410 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



California (San Diego). Mr. Chas. Fuchs. 



The three specimens in my cabinet are males, and the beak is 

 probably much longer and more evenly arcuate in the female. This 

 species somewhat resembles densus, but is smaller, narrower and 

 differs greatly in the form of the prothorax, as well as in the some- 

 what longer second joint of the antennal funicle. 



2 P. densus u. sp. — Robust, subcylindrical, convex, black, extremely 

 densely clothed with rather small, broadly oval, yellowish-white and uniform 

 scales, whieh are widely overlapping, granulose in texture and not strigose, 

 similar in structure and density on the under surface ; recurved setae distinct. 

 Head glabrous, finely, strongly reticulate ; constriction fine, deep ; beak in the 

 female slender, polished, exceedingly finely, remotely punctate, but thicker, 

 dull and rugosely punctate near the base, nearly evenly and quite strongly 

 arcuate, almost three-fifths as long as the elytra ; antenna? inserted scarcely 

 beyond basal third, rather long and slender, the second funicular joint about 

 as long as the next two ; club moderately robust, very sparsely pubescent 

 and shining toward base. Prothorax but slightly wider than long, the sides 

 parallel and very feebly arcuate in basal two-thirds, then moderately conver- 

 gent and broadly constricted to the apex, the latter rather more than two- 

 thirds as wide as the base ; disk moderately convex, evenly, densely squamose, 

 finely, very densely punctate throughout. Elytra at base but slightly more 

 than one-fourth wider than the prothorax, not quite two and one-half times 

 as long, one-half longer than wide, the sides parallel in basal three-fifths, 

 then narrowly angulato-parabolic ; striae indicated by fine but sharply defined 

 partings of the dense crust of scales. Legs somewhat stout, the tarsi long and 

 slender, the third joint only moderately dilated, the last joint long ; claws 

 long, divergent, connate at base. Length 2.5 mm. ; width 1.05 mm. 



Nebraska. 



Easily distinguishable by the dense and uniform crust of non- 

 strigose imbricated scales and the subcylindrical form, as well as by 

 the characters given in the table. 



3 P. Ill ill at US n. sp. — Moderately robust, convex, subcylindrical, black 

 throughout, extremely densely clothed with a crust of widely overlapping, 

 dark, yellowish-gray scales, uniform in color, very broad and excessively 

 minutely, indistinctly strigilate ; recurved setse fine but distinct. Head gla- 

 brous, minutely, feebly reticulate and rather strongly shining, the constriction 

 fine but moderately deep ; beak in the male thick, evenly cylindrical, distinctly 

 arcuate, moderately densely punctate, not quite as long as the head and pro- 

 thorax, with the antennae inserted just beyond the middle, in the female a 

 little more slender, evenly, distinctly arcuate, smooth and remotely punctulate 

 except near the base, scarcely visibly longer than the head and prothorax, 

 barely one-half as long as the elytra, with the antennae inserted at basal two- 

 fifths ; antenna? moderately slender, the second funicular joint as long as the 



