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emarginate and impressed, front with a longitudinal impressed line; sur- 

 face rather coarsely and regularly punctured, the punctures at least their 

 own width apart. Prothorax subequal in length to head, narrower poste- 

 riorly than elytra, gradually divergent forwards two thirds of way to 

 head, thence parallel, at apex as broad as base of head and but slightly 

 less than width of elytra, disc evenly convex, punctured similarly to head, 

 side margin fine. Elytra about two and a half times as long as wide and 

 somewhat longer than head and thorax together, punctured similarly to 

 head and thorax, without tendency to serial arrangement, disc without 

 trace of striae, a short rather deep linear impression without suture on 

 apical depression. Head and prothorax beneath coarsely and sparsely 

 punctured, gula transversely wrinkled, metasternum and abdomen sparsely 

 and finely punctured. 



Length 4.5 mm., breadth i mm. 



Type: A female in my own collection. 



The description is based upon a single specimen collected at 

 Ashland, Oregon, May 5, 1915, by Mr. G. H. Champion and 

 kindly presented by him. One other specimen which is undoubt- 

 edly the same species has been seen and compared. This latter 

 was collected on cedar, Libocedrus decurrens Torr., in the bur- 

 rows of a species of Phlceosinus, on the Klamath river near 

 Hamburg, Siskiyou County, California, March 15, 1916, by Mr. 

 Ralph Hopping. It is of the same size, shape and color as the 

 type, but differs in a few minor ways, such as having the two 

 projecting portions of the epistoma more prolonged and slightly 

 everted at the apex and in having the punctuation of the thorax 

 somewhat finer and that of the elytra much finer, especially 

 toward the apex. The epistomal character is no doubt sexual, 

 this specimen being a male. 



This species in size and general shape simulates N. fissiceps 

 Fall, but it differs from that not only in having a black prothorax 

 but in being definitely and generally punctured. It simulates 

 N. attenuatum Van Dyke in regard to color, but differs in being 

 much more robust and in being decidedly punctured. It should 

 appear in my table between fissiceps Fall and attenuatum Van 

 Dyke. 



Grynocharis expansa n. sp. Form elliptical, depressed, moderately shin- 

 ing, rufous, with sparse clothing of short, depressed, yellow hair. An- 

 tennae reaching backwards about to middle of thorax, first joint moderate 

 in size, bulbous, and with outer anterior part angular, second smaller and 



