200 NEW SPECIES MELYRIDAE, CHRYSOMELIDAE AND TENEBRIONIDAE 



less and smooth with a few obsolete granules along the margin, lateral 

 bead rather moderate and briefly reflexed. 



Propleura dull, almost sculptureless and smooth. 



Elytra oblong-oval, somewhat widest behind the middle, obliquely 

 declivous posteriorly, less than twice as long as wide, almost flattened 

 dorsally; sides rather broadly rounded and moderately inflexed, feebly 

 sinuate before the apex which is slightly prominent ; disk with ten series 

 of punctures, punctures moderate in size, rather corroded, closely and 

 slightly irregularly placed, series feebly impressed, intervals perfectly flat 

 centrally and basally and with a single series of smaller and widely spaced, 

 feebly submuricate punctures ; laterally and on the apical declivity the 

 intervals are scarcely convex, and with a single series of widely spaced 

 muricate tubercles which are scarcely longer than their width at base. 



Sterna. Prosternum smooth and sculptureless anteriorly and later- 

 ally ; process between the coxae rather broadly oval, longitudinally im- 

 pressed and coarsely rugoso-punctate, apex rounded with a small mucro 

 at tip. Mesosternum obsoletely and sparsely punctate laterally, moder- 

 ately declivous and briefly vertical at middle anteriorly, coarsely rugoso- 

 punctate, smooth posteriorly between the coxae. Metasternum smooth 

 and very strongly punctate. 



Parapleura smooth, sparsely and more or less obsoletely punctate. 



Abdomen flattened throughout middle third, smooth and very sparsely 

 punctate; process oblong-quadrate, surface with an oval and slightly 

 raised swelling at middle, otherwise more or less rugose ; first segment 

 with a few punctures behind the coxae, fourth with a subapical line of 

 punctures, fifth sparsely and evenly punctured, punctures somewhat coarse 

 throughout. 



Legs moderate in length ; femora sparsely punctate ; tibiae densely 

 sculptured, each puncture with a ferruginous seta; tarsi with similarly 

 colored setae, plantar grooves open. 



Male. Narrower and more parallel. 



Female. Slightly broader and a little inflated, (Only an abdomen 

 at hand.) 



Measurements. Length (Male), 21 mm.; width, 9 mm. An abdo- 

 men of a female measures 10 mm. in width. 



Holotype, male, in my own collection. 



Type locality. Dulzura, San Diego County, California. 



Habitat. Dulzura and Poway, San Diego County, California. 



Dulzurae was identified for me as asperata Horn more than twenty- 

 five years ago. For about twenty years I had only an abdomen on a pin 

 representing this species. On my ranch at Poway, where I lived for 

 eleven years, I took only one living specimen, but the dead bodies of this 



