fi^ COLEOPTERA RHYNCHOPHORA. 



haps is why it was called a 9 by Dietz. I feel 

 it that both of Dietz's specimens are cf's, and 

 resent distinct species. The exact relation of 

 .,.^...<,<^o Lu tiuvipes cannot be stated until both sexes of each 

 form are known ; for the present modicus may be separated 

 by its somewhat denser vestiture, especially on the fourth 

 and sixth elytral intervals, the lack of any trace of a lateral 

 subdenuded area, and the pale legs. It is not unlikely that 

 Dietz's New Mexico cf is identical with my Epimechus nanu- 

 lus described from the 9 and also from New Mexico. The 

 very small size of na7iuhcs make this a little doubtful, how- 

 ever, and here again we must wait till both sexes are taken 

 together. 



E. inobilis n. sp. — Form rather short oblong oval, piceous, legs 

 reddish, body densely clothed above with broadly oval or rounded 

 largely overlapping scales, ashy-gray varied more or less with pale 

 brown to fuscous. The darker scales form two more or less obvious 

 pronotal vittae alternating with pale. The elytra may be almost en- 

 tirely cinereous, the darker scales few, or so pale as to be inconspicu- 

 ous, or the latter may predominate, leaving the suture, a median vittae 

 on the fourth interspace and the basal part of the sixth interspace pale. 

 The antennal funicle is 6-jointed, the second joint a little longer than 

 the third but scarcely as long as the two following, barely twice as 

 long as wide in the cf, but fully so in the 9 . Antennae inserted near 

 the middle of the beak in the c?, slightly behind the middle in the 9 , 

 the beak rather strongly curved, subcarinate in basal half. Prothorax 

 one-fourth wider than long, sides moderately arcuate and convergent, 

 apical constriction rather feeble, sculpture concealed by the vestiture. 

 Elytra one-third longer than wide, sides parallel and nearly straight 

 in basal three-fifths. Body beneath squamose, the scales of the ven- 

 tral segments narrower and less dense. Fifth ventral segment a little 

 longer than the fourth in the c? , scarcely so in the 9 . Legs rather 

 stout, femora apparently completely unarmed : hind tarsi straight in 

 both sexes. Length 2-2.25 mm. 



Southern California — Pomona (type d^ ) , Claremont, Azusa, 

 San Diego. 



This species was first taken by me some twenty years ago 

 and was at that time identified for me by Ulke or Horn as 

 nevadicus, under which name I sent it out to numerous cor- 

 respondents. A comparison which I have just made with 

 the type of nevadicus shows it to be quite distinct, however, 



