REVISION OF TENEBRIONID SUBFAMILY CONIONTIN^ 99 



finely and sparsely but rather strongly punctate. Length 14.0 

 mm.; width 5.75 mm. California innocua n. sp. 



Prothorax more elongate, evidently less than one-half wider than long. 

 Body elongate, parallel, convex, deep black, glabrous, polished, 

 the pronotum sometimes feebly alutaceous ; head strongly and 

 rather sparsely but not very coarsely punctate, more finely and very 

 sparsely toward base, the lobes broadly rounded, unimpressed, 

 the anterior canthus narrowly rounded, slightly less prominent 

 than the posterior ; prothorax with the sides only moderately con- 

 verging and broadly rounded anteriorly, the apex nearly three- 

 fourths as wide as the base, the circularly rounded sinus moderate 

 in depth, the angles rather obtuse and bluntly rounded ; surface 

 minutely, remotely punctate, much more strongly and less sparsely 

 laterally, the marginal bead moderate; scutellum triangular, not 

 very transverse ; elytra nearly three- fourths longer than wide, 

 about as wide as the prothorax or slightly less, rather abruptly 

 subangulate at tip, the surface nearly smooth, rather finely, re- 

 motely punctate suturally, less remotely and more strongly toward 

 the sides, which are finely reflexed ; prosternum rather finely and 

 sparsely punctate, the process with a distinct and entire marginal 

 groove and moderately coarse bead ; hind femora and abdomen 

 minutely, very sparsely punctate. Length i 2.3-1 ^.o mm. ; width 

 5.0-6.0 mm. ((J", 9). Benicia. Collected by the writer in con- 

 siderable number elongata Csy. 



A — Similar to elongata throughout though a little stouter, the an- 

 terior canthus fuller and less angulate at the eyes but similarly 

 less prominent than the posterior, the elytra barely more than 

 one-half longer than wide and more obtuse at tip (?), and the 

 prosternal process broader, with relatively finer marginal bead, 

 its apex similarly circularly rounded. Length 14.8 mm. ; 

 width 6.7 mm. California. Cab. Levette...limatula n. subsp. 



7 — Form relatively rather stout, the largest species of the group, pol- 

 ished throughout, glabrous and deep black above, piceo-rufous 

 beneath ; head coarsely, deeply and not densely punctate, the 

 punctures becoming sparse and very minute toward base, the lobes 

 imimpressed, the sinus broad and circularly rounded, the canthi 

 nearly as in elongata; prothorax shorter, fully one-half wider than 

 long, the sides subparallel and nearly straight from the base to 

 about apical third, where they are rather strongly rounded, thence 

 strongly converging and almost straight to the angles, which are 

 right and somewhat blunt; apex two-thirds as wide as the base, 

 with the sinus only moderately deep, the base sensibly wider than 

 the base of the elytra ; surface very obsoletely ridged along the 

 median line, very minutely, remotely punctate, more distinctly 

 but still sparsely laterally, the marginal bead moderate; scutellum 

 as in elongata; elytra evidently more than one-half longer than 

 wide, somewhat gradually acutely ogival at apex, nearly smooth, 

 everywhere finely and very remotely punctate; prosternum finely. 



