CoIeopfe?'oIo[/icaI Notices^ VI. 519 



the elytra being only just A'isibly shorter and broader, and the 

 head about three-fifths as wide as the prothorax. The fifth ven- 

 tral in the male is transversely truncate and short as usual. Six 

 specimens. 



This species may be readily distinguished from hi/stHx by its 

 more elongate and depressed form and feebly rounded sides of 

 the prothorax. 



66. T. tectus n. sp.— Ohlono, ratlier stout, strongly convex, polished, black, 

 without metallic lustre ; legs pioeous-lilack ; antenna^ black, piceous toward base; 

 pubescence long, coarse, cinereous, subdecumbent, intermixed throughout the 

 upper surface -vWth moderately abundant very coarse and erect l)lack setoe. 

 Head three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, smooth and polished, rather finely 

 but strongly and somewhat closely ijerforato-punctate, the impressions almost 

 obsolete ; epistoma large, transverse ; labrum large and long, broadly rounded, 

 with a transverse series of stiff setse behind the middle; eyes rather large but 

 not prominent; antennae barely as long as the prothorax, feebly iucrassate to- 

 ward tip, the penultimate joints distinctly trans\ erse. Prothorax three-fifths 

 wider than long, parallel, the sides evenly and feebly arcuate throughout; all 

 the angles slightly obtuse and blunt though distingui.shahle; apex aud base 

 equal, feebly and equally arcuate; disk finely Imt strongly, rather sparsely 

 perforato-punctate, not at all rugose toward the sides. Elytra one-half longer 

 than wide, not evidently wider than the prothorax, parallel aud straight at 

 the sides, the apex evenly and almost semi-circularly rounded; disk finely but 

 strongly, closely punctate, the interspaces smooth. Abdomen very densely 

 clothed wdth cinereous pubescence, Avhich is rather long and coarse. Length 

 4.0 mm.; width 1.65 mm. 



California. 



The single specimen is a female without further record of 

 locality. The species is ver}' distinct because of its rather large 

 size and ver}- long shaggy coat of pale cinereous hairs, in addi- 

 tion to the erect sette. 



67. T. sordidiis Lee— Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., YI, p. 16!) (Dasy- 

 tes); 1. c, 1866, p. 354 ( Pristoscelis ) . 



Oblong-oval, moderately convex, polished and smooth through- 

 out the upper surface, black, the legs and antennie black, the 

 funicle of the latter slightly picescent toward base; pubescence 

 long, coarse, cinereous and rather dense, subdecumbent, inter- 

 mixed throughout aliove witli l)ristling erect setae which are 

 mostly black in color. Head scarcely three-fifths as wide as 

 the prothorax, finely but strongly, sparsely punctate, the frontal 

 impressions narrow, distinct and more densely punctate; epi- 



