238 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, 



Helops stenotriclioides n. sp.— 9. Length 11.5 mm., width 4.0 mm. 

 Elongate oval, piceous, head, antennae and legs rufo-piceous. Head 

 transverse, finely and densely punctured ; epistoma depressed, and trun- 

 cate at apex, angles narrowly rounded ; eyes convex, round (viewed from 

 above), prominent ; antennae slender, outer joints very slightly com- 

 pressed, reaching to middle third of elytra, feebly incrassate, third joint 

 slightly shorter than the next two, fifth just visibly shorter than the fourth, 

 eleventh ellipsoidal and just perceptably longer than the eighth. Pro- 

 thorax quadrate : apex strongly arcuate and equal to the base, apical 

 angles feebly rounded ; base truncate, angles subrectangular ; sides 

 feebly arcuate anteriorly, nearly straight and feebly convergent posteriorly; 

 disc evenly, moderately, transversely convex, rather finely, very densely 

 punctate throughout, at sides the interspaces raised into very fine, wavy 

 longitudinal rugae. Elytra twice as long as wide, and nearly two and 

 one-half times longer than the prothorax ; base slightly wider than the 

 contiguous base of the flatter ; humeri slightly prominent and narrowly 

 rounded ; sides nearly parallel anteriorly, ratfier strongly arcuate in pos- 

 terior third to apex ; disc moderately convex, widest at junction of middle 

 with posterior third, finely striate, intervals with a few scattered, very 

 fine transverse rugae, each interval with a single series of irregularly 

 spaced, small tubercles, which become obsolete towards the suture. 

 Abdovien very finely and moderately sparsely punctate, clothed with very 

 short, sparse, flavate hairs, which are rather long, and flying on the last 

 ventral segment ; metasternum between coxa and groove equal to the 

 first ventral segment in length. Legs moderately slender, tibiae pubes- 

 cent. 



Male. — Length 8.0 mm. ; width 2.5 mm. Slender, subparallel, antennae 

 reaching to middle of the elytra, third joint equal to the next two, others 

 more elongate, eleventh about twice as long as wide. Elytral intervals 

 convex and narrow. 



California (Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County. 



Several specimens taken in November and December from 

 iDeneath the bark on an old Buckeye {^sculus californicd) stump. 

 In the present species the prothorax is widest at the junction of 

 "middle and anterior thirds, and should be placed with those 

 apterous species which have the antennae longer than the head 

 and prothorax, prothorax quadrate, with apex rounded. 



At one time the ravages of the Dermestes vulpinus were so great in 

 the skin warehouses of London, that a reward of ;^2o,ooo was offered for 

 an available remedy. — Baird's Cyclop. Nat. Sci., London, 1858. 



OvALLE states that, in the pampas of Chili, bread is made of Locusts 

 and of Mosquitos. — Cowati's Curious Facts. 



