314 Coleopterological Notices. 



California (Monterey). 



The most slender species known to me, belonging near linearis 

 Cr., but smaller, pale throughout and with finer, sparser punctua- 

 tion, especially of the abdomen. As in the species mentioned the 

 real punctures of the pronotum are very fine, each situated on the 

 summit of a relatively coarse tubercle. 



Structurally, this species differs from linearis in the antenna 3 and 

 maxillary palpi, the antennal club being parallel and with joints 

 nine and ten almost equal in linearis. In pertenuis the terminal 

 joint of the maxillary palpi is shorter, more parallel and more 

 broadly truncate at apex ; these differences are quite conspicuous 

 in degree. 



L,. Illicleatus n. sp. — Rather slender, parallel, convex, piceous-bro\\ n, 

 dull ; pubescence coarse, short and recumbent but not squamiform. Head a 

 little narrower than the base of the prothorax, parallel, broadly truncate, 

 very slightly wider than long, feebly constricted at base ; upper surface rather 

 Hat, coarsely, densely punctate and scabrous ; eyes small, a little shorter than 

 the tempora, slightly prominent ; antennae rather long and slender, very 

 sparsely clothed with long herissate setae which are very conspicuous on the 

 club, the latter elongate, subparallel and loose, joints one to six or seven 

 longer than wide. Prothorax fully as wide as long, strongly narrowed from 

 apex to base, the sides broadly but rather strongly sinuate throughout ; apex 

 much wider than the base, broadly, feebly arcuate ; basal angles rather acute, 

 not rounded ; disk with complex tracery and very feeble impressions nearly 

 as in pertenuis, coarsely granulato-punctate. Elytra nearly three times as long 

 as the prothorax and a very little wider than the disk of the latter ; sides 

 parallel and almost straight ; humeri narrowly rounded ; apex very slightly 

 conjointly produced in the middle as a squarely truncate lobe ; disk without 

 trace of longitudinal costa?, but in their place having slightly broader flattened 

 nude and impunctate intervals, which are interrupted at long distances by 

 small tumid elevations, bearing a dense tuft of whitish seta? ; spaces between 

 the flat tumuliferous intervals occupied by a double line of coarse, non-seti- 

 gerous punctures, the two series very approximate, the interval separating 

 them bearing a very closely-spaced double line of coarse yellowish seta?, which 

 are pointed longitudinally backward. Abdomen very dull and scabrous, the 

 punctures rather sparse and indistinct. Length 2.7-3.4 mm. 



California (Monterey). 



I obtained a small series of this species from the blossoming 

 branches of the Monterey pine. Although belonging to the line- 

 aris division of the genus, it is at once distinguishable from any 

 other described form, by the densely pubescent nuclei of the elytra 

 and the absence of costal lines. It is more robust than linearis. 



