680 Goleopterological Notices, VII. 



Hind femora finely serrulate, or with several small teeth beneath; elytra with 



a small central white tuft divided by the suture. 



Black, thinly pubescent with stiff erect hair centralis Lee. 



Pale brown, variegated with dusky; elytra with four black spots, pubescent 



with erect hair; hind legs dark tardipes Lee. 



Smaller, brown, variegated with dusky; elytra with a more elongate white 



sutural spot; hind legs brown fulTipes Lee. 



The last two species of the table are unknown to me in 

 nature. The new species defined in the table are described below 

 in order. 



T. spinipes. — Form as in lecontei, smaller, black throughout, except the 

 tip of the elytra, which is red ; antennae and four anterior legs pale flavo-testa- 

 ceous; basal half of the hind femora above and distal extremity of the cor- 

 responding tarsi pale rufous; beak rufous at tip; upper surface thinly clothed 

 with gray-white, subdecumbent pubescence, which becomes moderately dense 

 toward the sides of the prothorax and in a transverse line expanded at the 

 suture across the middle of the elytra, the expanded part — corresponding with 

 the subsutural tufts of lecontei — being but slightly denser ; discal tufts minute 

 and situated behind the pubescent band; body beneath densely clothed with 

 white pubescence anteriorly, the abdomen very sparsely pubescent. Length 

 2.1 mm. ; width 1.75 mm. 



New Jersey. Mr. Jtilich. 



Allied to lecontei, but much smaller and less pubescent above, 

 with the hind tibise much narrower, less bent and only feebly un- 

 dulated along the external edge. As in lecontei, the white hairs of 

 the body and legs are very composite, consisting of three to 

 seven hairs split from a very short common foot-stalk. 



T. gracilipes. — Form as in centralis, the surface shining, black, the elytral 

 suture narrowly and feebly, and a straight transverse band slightly broader 

 toward the suture and situated just before the middle, testaceous; antennae, 

 tip of beak and four anterior legs pale testaceous; hind legs deep black 

 throughout,- the tarsi piceous ; pubescence sparse, with a number of long erect 

 setse on the elytra and some longer whitish hairs on the suture toward tip, the 

 small central white tuft divided by the suture situated near basal fourth of 

 the elytral suture as usual; body sparsely pubescent beneath, except at the 

 sides anteriorly ; elytra with moderately impressed series of very coarse and 

 close-set punctures. Length 2.2 mm. ; width 1.5 mm. 



Ohio. 



The hind legs are verj' long and unusually slender throughout, 

 the femora with small teeth along the lower edge, two or three of 

 which become very long and spiniform ; the tibise are slender and 

 nearl}'- straight, the outer contour very broadlj^ and feebly arcuate 



