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N. attenuatum n. sp. Form very narrow, attenuated, cylindrical, 

 moderately shining, black with slight bluish lustre to upper sur- 

 face; an oblique patch extending inwards from the humeri, the 

 antennae and tarsi rufous. Antennae extending backwards just 

 beyond margin of head, first joint moderate in size, joints 2-8 

 small and short, gradually wider externally and subequal in length 

 to club, club robust and over twice as wide as eighth joint. Head 

 elongate, about twice as long as wide, 'slightly divergent forwards 

 to eyes where wider than either thorax or elytra ; eyes moderate 

 in size, rather flat and placed anterior to middle. Epistoma deeply 

 triangularly emarginate and impressed, front with a longitudinal 

 impressed line; surface rather finely punctured with elongated 

 punctures anteriorly and with coarse sparser and rounder punc- 

 tures posteriorly. Prothorax subequal in length to head, narrower 

 posteriorly than elytra, gradually divergent forwards to head 

 where of same breadth as base of head and elytra, base broadly 

 arcuate and apex truncate, disc evenly convex, sparsely and finely 

 punctured, more finely than on head, side margin fine. Elytra 

 about as wide as apex of prothorax, over three times as long as 

 wide and slightly longer than head and prothorax together ; punc- 

 tuation fine and sparse and with tendency to serial arrangement 

 only near suture ; disc without trace of striae, a short rather deep 

 linear impression without suture on apical depression. Head 

 beneath and prosternum with a few coarse punctures, meta- 

 sternum and abdomen finely and sparsely punctulate. 



Length 4 mm., breadth, .75 mm. 



Type in my own collection. Paratype sent to U. S. National 

 Museum. 



Described from a small series, collected by myself and beaten 

 from dead boughs of Monterey Pine (Pinus radiata Don.) at 

 Carmel, Cal., May 19, 1913. A few other specimens have since 

 been secured by my friend, L. S. Slevin, at the same place. This 

 species varies from .5 mm. smaller to .5 mm. longer than type. 



It is related to N. fissiceps Fall but can be readily separated by 

 its smaller size, more attenuated form, and by the fact that the 

 thorax, femur and tibiae are black whereas they are rufous in the 

 other. 



