0.65 mm. 



Arizona (Peach Springs). Mr. Wickham. 



A verj- small and delicate species, resembling 7ianus, but differ- 

 ing in its larger ej'es and relatively larger head. 



4G. A. iiiscitus n. sp. — Moderately narrow, convex, shining, black 

 throughout, the prothorax slightly rufescent; legs and antennttj dark rufo- 

 testaceous ; pubescence cinereous, moderately long and dense, subdecumbent and 

 distinct. Head subquadrate, slightly wider than long, rather convex, trans- 

 versely truncate and feebly, medially impressed at base; eyes somewhat large 

 and convex, slightly longer than the tempora, the latter perceptibly swollen 

 posteriorly and quite as prominent as the eyes; disk polished, coarsely, rather 



