522 Coleopterological Notices, VI. 



than wide, not perceptibly wider than the prothorax, the sides straight and 

 sul)])arallel; apex rather broadly rounded; disk finely and relatively not very 

 densely punctate. Abdomen densely cinereo-pultescent, the legs nuKlerate. 

 Length 3.0 mm.; width 1.2 mm. 



California. 



The male described as the type has the fifth ventral feebly sin- 

 uato-truncate at apex ; it is the only specimen known to me. 

 The species is allied to hirfelhis, but may be easily distinguished 

 bj' certain peculiarities of vestiture and coloration, the tip of the 

 elytra not being rufescent and the erect setae blacker and sparser. 



71. T. hirtellus Lee.— rroe. Acad. Nat. ^oi., Thila., 186G, p. 353 

 ( Prist oscel is). 



Oblong, convex, polished, black, with a feeble grayish-metallic 

 lustre; elytral apices pale ; coriaceous hind margins of the ab- 

 dominal segments and tip of the fifth pale ; legs and antenuix? pale 

 rufo-ferruginous throughout ; pubescence rather long, coarse and 

 dense, pale luteo-cinereous, with long erect and sparser hairs brist- 

 ling from the upper surface, these largely- black anteriorly but 

 cinereous at the edges, pale on the elytra sparsely intermingled 

 Avith blackish on the disk. Heod three-fourths as wide as the 

 prothorax. strongly and rather densely punctate; epistoma mod- 

 erately long, pale and polished ; labrum completely i)ale. strongly 

 rounded ; eyes moderate, not attaining the base ; antenna' long, 

 and slender, serrate, much longer than the piothorax, the penulti- 

 mate joints full}' as long as wide. Prothorax rather small and 

 transverse, one-half wider than long, the sides arcuate, convergent 

 anteriorly, the angles all obtuse and rounded ; apex and base 

 broadly and feebly arcuate, the former distinctly the narrower ; 

 disk rather finely, not denselv punctate, not rugose at the sides. 

 Elytra oblong, one-half longer than wide, one-third wider than 

 the prothorax, parallel, broadl^y rounded and almost truncate at 

 apex, finel}', strongly and somewhat densely punctured. Length 

 2.5-3.2 mm.; width 1.1-1.3 mm. 



Lower California (Cape San Lucas). The siiecimen described 

 is a female, having the fifth ventral rounded behind, though 

 broadl}- so, and the tibial spurs simple. I have two males from 

 Arizona which are apparently assignable to this species, and in 

 these the head and prothorax are almost the same in rela- 

 tive size and shai)e, luit the prothorax is larger and wider when 

 compared with the elytra. The slender antenna', elytral colora- 



