Coleopterological Notices, VI. 547 



tion is taken from the female, which is shorter and thicker in 

 body than the male but not larger in size. 



5. L,. iiiteri'uptiis Lee. — Proc. Acad. Xat. Sei., Phila., VI, p. 357. 



Elongate-oval, strongly convex, highly polished and with a 

 feeble wneons lustre ; interstitial spaces on the head and pronotum 

 polished and without trace of reticulation ; pubescence long, mod- 

 erately coarse, sparse, denuded in rounded spots on the elytra. 

 Head about three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, rather finely 

 and somewhat closely perforato-punctate, broadly biimpressed 

 toward apex ; antenuji? distinctly longer than the prothorax, rufo- 

 piceous,the basal joint black, second palest. Prothorax one-half 

 wider than long, widest two-fifths from the base; sides rounded 

 posteriorly, convergent and straighter toward apex, the latter 

 broadly arcuato-truncate and almost as wide as the base ; angles 

 ver}^ obtuse and blunt ; disk not ver}' coarsel}', deeply, moderately 

 closely punctate, coarsely reto-rugose as usual in leather less than 

 lateral fourth. Elytra three-fourths longer than wide, distinctly 

 wider than the prothorax, acutely ogival in apical third, coarsely 

 and deeply punctate, the punctures separated b^^ about their own 

 widths, finer toward apex. Legs stout, the tarsi rufescent, the 

 posterior distinctly shorter than the tibiae. liength 2.9-3.5 mm.; 

 width 1.0-1.25 mm. 



Nebraska to California. The description is drawn from the fe- 

 male, the male being narrower, with relatively much larger head 

 and with the tips of the elytra less acute. The fifth ventral of 

 the male is broadly but strongl}^ sinuato-truncate at apex, flat- 

 tened on the disk and clothed with long erect and bristling hairs, 

 which become black in apical half. This species extends westward 

 to the crests of the Sierras in California, but does not descend the 

 western slope of the mountains. 



6. L,. ailiplicollifii n. si^. — Elongate-oval, moderately convex, highly 

 polished throughout and with a greenish -brassy lustre above; legs and an- 

 tenna; black, the second joint of the latter piceo-testaceous ; pubescence short, 

 very sparse, rather coarse, confusedly denuded in large anastomosing spots ou' 

 the elytra; intersimces of the head and pronotum polished and with small 

 feeble and widely distant punctures. Head Ijarely three-fifths as wide as the 

 prothorax, not very densely punctate, strongly Inimpressed anteriorl}-; an- 

 tenna; distinctly longer than the prothorax, moderately stout toward apex. 

 Prothorax strongly transverse, three-fourths wider than long, rounded on the 



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