Coleopterological Notices, IV. 413 



Vestitiire finely and feebly variegated in color, and with a large sutnral 



spot of white imbricated scales behind the scutellum...ll Ta.riega.tllS 



Vestiture nearly uniform in color, the scales of the npper surface all narrow 



and elongate, the squamules borne by the strial punctures similar to 



the others or very nearly as wide. 



Elytral intervals each with a single nearly even series of narrow scales, 



fulvous to white in color 12 simplex 



Elytral intervals confusedly clothed with scales throughout their width. 

 Elytral scales evenly but not very densely distributed, narrow and 

 slender, oclireous-yellow in color, the middle scales of each interval 



semi-erect, especially toward apex 13 sibillioides 



Elytral scales broader and more closely recumbent, denser along the 



suture, more broadly so behind the middle 14 mica 



Elytra with stiff straight and strongly hispid erect or inclined setse. 



Elytra with large rounded or oval whitish scales, unevenly distributed. 



Elytral setse long and rather slender 15 setosus 



Elytral setse short, broad and scale-like 16 Sll1)fasciatlis 



Elytra with long slender white and fulvous decumbent squamules, entirely 

 without rounded scales ; erect setse rather fine and much more numerous. 



17 Iiispidiis 



The species of groups I and lY are generally taken in abundance 

 when discovered, while those of II and III are apparently much 

 less plentiful in individuals, or possibly less gregarious; they are 

 also a little more closely allied among themselves, forming a more 

 difficult study. 



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1 T. lineellus Lee— Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 217. 



Broadly oval, strongly convex, rather densely clothed above with 

 long, slender, coarsely strigose scales, which are variable in color, 

 and, to some extent also, in distribution; in the best marked speci- 

 mens they are subcupreous in two broad pronotal vittte, and on the 

 alternate intervals of the elytra, elsewhere cinereous, but often 

 cinereous throughout; on the under surface they are whitish, 

 liroader, non-strigose and feathery in structure. The male has the 

 beak short, abruptly tapering beyond the antennae, and the ante- 

 rior tibiiB strongly, acutely toothed internally just beyond the 

 middle; in the female the beak is longer, nearly straight, slender 

 but abruptly thicker very near the base. Length 3.7-4.7 mm. ; 

 width 1.7-2.2 mm. 



California (Siskiyou to San Diego). This is a common species 

 throughout the State. 



