Coleopterological Notices, IV. 413 



Vestiture finely and feebly variegated in color, and with a large sutural 



spot of white imbricated scales behind the scutellum...ll variegatllS 



Vestiture nearly uniform in color, the scales of the upper surface all narrow 



and elongate, the squamules borne by the strial punctures similar to 



the others or very nearly as wide. 



Elytral intervals each with a single nearly even series of narrow scales, 



fulvous to white in color 12 simplex 



Elytral intervals confusedly clothed with scales throughout their width. 

 Elytral scales evenly but not very densely distributed, narrow and 

 slender, ochreous-yellow in color, the middle scales of each interval 



semi-erect, especially toward apex 13 sibinioides 



Elytral scales broader and more closely recumbent, denser along the 



suture, more broadly so behind the middle 14 mica 



Elytra with stiff straight and strongly hispid erect or inclined setae. 



Elytra with large rounded or oval whitish scales, unevenly distributed. 



Elytral setae long and rather slender 15 setosils 



Elytral setae short, broad and scale-like 16 subfasciatus 



Elytra with long slender white and fulvous decumbent squamules, entirely 

 without rounded scales ; erect setae rather fine and much more numerous. 



17 liispidus 



The species of groups I and IV are generally taken in abundance 

 when discovered, while those of II and III are apparently much 

 less plentiful in individuals, or possibly less gregarious; they are 

 also a little more closely allied among themselves, forming a more 

 difficult study. 



I 

 1 T. lineellUS Lee— Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 217. 



Broadly oval, strongly convex, rather densely clothed above with 

 long, slender, coarsely strigose scales, which are variable in color, 

 and, to some extent also, in distribution ; in the best marked speci- 

 mens they are subcupreous in two broad pronotal vittae, and on the 

 alternate intervals of the elytra, elsewhere "cinereous, but often 

 cinereous throughout; on the under surface they are whitish, 

 broader, non-strigose and feathery in structure. The male has the 

 beak short, abruptly tapering beyond the antennas, and the ante- 

 rior tibiae strongly, acutely toothed internally just beyond the 

 middle; in the female the beak is longer, nearly straight, slender 

 but abruptly thicker very near the base. Length 3.7-4.7 mm.; 

 width 1.7-2.2 mm. 



California (Siskiyou to San Diego). This is a common species 

 throughout the State. 



