512 Coleox)terological Notices, VI. 



short cinereous hairs; suture bordered narrowly with stilt' inclined 

 cinereous hairs; scutellum sparsel}' clotlied with short fine Ijrown 

 hairs. Head two-thirds as wide as the prothorax, convex, smooth, 

 finely and sparsely punctate, the impressions small and very 

 feeble; antenna? well developed, about as long as the prothorax, 

 distinctly incrassate, the penultimate joints strong!}' transverse. 

 Prothorax lai'ge, two-fifths wider than long, the sides just visibly 

 convergent and extremely feebly arcuate from base to apex, feel)ly 

 serrulate, becoming slightly sinuate toward base, the angles dis- 

 tinct; apical angles nearly right and very distinct ; disk minutely, 

 spai'sely punctate throughout. Elytra at base exactly equal to 

 the base of the prothorax and closely applied throughout the 

 width, three-fifths longer than wide, the sides just visibly con- 

 vergent from the base ; apex rather stronglj^ rounded ; punctures 

 fine but sparse and somewhat strong. Length 2.4-3.75 mm. ; 

 width 1.1-l.T mm. 



California (San Diego). An abundant species, represented in 

 my cabinet by a large series exhibiting as usual great variability 

 in size. The description here given is taken from the male, and 

 the female is broader with a relatively more transverse prothorax, 

 slightly smaller head and parallel elytra which are more broadly 

 rounded at apex. I cannot distinguish the original types of con- 

 formis from this species. 



56. T. varill^ n. sp. — Oblong, strongly convex, shining, black or with a 

 faint piceous tinge; elytral apices rufescent ; legs, epistoma and labruni pale 

 rufo-testaceous ; antennae testaceous, blackish toward apex ; ])ul)eseence short, 

 dense, decumbent, jKile hiteo-cinereous, blackisli and inconsi)icuous in a 

 broad pronotal vitta, and in a broad and well defined stripe on each 

 elytron not attaining the apex and nearer the suture than the exterior 

 margin; erect hairs, long, cinereous, scarcely evident toward the mid- 

 dle but dense and bristling laterally. Head nearly four-fifths as wide as 

 the prothorax, linely, sparsely punctate, smooth, the impressions sub- 

 obsolete; epistoma transverse; labrum large, strongly rounded; eyes pronii- 

 nent, moderate in size; antennne rather slender, strongly seiTate and setose 

 within, one-third longer than the jn'othorax, the tenth joint but little wider 

 than long and sulttriangular, fifth slightly dilated. Prothorax rather small, 

 not quite one-half w ider than long, the sides fee])ly convergent from base to 

 apex and strongly, almost evenly arcuate; angles very obtuse and rounded; 

 apex narrower than the ba,se, arcuate; disk finely and sparsely punctate, pol- 

 ished, not at all rugose laterally. El,y(ra one-half longer than wide, at ba«;e 

 about one-thirtl wider than the prothorax, the sides feebly convergent from 

 the base; apex obtuse; disk rather finely but strongly, not very densely punc- 



