646 Goleopterological Notices, VI. 



slightly flattened in the middle at apex ; the genital segment is 

 large, deeply and angularly incised in the middle and acutely 

 bilobed. 



2. F. Ill Hilda Lee. — Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., V, p. 152; Proe. Acad., 

 1852, p. 95 (Anthicus). 



Less stout and more parallel, convex, highl>^ polished, with 

 some widely scattered punctures bearing long tactile setae, and 

 also having some verj' sparse subdecumbent hairs, otherwise com- 

 pletely devoid of sculpture, pale flavo-testaceous, the head not 

 darker; elytra with the tips of the humeri, a broad band just be- 

 fore the middle narrowed toward, and narrowly interrupted at the 

 suture, and a subapical band also narrciwly interrupted, blackish. 

 Head oval, a little longer than wide, broadly rounded at base ; 

 eyes small but convex, just before the middle; antenna? one-half 

 as long as the body, slender but rapidly and ver}^ strongly in- 

 crassate through the last four joints, the eleventh conoidal and 

 very much shorter than the two preceding. Prothorax only 

 slightly narrower than the head, distinctly longer tlian wide, con- 

 vex, deepl}" but not very acutely constricted rather behind basal 

 third ; basal margin distinct. Elytra nearly two-thirds longer 

 than wide, scarcely more than twice as wide as the prothorax, 

 rounded behind, not connate, the hind wings apparently rather 

 well developed ; sides^ feebly inflated behind ; humeri distinct and 

 well exposed at base ; disk distinctly impressed at basal fourth. 

 Legs rather long and slender, the femora moderately stout. 

 Length 1.9-2.0 mm.; width 0.6 mm. 



California (Yuma). In the male the fifth ventral is evenly 

 rounded behind, unmodified and very much shorter than the two 

 preceding together, the genital segment small, parabolic in out- 

 line, the apex with a small but rather deep and very acutely at- 

 tenuate notch, each of the small lobes inflexed and almost meet- 

 ing at apex ; the copulatory spicule is long, extremely slender 

 and gradually finely pointed, the under surface very feebly im- 

 pressed along the median line, more strongly toward base. This 

 species, although congeneric, is remarkably distinct from scitula. 



3. F. evaiiescens n. sp. — Moderately stout, eon\ ex, higlily polished, 

 ])ristling above with long remote tactile setaj and also having a few shorter 

 distant and more decumbent hairs; integuments without sculpture, pale testa- 

 ceous, the elytral humeri and a median and apical band not interrupted at the 

 suture, black. Head subcjuadrate, scarcely longer than Avide, broadly arcuate- 



