106 H. C. FALL. 



the eyes than to each other, front flat between them ; first joint 

 stout, longer than wide, 2-10 narrower and of equal width ; secoud 

 half the length of the first; third nearly as long as the first and 

 equal to the fourth and fifth united ; 4-10 subequal and slightly 

 longer than wide; eleventh a little wider than the preceding and as 

 long as the ninth and tenth united, oval, acuminate. Prothorax a 

 little wider than long, widest at middle, sides quite strongly rounded, 

 not constricted at base, broadly feebly sulcate at middle, and im- 

 pressed each side near the base. Scutellum invisible. Elytra glo- 

 bose, a little depressed, nearly twice as wide as the prothorax. 

 Anterior coxa? rather narrowly separated ; the middle coxae more 

 widely separated, but distant less than their own diameter; hind 

 coxae widely separated, the trochanters barely reaching the elytral 

 margin when directed outward. Metasternum scarcely as long at 

 middle as the second ventral segment, emarginate behind. Second 

 and third ventral segments equal, and a little longer than the first 

 at the middle, the post coxal width of the latter only about half its 

 median or lateral width ; fourth very short, fifth fully as long as the 

 second. Thighs rather stout and moderately clavate ; front tibiae 

 short, almost triangular; hind tibiae slender; tarsi about three 

 fourths the length of the tibiae, slender, fourth joint not wider ; claws 

 divergent. Body densely clothed throughout with scales intermixed 

 with erect bristles. 



T. globuluni Sol. — Robust, brown, densely clothed above and beneath with 

 elongate pale yellowish brown scales, marraorate with darker brown on the 

 elytra, and with a small elongate blackish brown spot on each side of the suture 

 at base. On the prothorax the scales are replaced by an exceedingly dense mat 

 of interlacing hairs. The pronotum appears to be broadly longitudinally sulcate 

 at middle and impressed laterally at base, but these effects are almost entirely 

 due to variations in the length of the vestiture. ' surface of the pronotum is 

 rather closely granulose, that of the elytra finely p..nctu.ite and with rows of 

 larger punctures which are, however, quite concealed by the scaly covering. 

 Each interspace of the elytra bears a row of short erect bristles, and on alternate 

 interspaces these short bristles alternate with longer ones; there are also some 

 longer curved hairs at the humeri, and at the front and sides of the prothorax. 

 Length 2.5 mm. 



This insect is not rare at and near San Francisco, where it is 

 found on the ground under rubbish, but does not occur in houses. I 

 have seen examples from Oregon, and also a single specimen found 

 • in a dead cormorant at Pasadena, California, by Mr. F. S. Daggett. 



Specimens of this species received many years ago from San Fran- 



