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very feeble traces of costse, very minutely, feebly and densely punctate. 

 Pygidium one-third wider than long, feebly convex, punctured, and very 

 densely pubescent like the elytra. Legs moderate ; tarsi as long as the tibiae ; 

 claws nearly as in pulverea. Length 20.0 mm. 



California (Los Angeles Co.). 



This species is closely allied to the last, but differs in its shorter, 

 more robust and flattened form, its shorter, more transverse pro- 

 thorax with more angulate sides, which are more rapidly convergent 

 toward base when viewed vertically, and in the structure of the 

 antennae and palpi. The pubescence of the elytra is more densely 

 placed, and the pygidium more nearly vertical. 



T. Harfordi n. sp. — Oval, convex, piceous-black throughout ; vestiture 

 yellowish-cinereous ; silky hairs of under surface very long and dense ; abdomen 

 moderately densely covered with small robust recumbent hairs, each segment 

 with a paler spot of denser pubescence at the side near the apex ; maxillse, 

 hypomera, mesosternal parapleurse, and metasternal ei)iniera whiter and with 

 short stout recumbent pubescence ; vestiture of the elytra dense, the hairs 

 robust, recumbent and rather long, sparser on the pronotum, the fine erect 

 hairs of the latter long, dense and conspicuous. Head small, but very 

 slightly wider than long ; clypeus concave, broadly, feebly sinuate, the angles 

 narrowly rounded and the sides parallel and feebly arcuate ; antennal club 

 robust, oval, much shorter than the stem and scarcely more than two-thirds 

 as long as the fourth palpal joint ; the latter greatly developed, more than one- 

 half longer than the preceding joints together, elongate, and but moderately 

 robust when viewed laterally, with the lower edge straight, the upper broadly 

 arcuate, the apex scalpellate, the lower point of the apex not deflexed, and 

 with an exceedingly minute circular truncation, having externally, an entire 

 groove which is wide, elongate, elliptical, and extending fully one-half through 

 the joint. Protltorax two-thirds wider than long ; sides rather strongly angu- 

 late, the angle rounded ; sides near it straight ; basal angles obtuse and 

 moderately rounded ; apex very feebly emarginate, scarcely one-half as wide 

 as the base, the latter broadly and rather strongly angulate, the angle broadly 

 rounded ; disk convex, very narrowly and feebly impressed along the median 

 line, rather finely, feebly and densely punctate. Scutellum with a very fine 

 subdenuded median line. Elytra two-fifths longer than wide and nearly two- 

 fifths wider than the prothorax, with very feeble traces of broad costae, together 

 broadly, angularly emarginate at apex when viewed longitudinally ; sides 

 parallel and feebly arcuate ; disk minutely, feebly and densely punctate. Legs 

 moderate ; tarsi about as long as the tibiae. Length 19.0-20.0 mm. 



California (Alameda Co.). 



"The claws are nearly as in the preceding species, but the teeth 

 are slightly more slender and acute. The pygidium is but one- 

 fourth wider than long. This species is very distinct in its strongly 



