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deep black throughout, the antennje piceous with a testaceous 

 fusoid club of about three joints ; head densely but less coarsely 

 punctate ; prothorax nearly two and three-fourths times as wide 

 as long, the sides rounded and converging anteriorly, becoming 

 parallel, though rounded, toward base and converging toward the 

 very obtuse basal angles as usual, the apical angles less broadly 

 rounded than in ^rossus ; surface inore coarsely and much more 

 closely punctured, scarcely differing on the explanate lateral part, 

 the bead fine but well defined, not punctate ; elytra about as wide 

 as long, not wider than the prothorax, formed nearly as in ^lo- 

 bosus and similarly sculptured, sparsely pubescent toward the sides 

 posteriorly; prosternal process strongly constricted, its neck gen- 

 erally but little more than half as wide as the dilated posterior 

 portion; abdomen polished as usual, not coarsely but strongly, 

 rather sparsely punctate. Length 7.6-9.6 mm.; width 5.0-6.0 

 mm. Redondo Beach saginatus n. sp. 



5 — Head well developed, very nearly half as wide as the prothorax. 

 Body oblong-oval, more elongate than usual, strongly convex, 

 polished, black, with the under surface piceous to piceous-brown 

 throughout ; head coarsely punctured behind, more finely and 

 sparsely before, the transverse grobve, which is coarser and deeper 

 than in the preceding species, the epistoma more swollen trans- 

 versely toward the middle and more impressed or flattened at the 

 lobes; antennal club fusiform as usual, of about four joints ; pro- 

 thorax rather less than two and one-half times as wide as long, 

 the sides moderately and subevenly converging from base to apex 

 and subevenly, moderately arcuate, the angles not more than blunt, 

 very much less rounded than in the four preceding ; surface rather 

 finely, very sparsely punctate, the punctures unequally distributed, 

 having occasional vacant areas, rapidly declivous laterally and only 

 narrowly explanate at the sides, where there are some scattered 

 coarser punctures in addition, the bead fine and feeble ; elytra but 

 very slightly longer than wide, rounded at the sides, becoming par- 

 allel only basally, only just visibly wider than the prothorax, obtuse 

 and vertically declivous posteriorly, coarsely, sparsely punctato- 

 muricate, more closely and finely granulate posteriorly, the fulvous 

 pubescence conspicuous near the apex; prosternal process strongly 

 constricted ; abdomen very finely and remotely punctate, the last 

 segment more coarsely and closely so as usual. Length 5.5-7.5 

 mm.; width 3.2-4.4 mm. San Francisco, — found only on the 

 sea-beaches ciliatus Esch . 



A — Similar in general to ciliatus hwt with the body materially 

 larger and notably more elongate, the elytra much longer than 

 wide ; prosternal process even somewhat more strongly con- 

 stricted, the hind femora more coarsely and conspicuously punc- 

 tured. Length 8.0 mm. ; width 4.7 mm. San Francisco. 



longulus n. subsp. 



Head much smaller, very evidently less than half as wide as the pro- 

 thorax 6 



