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ternus, it may be known in addition b}- the black legs. A single 

 specimen. 



11. T. sparsu$^ n. sp. — Elongate-oval, strongly convex, polished, black, 

 the upi)er surface with a scarcely perceptible metallic lustre; the legs and an- 

 tennae throughout dark rufous; pubescence somewhat long and fine, closely de- 

 cumbent, very sparse but cinereous and distinct. Head fully two-thirds as 

 mde as the prothorax, rather convex, polished, finely, sparsely punctate, the 

 anterior impressions large hut very feeble; epistoma at apex and labrum pale, 

 the latter In'oadly rounded; eyes moderately large and prominent; antennaj 

 a little longer than the prothorax, the fifth and seventh joints very feebly 

 dilated, the tenth transverse. Prothorax three-fifths wider than long, the sides 

 feebly convergent from ])ase to apex and feebly, evenly arcuate; basal angles 

 broadly rounded, the apical obtuse and nearly as broadly rounded as the basal; 

 apex truncate in the middle; base very broadly arcuato-truncate, slightly but 

 perceptibly wider than the apex, disk finely, remotely punctate, not at all 

 scabrous at the sides, the interspaces smooth and polished. Elytra two-thirds 

 longer than wide, only very slightly wider than the prothorax, feebly inflated 

 behind basal fourth, the sides becoming slightly arcuate; apex very broadly 

 rounded; humeri tumid but not large; punctures very coarse, impressed and 

 si^arse. Abdomen rather densely clothed with short fine pubescence, the legs 

 somewhat short. Length 3.2-3.4 mm. ; width 1.25-1.4 mm. 



Colorado. 



The type is a female having the fifth ventral prodnced at the 

 middle of the apex in an acute and prominent cusp, the surface 

 feebh' deflexed toward tip and very slightly impressed in the 

 middle, with some long erect black sette toward the sides ; the 

 genital segment is large, broadly arcuate at apex, broadly im- 

 pressed and finely, deeply canaliculate along the middle. 



This species and the next, of the Rocky Mountain region, dif- 

 fer eonspieuousl}' in general t3'pe from the Californian species 

 which immediately precede. The side margins of the body bear 

 a close and even fringe of moderately short sette. In the present 

 species the elytral punctures become much finer and distinctly 

 closer toward apex, and the pubescence becomes correspondingly 

 a little less sparse. Two specimens. 



12. T. ciliattis n. sp. — Subcylindrical, polished, black, the elytra rufo- 

 piceous, becoming darker toward Ijase; legs bright rufo-ferruginous through- 

 out; antennte pale testaceous, slighth' piceous at the extreme ai)ex; i)ubescence 

 rather long, moderately coarse, very .sparse, cinereous and distinct. Head 

 about two-thirds as wide as the prothorax, rather short, finely but strongly, 

 remotely punctate, polished throughout and not in the least .sciibrous; anterior 

 impressions very feeble, separated at apex bj- a large convex impunctate area; 



