416 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



II. . 



5 T. sol taili n. sp. — Narrowly oblong-oval, moderately convex, black, the 

 antennae and tip of beak rufous ; vestiture complex, consisting, on the beak, 

 of slender semi-erect hispid squamules, recumbent behind an abrupt trans- 

 verse line at the posterior margin of the eyes ; on the pronotum, of slender 

 dark fulvous squamules, partly erect and hispid, mingled, in a narrow line 

 near the sides, with large whitish scales and with a broad median vitta, 

 entirely composed of broad white scales ; on the elytra of large dense imbri- 

 cated scales and semi-erect robust recurved setae, the latter disposed in single 

 lines, the strial setae also distinct ; on the under surface of large oval white 

 scales, generally concave along the middle, mingled with stout sparse setae on 

 the abdomen. Head densely clothed with recumbent fulvous scales behind 

 the transverse hispid line ; beak in the male stout, rapidly, finely acuminate, 

 nude beyond the antennae, nearly straight and scarcely as long as the pro- 

 thorax ; antennae inserted near apical third, the basal joint of the funicle not 

 quite as long as the next three, seventh much wider than the sixth. Pro- 

 thorax one-fourth wider than long, very slightly wider before the middle 

 than at base, the sides rounded convergent and distinctly constricted ante- 

 riorly, the apex nearly three-fifths as wide as the base ; punctures very dense, 

 entirely concealed. Elytra barely one-fourth wider and two and one-half 

 times longer than the prothorax, the sides becoming straight and parallel 

 toward base, obtusely rounded at apex. Posterior femora rather slender, 

 obtusely and feebly toothed. Length 2.6 mm. ; width 1.1 mm. 



Wyoming (Laramie). 



A rather narrow species, allied to hirtellus and differing in the 

 broad vitta of white scales along the middle of the pronotum, the 

 more elongate prothorax, shorter, much coarser semi-erect setae 

 above and on the abdomen, and in the generally narrower form of 

 the body. The single male was taken by Mr. Hugo Soltau. 



6 T. hirtellus Lee— Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 218. 



Oblong-oval, moderately convex, piceous, the antennae and tip of 

 beak rufous; vestiture complex, consisting of dark brownish-fulvous 

 narrow strigose squamules on the pronotum, largely replaced toward 

 the sides by oval pointed non-strigose scales, strongly imbricated 

 and not quite recumbent, again darker along the middle of the 

 flanks beneath, narrowly white along the median line, more 

 broadly toward base ; on the elytra the vestiture consists of mode- 

 rately large oval pointed pale brownish scales, strongly imbricated 

 throughout, rather smaller, still denser and more ochreous on the 

 sutural interval, the striae indicated by fine partings in the dense 

 crust, with the white hairs borne by the strial punctures distinct; 



