Goleopterological Notices, VII. 427 



California (San Bernardino Co.). Mr. H. C. Fall. 



The basal segment of the abdomen is simple and normal 

 -throughout, and the single tj^pe before me is a male, as shown by 

 the protruded tip of the copulator}'^ spicule, but there are no ex- 

 ternal sexual marks. 



The individual lenses of the eyes are very feeble and widely 

 separated posteriorly, but convex and subcontiguous anteriorly. 

 The gradually acutely conical apex of the eleventh antennal joint 

 is a peculiarity which I have not noticed elsewhere. 



37. C. anale Lee— Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1852, p. 153 (Scydmse- 

 nus). 



Rather narrowly suboval, polished and impunctate, dark rufo- 

 testaceous, the antennae concolorous and the legs rather paler; 

 pubescence abundant, suberect but rather short, coarse, pale, 

 mingled with longer remote setse and conspicuous on the elytra. 

 Head but slightly wider than long, subcircularly rounded behind, 

 the eyes rather small but convex ; antennal prominences almost 

 obsolete, the front scarcely impressed ; clypeus simple, evenly 

 rectilinear at apex. Antennae slender, about ^ as long as the body, 

 the club narrow, somewhat incrassate and but slightly abrupt; 

 second joint stout, obconic, f longer than wide ; three to six 

 equal in width; third not as long as wide; fourth quadrate; fifth 

 fully ^, and sixth just visibly, longer than wide ; seventh scarcel^^ 

 longer than the sixth and only just visibly wider, very slightly 

 elongate ; eighth f wider, a little longer than wide ; ninth and 

 tenth not distinctly wider, rather longer than wide and as long as 

 wide respectively ; eleventh rather stouter and obliquely pointed 

 but not quite as long as the two preceding. Prothorax rather 

 feebly conic, the apex about |- as wide as the base, which is not 

 more than ^ wider than the head ; surface without trace of basal 

 impression. Elytra f longer than wide, rather more than twice 

 as long as the prothorax and not more than | wider, oval, nar- 

 rowly parabolic at apex ; humeral plica short and narrow, the 

 impression small ; fovese small ; subsutural impressions obsolete, 

 the suture perfectl}' simple and not in the least beaded toward 

 base. Abdomen with the basal segment perfectly normal and un- 

 modified. Legs moderate, the femora rather strongly clavate; 

 tarsi slender and filiform. Length 1.15 mm.; width 0.48 mm. 



Louisiana and Texas (Austin). This species, together with 

 ventricosum and digressum, is quite aberrant, for, with the per- 



