62 Memoirs on the Coleoptera 



is a very feeble convexity of the surface, remindful of gaudens but 

 very much feebler; surface smooth, with a very minute feeble discal 

 indentation at each side just before the middle and near outer 

 fifth of the width ; elytra one-half longer than wide, not quite twice 

 as wide as the prothorax, slightly inflated posteriorly, broadly, 

 evenly rounding behind, the sinus short and barely traceable; striae 

 fine, feebly impressed and nearly smooth, very feeble externally; 

 intervals not quite fiat, the third with about five small punctures; 

 tarsi slender, the anterior very feebly dilated in the male. Length 

 {(^9) 5-65-5.75 mm.; width 2.1-2.2 mm. Vancouver Island 

 (Victoria) erasus Lee. 



Legs piceous-black, the trochanters not paler. Body somewhat broad, 

 moderately convex, highly polished and deep black throughout; 

 head barely longer than wide, fully four-fifths as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, the eyes large, moderately prominent, the front smooth; 

 anterior impressions short, shallow; antennae very slender, much 

 more than half as long as the body, black, the first joint piceous, 

 the third longer than the fourth; prothorax barely visibly wider 

 than long, widest before the middle, the sides broadly rounded, 

 becoming straight behind the middle, finely reflexed, a little more 

 so basally, the edge thickened internally at base through outer 

 fourth, the angles very obtuse, blunt; apex broadly sinuate, with 

 distinct angles, barely as wide as the base; transverse impressions 

 distinct, the median stria finely impressed; foveae broadly, feebly 

 concave; entire surface very smooth, with a few very fine and 

 extremely feeble rugulae; elytra oblong, two-fifths longer than wide, 

 twice as wide as the prothorax, rapidly rounding in scarcely apical 

 third, the margins extremely finely reflexed; apical oblique sinus 

 very feeble, sutural angles broadly rounded; striae extremely fine 

 and feebly, minutely subcomminuted, the first smoother and deeper; 

 intervals perfectly fiat, the third with four punctures; tarsi very 

 slender. Length (?) 6.4 mm.; width 2.6 mm. Washington 

 State (Wilbur), — Hyslop. Communicated by Mr. J. S. Wade. 



wadei n. sp. 



Legs piceous-black, the trochanters pale. Body similar in form and in 

 the deep black shining surface to erasus, narrower than in wadei, 

 not very convex; head much smaller, only three-fifths as wide as the 

 prothorax, rather rounded, not elongate, the eyes well developed 

 but less prominent than in erasus; anterior superciliary puncture 

 larger; impressions moderate; antennae black, with the basal joint 

 piceous, half as long as the body, the third joint distinctly longer 

 than the fourth and not equal thereto as in erasus; prothorax a 

 little shorter, between a third and fourth wider than long, the sides 

 more evenly rounded, scarcely becoming straight posteriorly, the 

 anterior angles more broadly rounded; basal angles very obtuse and 

 blunt, distinctly less definite than in erasus, the impressions nearly 

 similar; foveae less definitely linear and apparently interrupted, 

 forming two impressions in the type, feebly rugose; elytra narrower, 

 not subinfiated behind as in erasus, fully three-fifths longer than 

 wide, almost twice as wide as the prothorax; apical obliquity rather 



