Coleopterological Notices. 359 



Lower California (Cape San Lucas). Cab. LeConte. 



The metasternum is about three-fourths as long as the first ven- 

 tral segment, and is uniformly very coarsely but sparsely and feebly 

 punctate, the transverse groove very deeply excavated. 



Pvnctatus is a very distinct form, of larger size than usual, and 

 remarkable in the coarse densely hairy vestiture of the tarsi, very 

 prominent eyes, as well as the bisinuate base of the prothorax ; the 

 last of these peculiarities it however possesses in common with 

 covicicollis and discretus. In both the latter species the tarsi are 

 sparsely clothed beneath with short spinose setaj as usual. The 

 elytral stria? become very feebly impressed toward apex. 



E. obesiis Lee. — Eurymetopon obes. : Ann. Lye. N. Y., V, p. 139 ; nanulus 

 Casey: Descr. Not. N. A. Col., I, p. 45. — Oblong-oval, moderately robust, 

 very convex, shining, the elytra sometimes slightly dull, piceous-black, the 

 head and prothorax occasionally dark ferruginous from immaturity. Head 

 moderately transverse, the sides nearly straight, finely but strongly, very 

 densely punctate, the epistoma broadly truncate ; eyes small, not prominent ; 

 antennae short, robust, submoniliform, the eighth joint subquadrate, scarcely 

 as long as wide. Prothorax about two-thirds wider than long, the apex nearly 

 four-fifths as wide as the base, extremely feebly sinuate in circular arc. the 

 angles right and very slightly blunt ; base transversely truncate, sometimes 

 very feebly, gradually sinuate toward the basal angles which in that case are 

 just visibly prominent posteriorly, the angles right, narrowly rounded : sides 

 evenly convergent from base to apex, evenly and very feebly arcuate through- 

 out ; disk widest at or very near the base, somewhat coarsely, densely and 

 very strongly punctate, the punctures denser and longitudinally subcoales- 

 cent laterally, but not much larger, the sides very minutely, acutely beaded. 

 Elytra just visibly wider than the prothorax and about two and one-half times 

 as long, parallel, the sides feebly arcuate, the apex obtusely ogival ; disk with 

 distinctly impressed striae of small, approximate, rather feebly impressed 

 punctures, the striae evanescent just before the apex; intervals broadly, very 

 feebly convex, extremely minutely, sparsely and irregularly punctured. 

 Abdomen finely but distinctly, not very sparsely punctate, the punctures be- 

 coming very large near the sides. Legs rather short, moderately slender, the 

 posterior tarsi with sparse spinose setae beneath, slightly shorter than the 

 tibia?. Length 4.5-5.5 mm. : width 1.8-2.4 mm. 



California (San Diego). 



The metasternum is deeply, coarsely punctate, fully three-fourths 

 as long as the first ventral segment, and the transverse groove is 

 only suggested by a broadly and very feebly impressed line of un- 

 evenly placed punctures. The series before me consists of ten 



