118 H. C. FALL. 



ping at Kaweah, which is not very far from the original locality. 

 The color is brown, darker in the female, with the middle of the 

 elytra in the male sometimes darker. The species may be at once 

 distinguished from all others, except verticalis, by the relatively 

 dense sordid yellow vestiture. 



9. 1*. agnatus u. sp. — Form of fur; rufous, except the elytra, which in the 

 male incline to piceous, with the suture paler, hut in the female are entirely 

 piceous. In the male the eyes are large and separated on the front by a distance 

 which is scarcely equal to the combined length of the first and second antennal 

 joints. Prothorax coarsely closely granulate, the median line not prominent 

 before the constriction, the hairs of the disk not conspicuously dense on the lat- 

 eral tubercles or on either side the median line. Punctures of elytral stria? mod- 

 erate, closely placed, each bearing a minute appressed hair, the interspaces ( % ) 

 scarcely wider than the strife, each with a row of rather fine bristles, which are 

 about twice as long as the width of the interspaces, moderately inclined and 

 very feebly recurved. Throughout the surface are scattered whitish appressed 

 squamiform hairs which are condensed in a narrow oblique fascia at the apical 

 fourth, and sometimes in a similar though ill-defined transverse subbasal one. In 

 the female the alternate interspaces of the elytra bear exceedingly long, fine, 

 erect hairs, these nearly or quite equal ling in length the distance from the suture 

 to the fourth stria, the shorter hairs being less than half as long. The white 

 squamiform hairs are less widely scattered, being nearly all condensed in conspic- 

 uous anterior and posterior fascia-, which, as usual, do not reach the suture. First 

 joint of hind tarsi subequal to the next two united. Length 2-3 mm. 



Southern California, Los Angeles and San Diego Counties. 



10. F. cognatus n. sp. 



Exceedingly closely allied to agnatus and possibly not distinct. 

 The most conspicuous difference is in the length of the erect hairs 

 of the elytra in the female, both the shorter and longer hairs being 

 nearly or quite one-half longer in agnatus than in the present spe- 

 cies. As already remarked, the longer hairs in agnatus are nearly 

 as long as the distance from the suture to the fourth stria; in cogna- 

 tus they would not attain the third stria. The males of the two 

 forms are more difficult to separate than the females. In agnatus 

 the antennae are rather more slender, the tenth joint about four 

 times as long as wide and with apex less than twice as wide as base : 

 in cognatus the tenth joint is about three times as long as wide and 

 the apex twice as wide as the base. These, it should be remarked, 

 are the prevailing conditions, though some slight variation is per- 

 ceptible. In cognatus the thighs appear to be infuscate in fully 

 colored specimens, but never so in agnatus. 



