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elevated toward base. Legs long and slender, the femora moder- 

 ately clavate, the anterior not distinctly more strongly. Length 

 1.1 mm.; width 0.5 mm. 



California (Marin and San Francisco Cos.). The male second- 

 ary characters of this species differ conspicuously from those of 

 the allied but much larger pacificus, the hind trochanters being 

 perfectly simple and the posterior tibiae less flattened internally 

 toward tip. In the male of fuehsi the sixth ventral is narrowly 

 rounded at tip, flat at base, becoming upwardly declivous at basal 

 |- along a broadly angulate transverse line, the basal parts of the 

 ascending portion finely punctulate, the last two segments equal- 

 ling the preceding four in length ; the anterior tibiae become 

 slender and slightly sigmoid distally, and are finely prominent 

 and with a cluster of bristles within at apex ; the middle tibiae 

 are slender, broadly bent inward distally, and have a long slender 

 internal process at tip. The dorsal pygidium is slightly exposed 

 behind the elytra and is circularl}^ rounded. The female has the 

 elytra a little less elongate, the prothorax relatively somewhat 

 larger and the head smaller, the antennae differing very little. 



14. S. pulbipennis n. sp.^Eather stout and ventricose, polished, the 

 elytra subimpunctate ; body black throughout, the elytra scarcely visibly pi- 

 cescent in strong light; legs and antennae pale, rufo-testaceous; pubescence 

 abundant, shorter and less distinct anteriorly, very long erect pale and ex- 

 tremely conspicuous on the elytra. Head but slightly wider than long, greatly 

 narrowed before the eyes, which are large, subbasal and extremely convex and 

 prominent; tempora very short and transversely rounded to the neck ; vertex 

 transversely impressed from side to side; labrum blackish. Antennae long and 

 very slender, gradually and feebly incrassate from near the base, almost % as 

 long as the body; second joint only slightly shorter but much narrower than 

 the first, obconic, % longer than wide, 3^ longer than the third and distinctly 

 thicker; third and fourth subequal, nearly 3^ longer than wide; fifth longer, 

 % longer than wide; three to five subequal in width and cylindric; sixth 

 shorter and nearly }^ thicker, more oval, about % longer than wide; six to ten 

 increasing slowly and with perfect regularity in width ; seventh slightly elong- 

 ate; eighth as wide as long; ninth and tenth feebly obtrapezoidal, onlyslightly 

 wider than long; eleventh fully as wide as the tenth, much shorter than the 

 two preceding, obtusely parabolic and slightly oblique at apex. Prothorax 

 nearly as long as wide, almost }4 wider than the head, strongly dilated and 

 narrowly rounded at the sides at apical third, constricted near basal third ; apex 

 truncate and only slightly more than '% as wide as the base; surface trans- 

 versely impressed near the base, the flanks bifoveate within the constriction. 

 Scutellum rather large, very distinct, equilatero-triangular. Elytra moderate 

 in size, % longer than wide, 2% times as long as the prothorax and fully % 



