Coleopterological Notices. 4(il 



fonn of robust, arcuate, subrecumbent, scale-like hairs, rather dense, pale 

 yellowisli-cineroous ami very conspicuous. Head slightly wider than long, 

 subhexagonal, the sides before the eyes prominent and angulate ; epistonia 

 very broadly truncate, the truncation sinuate in the middle, the anterior 

 angles rather narrowly i-ounded ; surface very feebly convex, rather coarsely, 

 deeply punctate, the punctures polygonally crowded, the acute interspaces 

 granulosc ; upper lobe of the eyes small, slightly elongate-oval; antennsB 

 robust, rather distinctly shorter than the head and i)rothorax, gradually, 

 feebly incrassate, second joint very short, tlie third clavatc, longer than tlie 

 next two together and more than three times as long as the second, tenth 

 transverse, shorter than the ninth anil rather wider than the eleventh, the 

 latter ovoidal, as long as wide. Prothomx about two-thirds wider than tlie 

 head and two-thirds wider than long; sides feebly convergent from base to 

 apex and rather strongly arcuate, the disk being widest slightly behind the 

 middle; base broadly, feebly bisinnate ; apex truncate between the slightly 

 advanced acute angles ; disk transversely, evenly and strongly convex, 

 abruptly and very narrowly explanate along the lateral edges, punctini'd like 

 the head, the interspaces a little less gj-anulose. Scutellum granulosc and 

 dull, rather sjiarsely, coarsely punctate and squamulose. Eli)tni four-fifths 

 longer than wide, three times as long as, and, just behind the middle, about 

 one-fifth wider tlian the prothorax, each with nine deeply excavated abrupt 

 closely and deeply punctate grooves, the intervals fiat, but very slightly wider 

 than the grooves, grannlose, asperately punctate and ratlier densely clothed 

 with the very robust squamiform hairs, each strial puncture bearing a very 

 minute sleniler hair from its anterior wall. Abdomen shining, rather sparsely, 

 coarsely imnctate and finely, sparsely pubescent. Hind wings rather well 

 developed, a little shorter than the elytra. 



Male. — Anterior tarsi not perceptibly dilated ; abdomen broadly, just visibly 

 impressed in the middle toward base. 



Length f). 11-5. 8 nun. ; width Ll.0-2.o nun, 



California ; Texas. 



A conspioiiouis species, distin^ii'uisliable at oiu-c liy its deeply 

 pTooved elytra, i)ale robust and squaniiforMi })ul)eseence, narrow!}' 

 subrellexo-c.x[)lanate sides of the prothorax and polygonal head, 

 with prominent ang-ulate sides. Together with the next it consti- 

 tutes a group, comparatively isnlated not only by these characters, 

 but by the very short second niid greatly (lr\ cldpcd third Joint of 

 the antenna\ 



4:^ II. llJ'dl'OpicilS n. sp. — Very robust, oblung-oval, distinctly wider 

 behind, convex, brownisli-lilaek, dull, the pubescence in the form of very 

 short arcuate sendcrcct robust scale-like hairs, which are mod(rrately dense, 

 dark piceous-brown in color and not at all consjiicuous. llmd and antennne 

 nearly as in stdailiis, the former very slightly more transverse, dull, rather 

 coarsely, very deeply punctate, the punctures polygonally crowiU'd. JVotlntnuc 



