676 Coleopterological Notices, VII. 



its finer elytral strise, and very small and narrow squamules of 

 the median parts of the pronotum and much more prominent sub- 

 apical umbones of the elytra. Three specimens. 



C. nutoilatus. — Elongate, suboval, convex, the integument completely 

 concealed by a dense crust of moderately large, widely overlapping scales, 

 which are in general dark coppery-brown in color above, becoming whitish in 

 irregular spots toward the sides and apex of the pronotum and especially at 

 base, also in the middle at base and dispersed in a rhombiform discal spot ; on 

 the elytra the pale scales are mingled with brown in a generally oblique area 

 embracing the base and extending to the suture at the middle, and in a less 

 oblique band behind the middle, which is interrupted at the suture ; under 

 surface and legs densely clothed with whitish scales, interspersed with viola- 

 ceous brown. Head and base of the beak densely clothed with whitish scales 

 speckled with brown, the eyes at lower third separated by less than }:^ of their 

 own width ; beak rather slender and elongate, glabrous and smooth beyond 

 the point of antennal insertion ; second joint of the funicle as long as the first 

 and much longer than the next two combined, the club well developed, rather 

 sparsely clothed with short hairs as usual. Prothorax nearly as long as wide, 

 widest and broadly rounded Just behind the middle, the sides gradually con- 

 vergent and straight or very feebly bisinuate thence to the apex, which is 

 broadly sinuate ; sculpture completely concealed, the scales feebly convex, 

 broadly overlapping and not impressed. Elytra fully }4 longer than wide, ^5 

 longer than the prothorax and }'^ wider, a distinct reentrant angle between 

 the sides of the prothorax and narrowly rounded humeri ; sides broadlj' arcu- 

 ate ; subapical umbones moderate ; strise concealed ; scaly crust of the inter- 

 vals slightly convex. Legs moderately slender. Length 3.25 mm. ; width 

 1.25 mm. 



California (Monterey). 



A single specimen was shaken from the blossoming branches of 

 Finns insignis,eav\y in February. This representative is without 

 doubt the female. 



C. miicidus. — Elongate-oval, convex, densely covered throughout with 

 a thick crust of overlapping scales, which, in general, are moderate in size and 

 broadly rounded in form, dark cupreous in color, but largely intermingled 

 with white beneath and on the legs, densely white also toward the base of the 

 pronotum sublaterally and at the middle, also feebly interspersed with white 

 on the disk, and, on the elytra, more largely white in an oblique area from the 

 humeri nearly, but not quite, to the suture before the middle, which area is 

 united by a longitudinal median region on each with a posterior, less oblique 

 and more fully white area from the sides to a little within the middle ; sub- 

 apical regions also speckled with white scales. Head clothed largely with 

 cupreous scales at the sides, the eyes at lower third separated by fully 14, of 

 their own width ; beak elongate, glabrous except at base, and deep black. 

 Prothorax nearly as long as wide, subconical, the sides feebly convergent and 



