320 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, ’12 
A new Tetropium, two new Bruchides, with brief 
notes on other Coleoptera. 
By H. C. Fatt, Pasadena, California. 
The following undescribed and very distinct species of 
Tetropium has recently been sent me by Mr. Ralph Hopping 
of the Forestry Service in the Sequoia National Park of Cali- 
fornia, with the statement that it is very destructive to both 
white and red fir (Abies concolor and A. magnifica.) Mr. 
Hopping requests that it be given a name in order that he 
may better refer to it in a forthcoming report. 
Tetropium abietis n. sp. 
Dark brown varying to pale brown, but concolorous throughout. 
Head and prothorax shining and not densely pubescent, the former 
numerously simply punctate with distinct median sulcus, the latter 
quite strongly granulate punctate, and with a strongly marked sub- 
oval impression, which is narrowly smooth and slightly elevated at 
middle posteriorly. Elytra obviously wider than the prothorax, parallel 
or slightly narrowed posteriorly, with the usual fine and short ap- 
pressed pubescence; luster dull, the discal raised lines distinct but 
fine; sculpture exceedingly’ fine, subgranulose or asperate punctate. 
Beneath shining, finely punctate, and with longer sparser pubescence. 
Length, 13—17 mm.; width, 3.5—4.5 mm. 
Male: Antennae about five-sixths as long as the body, slender, all 
joints linear or nearly so, second slightly gradually wider apically, 
twice as long as wide; third nearly or quite twice as long as the 
second and more than four times as long as wide. Prothorax varying 
from distinctly transverse to barely perceptibly so, subangularly 
rounded at or a little in advance of the middle; femora stout; pygidium 
obliquely narrowed behind, the apex rather broadly truncate. 
Female: Antenne scarcely longer than half the body, a little more 
slender than in the male but similarly formed; prothorax with sides 
more evenly rounded; femora less stout; pygidium with apex broadly 
evenly rounded in nearly circular arc. 
Described from a series of a dozen specimens taken at 
Huckleberry Meadow, Fresno Co., California, all bearing date 
July 19, t910. This is the most strongly characterized Tetro- 
pium in our fauna, and at once distinguished from all others 
by its granulose sculpture and the strong oval prothorac im- 
pression, the latter somewhat suggestive of Nothorina. 
Bruchus julianus Horn. 
This species was described in 1894 from San Julio and San 
Ignacio, Texas. Later, larger specimens from Brownsville 
were held to be identical and so distributed, and upon these 
