812 Coleopterological Notices, VI. 



suture straiglit, feebly arcuate at the middle, the lifth sejiinent impressed along 

 the middle in the male. Lcf/f< long, the anterior tibiie very strongly bent near 

 the apex, denticulate along the inner edge. Length* 10.7-11.0 mm.; width 

 3.6-3.75 mm. 



Washington State (Tacoma); Oregon. 



One of the two males before me has a feebly impressed and en- 

 tire median line of the pronotum which is altogether wanting in 

 the other. I have not seen the female, but the elytra are prob- 

 ably shorter and broader in that sex. with the fifth ventral acutely 

 triangular and not broadly rounded. The internal spur at the 

 apex of the hind tibiae is extremely short and rudimentar}'. 



I>. vemicifer n. sp. — Ovoidal, strongly convex, black, the antennae 

 and tarsi not paler; vestiture consisting of small rounded opalescent and pale 

 Iduish-gray scales, feebly and altogether indefinitely variegated with brown on 

 the elytra and more extensively on the pronotum, also having numerous short 

 erect hairs disposed without order on the elytral intervals. Head large and 

 convex, three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, the eyes separated by barely 

 three times their own width; beak rather stout, thick, much thinner toward 

 base in profile, not more tlian one-half longer than wide and two-tiiirds as long 

 as the prothorax, the transverse impression distinct; antennic long, the scape 

 extending almost to the prothorax, clavate at tij), the funicle filiform but rather 

 thick, scarcely as long as the prothorax, the second joint slightly longer than 

 the first and subequal to the next two together, seventh much longer and 

 thicker than the sixth, club very slender, gradually acute. Prothorax about 

 as long as wide, the sides parallel and broadly arcuate, somewhat more dis- 

 tinctly so near basal third; apex and base equal; ocular lobes very broad, 

 feeble and with a short dense fringe. Elytra barely one-half longer than wide, 

 slightly more than twice as long as the prothorax and about one-half w ider, 

 the sides parallel and broadly arcuate; humeri obsolete, ihe basal margin 

 however acute and prominent at the sides ; apex narrowly rounded; suture 

 strongly tuberculate at the summit of the declivity, thence deep, nearly 

 straight and subvertical in profile to the apex; serial punctures somewhat 

 coarse, deep, close-set, perforate and slightly elongate, each with a short an- 

 terior hair; intervals alternately flat and scarcely perceptibly convex. Ahdo- 

 men rather finely and closely punctate, somewhat densely clothed with short 

 coarse whitish pubescence interspersed with a few scales, the first suture 

 straight and broadly, deeply impressed; fifth segment triangular and slightly 

 tumid along the middle. Leij.s long, the anterior tibi;e strongly and abruptly 

 bent near the apex and minutely and distantly denticulate along the inner 

 edge; terminal mucro of the hind tibiie rather distinct. Length 9.5 mm.; 

 width 4.2 mm. 



Idaho (Fort Cci'ur (rAli-ne). Lt. Jas. A. Leyden. 



*The measurements of length exclude the beak l)ut include the head in all 

 the Khynchophora here described. 



