Mar., '06] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 75 



ments — tf. Length, 2.5 mm.; width, 1.0 mm. $. Length, 3.0 mm.: 

 width, r.3 mm. 



Hab. — San Diego, California. 



This species, although related to hudsonicus, differs from it 

 and also from obtusus sufficiently by the coarse punctuation, 

 and from expansus by the more convex form and coarser pro- 

 notal punctuation. 



The male has the fifth ventral rather broadly arcuato-trun- 

 cate, and the female has the fifth ventral slightly lobed at 

 middle, the sides appear slightly sinuate from being rather 

 strongly reflexed while the middle is subhorizontal and just 

 slightly deflexed. 



Described from a $ and 9 , a small series all together, that 

 was not taken at a high altitude. One of the type specimens 

 was examined by Casey and bears his label n. sp. 



Dasytes shastensis sp. nov. — Stout, oblong, black, moderately convex, 

 feebly shining, lustre slightly dull and feebly virido-aeneous, antennae, 

 tibiae and tarsi frequently picescent ; pubescence sparse, moderate in 

 length, consisting of rather decumbent luteo-cinerous hairs intermingled 

 with moderately long blackish stiff hairs, which are erect and bristling on 

 head and pronotum and slightly backwardly directed on the elytra. 

 Head, evidently transverse, a little wider than the prothoracic apex, 

 interocular region rather broad, not impressed and very feebly convex, 

 quite evenly and rather closely punctate, punctures small ; eyes rather 

 prominent and somewhat coarsely facetted ; antennae slender and filiform 

 and reaching about to base of the prothorax, third joint slender, obconico- 

 cylindrical and about twice as long as wide, eleventh ovate, laterally com- 

 pressed and somewhat pointed at tip. Prothorax about one-third wider 

 than long, widest a short distance behind the middle ; disc quite strongly 

 convex ; less so antero-posteriorly, punctate, the punctures small, distinct- 

 ly defined and separated by a distance equal to twice or at least their own 

 diameter, interspaces flat and rather smooth, submarginal line strong and 

 entire, submarginal area reto-rugose ; sides quite evenly arcuate, feebly 

 convergent anteriorly, with edges finely and irregularly subserrulate ; 

 apical margin slightly arcuate in circular arc ; base moderately arcuate 

 and feebly sinuate laterally at submarginal area and a little wider than 

 the apex ; apical angles rounded ; basal angles broadly rounded and 

 continuing the sides into the base. Elytra rather broad, distinctly less 

 than twice as long as wide, and slightly widened posteriorly ; base 

 slightly wider than the prothorax ; humeri scarcely tumid ; sides feebly 

 arcuate and subparallel ; apex obtusely parabolic, sutural angles very 

 narrowly rounded ; disc moderately convex, punctate, the punctures 



