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WILLIAM G. DIETZ, M. I). 
Three males are liefore me; one well-preserved specimen in Mr. 
Schwarz’s collection and two aln'aded ones from Santa INIonica, L. 
Cal., in mine. The fifth ventral of the male is a little longer than 
the fourth. 
.4, iiieriiii!^ Boh. Plate vi, fig. 22. -Elongate-oval, ferruginous, densely 
clothed above and beneath with large, broadly oval, white, or grayish white 
scales. Beak moderately long and slender, curved and scarcely pubescent; three 
elevated lines from base to juiddle, with corresponding strife between ; scaly at 
the base. Antennae rather stout, second joint of funicle not longer than the 
third; club dusky. Eyes feebly convex, posterior margin slightly free. Head 
punctured and densely scaly, frontal fovea elongate. Prothorax longer than 
wide, narrow'ed in front; sides rounded, feebly constricted at the apex and trans- 
ver.sely impressed behind the anterior margin, closely and rather finely imnc- 
tured. Elytra elongate-oval, more tlian one-fourth wider at the base than the 
prothorax ; sides feebly rounded ; stripe imiwes.sed, punctures rather large, romided 
and closely approximate ; interspaces slightly convex. Legs and tarsi slender, 
femora feebly clavate, anterior with a small, scarcely perceptible tooth ; tibiae 
slender, posterior of male feebly curved, fifth ventral segment of male almost as 
long as the two ])receding segments united. Long. 2.2 — 2.5 mm. ; .09 — .10 inch. 
Hah. — California. 
I am not at all certain about the identity of this species, as Le- 
Conte describes the thighs as being unarmed. I have only four 
specimens before me, in all of which the tooth of the anterior pair 
is discernible, but it is quite possible that, on account ot its small 
size, it had been overlooked by that author. Two specimens in Dr. 
Horn’s collection have the upper surface somewhat mottled with 
brownish scales. 
A. jacobiiius n. sp. — Oblong-elliptic, ])iceous, antennae and legs ferrugin- 
OU.S, densely clothed above and beneath with moderately large, whitish scales. 
Beak not very slender, feebly but regularly curved, opaque ( % ), or somewhat 
shining (9), indistinctly carinate and .striate; scrobes straight. Antennae 
slender, inserted two-lifths ( '^ ) or one-half { 9 ) from the apex, funicle 6-jointed, 
first joint not very robust, elongate; second joint longer than the third. Eyes 
feebly convex, scarcely free behind. Head wide, and like the beak at base, 
densely scaly, irregularly puuctulate ; frontal fovea small, punctiform. Pro- 
thorax a trifle wider than long, moderately narrowed in front, but scarcely con- 
stricted at the apex, sides nearly straight behind the middle, teebly emarginate 
each side at base ; surface densely and rather coarsely punctured ; scales more 
condensed along the middle and on the sides. Elytra a little wider at the base 
than the prothorax ; sides nearly parallel for one-half their length, thence grad- 
nally rounded to apex, which is moderately dehiscent; striaj wide, impressed, 
punctures large, rounded, and not closely approximate; interspaces convex, 
rugulose; scales a little more condensed on the basal third of the sutural and 
sixth interspace; underside of body densely punctured. I..egs moderately slen- 
der, femora not strongly clavate, anterior with a very small, acute tooth, middle 
and posterior mutic; tibia; not very slender and rather short, anterior and mid- 
