COLEOPTERA. 89 



ginate behind ; in its much more robust form, and in the more sparse 

 and less conspicuous pubescence. 



68. S. veillistus 11. sp. — Form slender. Pubescence short, semi-erect, 

 tine, cinereous, very sparse, except at the sides and toward the tip of the 

 abdomen, where it is slightly more plentiful. Head small but robust, 

 scarcely twice as wide as long ; interocular surface nearly flat, very slightly 

 more than twice as wide as the eye ; equally trilobed by the rather feeble 

 longitudinal sulcations ; intermediate surface very feebly and evenly convex ; 

 punctures extremely coarse, moderately close, deep, rounded, and evenly 

 distributed; interspaces narrow, very convex, and very highly polished; 

 ocular lines meeting at about one and two-thirds lengths in advance ; antennae 

 longer than the width of head, dark piceous-brown, nearly black at base, 

 slender, club distinct; third joint one-fourth as long again as the fourth, 

 fourth and fifth equal, seventh thicker and very slightly shorter than the 

 sixth, eighth distinctly elongate, oval, thicker than the seventh, joints of 

 club increasing uniformly in length, last two equal in thickness, last joint 

 acuminate at tip ; maxillary palpi slender, dark piceous-brown throughout. 

 Prothorax widest slightly behind the middle, where it is nearly four-fifths 

 as wide as the head, and about one-sixth narrower than long ; sides thence 

 feebly convergent posteriorly, sinuate ; sides undulate throughout their 

 length ; anterior margin slightly shorter and much more arcuate than the 

 posterior ; surface rather feebly and longitudinally tuberculate near the 

 basal angles ; punctures close, unevenly distributed, coarse, impressed, 

 somewhat irregular in outline; interspaces highly polished, moderately con- 

 vex. Elytra at base about as wide as the head ; sides moderately divergent 

 posteriorly, slightly longer than the width at base, almost straight; together 

 broadly, somewhat angularly, and rather strongly emarginate behind ; suture 

 equal in length to the pronotum ; surface somewhat depressed, feebly and 

 narrowly impressed along the suture ; outside of the sutural impressed area 

 the punctures are very feebly impressed, somewhat distant, nearly evenly 

 distributed, seldom coalescent, interspaces feebly convex and very highly 

 polished ; within the impressed area the surface is rather closely and con- 

 fusedly channeled. Abdominal segments decreasing uniformly and extremely 

 gradually in width, first as wide as the contiguous elytra ; surface highly 

 polished, moderately convex, finely and very distantly punctulate along the 

 middle, more closely so toward the borders ; transverse carinae 4-cuspid, 

 cusps equidistant, equal in length, long, very finely aciculate, rather promi- 

 nent. Legs short and slender, black, tibiae and tarsi piceous-black beneath ; 

 first joint of the posterior tarsi three-fourths as long again as the second, 

 very much shorter than the fifth, joints two to four uniformly and rather 

 rapidly decreasing in length. 



Male. — Fifth ventral segment not modified; sixth very broad at apex, 

 broadly and feebly sinuate, sinus and apices about equal in width and cur 

 vature, sinus eight times as wide as deep. 



Female. — Unknown. 



Length 2.8 mm. 



Locality not given ; marked 558 (Schwarz). 



