Dec, 1904] SCHAEFFER : NeW CoLEOPTERA. 217 



punctate, moderately densely pubescent with shorter decumbent hairs, sparsely inter- 

 mixed with longer erect hairs, color a little paler than the head and thorax, at middle 

 a broad paler fascia irregular in outline. Body beneath slightly paler than above, 

 metasternum moderately coarsely punctured, abdomen more sparsely. Legs pale 

 testaceous, pubescent with shorter and longer hairs. Length, 8 mm. 



Texas, one male in my possession kindly given to me a few years 

 ago by Mr. Chas. Fuchs to whom this species is dedicated. 



This species is to be placed near punctata Lee. with which it is 

 confused in nearly all the collections possessing it. It differs from 

 that species by the longer, coarser pubescence, large perforate elytral 

 punctures, the apices separately rounded and the penultimate ventral 

 segment broadly triangularly emarginate, the last broadly emarginate 

 with the angles prolonged, the last dorsal is narrower than the last 

 ventral and apparently broadly rounded at apex, or truncate, the 

 vestiture being dense and obscuring this part. 



Cymatodera van dykei, new species. 



Brown, form slender, body apterous, surface sparsely pubescent, elytra with an 

 indistinct pale transverse fascia about middle. Head very densely punctured, eyes 

 feebly prominent. Antenn&e scarcely longer than the head and prothorax. Thorax 

 much longer than broad, constricted in front of middle and behind, base narrower 

 than apex with distinct antescutellar impression, on each side tuberculate, surface 

 transversely strigose in front coarsely punctured in male, in the female the punctation 

 is very dense but very faintly strigose. Elytra very little wider at base than the 

 thorax, humeri feeble, sides feebly arcuate, slightly broadening to apex, apices separ- 

 ately rounded ; disk with rows of coarse punctures, closely placed, becoming slightly 

 smaller to apex. Body beneath and legs paler, finely and moderately closely punctate. 

 Length 11-12 mm. 



Male. — Fifth ventral segment broadly moderately deeply emarginate, sixth 

 small, parallel, triangularly emarginate, with the angles very much prolonged ; to 

 sixth dorsal elongate, very little narrower at apex which is truncate, with a very feeble 

 notch at middle. 



Female. — Fifth ventral nearly truncate, sixth broadly oval at tip, last dorsal 

 broadly oval at tip. 



California (Los Angeles Co.). 



Two specimens kindly given to me by Dr. Van Dyke to whom 

 this species is dedicated. 



Related to angiistata and ovipennis from both of which it is dis- 

 tinct by the different form of the fifth and sixth ventral segments ; 

 angiistata which it more nearly resembles has shorter antennae. The 

 ten specimens of ovipennis before me have the thorax more compressed 

 behind than angiistata or van dykei. 



