Cohopterological Notices, III. 53 



California (San Diego Co.). Dr. F. E. Blaisdell. 



A single pair taken on the sea-beach at Coronado. 



In ovipennis the color is black, the size larger, the form much 

 more robust, the third antennal joint longer, the eyes smaller and 

 very much more convex and prominent, especially behind, and the 

 elytral punctures larger and stronger. 



EPITRAGUS Latr. 



E. TestitllS n. sp. — Rather broadly oval and convex, polished, with a 

 strong aeneous tinge ; pubescence mcderately dense, subrecumbent, pure white 

 in color and conspicuous, the hairs robust, pointed, rather long, arcuate and 

 more or less matted. Head coarsely, rather densely punctate laterally, sparsely 

 so toward the middle, the median lobe large, rounded ; supra-orbital ridges 

 obsolete ; antennae piceous, moderate in length. Prothorax two-fifths wider 

 than long, the sides moderately narrowed from base to apex, feebly arcuate, 

 the apex broadly emarginate, angles right, narrowly rounded and not at all 

 prominent ; base broadly, strongly bisinuate ; disk evenly convex, feebly bi- 

 impressed at base, rather coarsely, moderately densely punctured laterally, 

 the punctures becoming finer and sparser toward the middle, with a narrow 

 impunctate median line. Elytra two-thirds longer than wide, in the middle 

 one-third wider than the prothorax, at the broadly rounded humeri slightly 

 wider than the thoracic base ; sides feebly arcuate, oblique behind, the apex 

 narrowly rounded ; disk finely, sparsely punctate, with' irregular longitudinal 

 impunctate areas toward the suture, the punctures becoming dense laterally 

 and especially coarse, dense and rugulose near the margins toward apex, the 

 surface longitudinally swollen near the suture toward apex. Under surface 

 finely, rather sparsely punctate and distinctly pubescent. Mesosternum deeply 

 excavated. Length 12.0 mm. ; width 5.2 mm. 



Arizona. 



A single specimen from the Levette cabinet, which is probably a 

 male. The type appears to be analogous in general form to the 

 males of those species having the pronotum simple in both sexes, 

 and for the present it may be placed near pruinoms, being readily 

 distinguishable hj its robust form, bright metallic subseneous lustre 

 and long conspicuous white pubescence. 



The species of Epitragus within our boundaries may be identified 

 as follows : — 



Sides of the front angulate and refiexed ; prothorax much narrower than the 

 elytra, the humeri broadly exposed SllbmetallicilS 



Sides of the front not prominent or angulate ; median lobe large, rounded. 

 Pronotum simple in the male, more- or less bicarinate in the middle toward 

 apex in the female. 



