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tured, the strial setae white, slender, but distinct. Legs rather short but 

 slender, the femora not dentate. Length 1.6-1.7 mm. ; width 0.75 mm. 



Texas (Big Spring-s). Mr. H. F. Wickham. 



Allied to setosus, but easily distinguishable by the somewhat 

 smaller scales of the upper surface, shorter and stouter erect seta?, 

 and by the shorter, rather thicker beak and longer elytra. In both 

 of these species the erect bristles are confined to the alternate inter- 

 vals, except toward apex. Sexual differences are not evident, even 

 in the length or structure of the beak. The third and fourth ven- 

 tral sutures are almost obliterated by the dense crust of scales, but 

 appear to be sinuate near the sides, although not flexed backward 

 to any noticeable extent. Four specimens. 



17 T. IlispidUS n. sp. — Oblong-oval, rather convex, piceous, elytra, 

 except on the suture, more broadly toward base, legs, beak and antennae, 

 rufous ; vestiture moderately dense, not very uneven, consisting, on the 

 upper surface, of long slender squamules, subrecumbent, whitish and pale 

 fulvous confusedly intermingled, evenly distributed over the pronotum and 

 entire width of the elytral intervals, and without trace of large rounded 

 scales ; all the elytral intervals throughout their length with single series 

 of long erect bristling setse, whitish in color and rather widely spaced ; 

 squamules of the strial punctures distinct, white ; under surface rather 

 densely clothed with large oval whitish scales. Bead finely squamulose, the 

 transverse impression subobsolete ; eyes transversely fusiform ; beak in the 

 male rather stout, very feebly tapering and slightly arcuate throughout, 

 squamulose except near the apex, about as long as the head and prothorax, 

 with the antennae inserted just behind apical third; in the female very 

 slightly longer, thick, squamulose and subinflated in basal half, very thin, 

 glabrous and cylindrical in apical half, the antennae inserted at the middle ; 

 antennfe rather short, the basal joint of the funicle subequal to the next 

 three, second one-half longer than the third. Prothorax one-fourth wider 

 than long, the sides very feebly arcuate, slightly constricted behind the apex, 

 the latter two-thirds as wide as the base. Elytra two-fifths wider than the 

 prothorax and very nearly three times as long, about one-half longer than 

 wide, suboval, the sides parallel and just visibly arcuate, gradually con- 

 vergent and more rounded toward apex, the latter less obtuse than usual. 

 Posterior femora unarmed. Length 1.4-1.8 mm. ; width 0.65-0.8 mm. 



Arizona (Santa Rita Mts.). Mr. H. F. Wickham. 



This inconspicuous species is somewhat allied to setosus and sub- 

 fasciatus, but only in possessing erect bristling setae, otherwise it 

 differs greatly in the entire absence of large rounded scales on the 

 upper surface, and in the strongly marked sexual characters of the 

 beak, the latter, somewhat unusually, being more rapidly and 



