May, 'o6] entomological news. 165 



Plumas and Shasta Cos., Cal., but that these are now in the 

 Ulke collection. The Shasta specimen he thinks was taken on 

 yellow pine (Pimis ponderosa) . 



T. lecontei Gory. 



I learn from Dr. Skinner that there is a single example of 

 this species in the Horn collection, and from Mr. Blanchard 

 that the LeConte collection contains a single $ , the following 

 description of which he has kindly sent me. 



" Very much smaller and more parallel in form (than nimbosa), the 

 prothorax not at all expanded at sides. Front of head similar to the 

 last, the carina and impressions less strongly marked. Thorax some- 

 what quadrate, apex and base nearly equal in width, sides broadly feebly 

 arcuate, slightly sinuate behind, the angles arcuate ; margin slightly in- 

 ferior towards the front ; surface impressed similarly to the last, finely 

 and densely punctate except the convexity between the posterior im- 

 pressions, which is impunctate. Elytra somewhat flattened, substriate 

 near the suture, an irregular blackish subtransverse impression at an- 

 terior fourth, from outside the middle to the suture, a smaller more 

 rounded one iust behind the middle, distant from the suture, and a still 

 smaller oblique one behind the last at posterior third ; surface finely 

 rugose and closely punctate, deeply impressed behind the humeri next 

 to the margin ; dull bronze varied with coppery. Prosternum feebly im- 

 pressed, flat, abruptly tumid in front as in the other species ; coarsely, 

 densely, more or less asperately punctate, as is also the meso- and meta- 

 sternum ; abdomen finely, sparsely punctured and pubescent. Punctures 

 of elytra bearing depressed inconspicuous scale-like hairs ; sides of pro- 

 thorax more abundantly hairy, especially behind ; similar hairs beneath 

 anteriorly and at sides, finer more hair like on the abdomen. Last ven- 

 tral truncate and narrowly smooth and depressed at apex. Front and 

 tibiae slightly arcuate and asperate within, but less regularly and dis- 

 tinctly so than in opulenta. Length, 9 mm.; width, 3.2 mm. 



Hab. — Georgia (LeConte Coll.); Louisiana (Horn Coll.). 

 The more obvious diagnostic characters of our four species 

 are expressed in the following table : 



Green ; first ventral segment very densely punctate. 



Upper surface verv densely punctate, side margin (lateral 

 crest) of prothorax moderately angulate. (California to 



Washington) opulenta. 



Upper surface less densely, more coarsely punctate ; side 

 margin of prothorax strongly angulate (New Mexico ; Mexi- 

 co? New Orleans??) blondeli. 



