98 Coleopterological Notices, III. 



14 H. discrepans n. sp. — Elongate-elliptical, rather strongly convex ; 

 prothorax rather dull, the elytra polished ; body dark piceous-brown in color, 

 the legs scarcely paler, the abdomen and antennae paler and more rufescent ; 

 pubescence rather long, coarse, subrecumbent, pale, sparse and somewhat 

 conspicuous. Head coarsely and rather sparsely punctate, polished ; eyes 

 large, separated by two-fifths their width ; antennse somewhat slender, not 

 attenuate, two-fifths as long as the body, the joints very feebly obconical, 

 nearly twice as long as wide, the third subequal in length to the fourth but 

 much more slender. Prothorax nearly two-thirds wider than long, the apex 

 broadly arcuate, but slightly more than one-half as wide as the base, the latter 

 transverse, with the sinuations very small but distinct ; sides broadly rounded 

 and strongly convergent anteriorly, nearly straight and parallel in basal 

 two-fifths, the basal angles right and not at all rounded ; disk not noticeably 

 impressed, not very coarsely and extremely densely punctate, the punctures 

 closely crowded and the lustre dull. Elytra three and one-half times as long 

 as the prothorax, and, at the middle, but very slightly wider, gradually and 

 acutely ogival in more than apical third ; sides feebly arcuate and continuous 

 with those of the prothorax ; disk with fine, feebly impressed striae of rather 

 small but distinct punctures, the intervals finely and sparsely punctured. 

 Abdomen finely, sparsely punctate. Legs slender, normal. Length 5.5 mm. ; 

 width 2.1 mm. 



California. 



This is quite a distinct species, readily distinguishable by its 

 extremely densely crowded punctuation of the pronotum and cor- 

 respondingly sparse elytral punctures, also by its large eyes and 

 rather long pubescence. The fifth ventral segment is broadly feebly 

 impressed in the single specimen before me, which is probably a 

 male. 



15 H. gran dicol lis Champ. — Biol. Cent.-Amer., Coleopt., IV, Pt. i, 

 p. 429. — Oblong-oval, strongly convex, rather pale piceous-brown throughout, 

 the under surface, legs and antennae but slightly paler ; lustre rather dull 

 and alutaceous ; pubescence short, rather fine, pale, moderately dense. Head 

 somewhat densely punctured, the eyes in the male large and separated by 

 one-fourth or one-fifth of their width ; antennae rather slender, two-fifths as 

 long as the body, not at all attenuate, joints three to eleven equal in length, 

 somewhat distinctly obconical and rather more than twice as long as wide. 

 Prothorax nearly two-thirds wider than long, the apex broadly, rather strongly 

 arcuate and almost continuous in curvature with the sides, the latter broadly, 

 strongly arcuate, becoming slightly convergent and feebly arcuate toward 

 base, the angles slightly obtuse but not rounded ; base transverse, the sinua- 

 tion at each side of the middle rather narrow but strong ; disk not distinctly 

 impressed, finely, very densely punctate and dull, the punctures rounded 

 and deep near their anterior margins, shallow and evanescent posteriorly, the 

 interspaces very minutely and strongly granulato-reticulate. Elytra three 



