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able; dark setae extremely short, robust, and rather sparse. Elytra 

 about three-fourths longer than wide, nearly two-thirds wider than the 

 prothorax; sides in basal two-thirds parallel and very feebly arcuate, 

 thence convergent and narrowly rounded at apex; disk finely striate; 

 strisB with small, not very close, rather indistinct punctures; intervals 

 very feebly convex, slightly unequal; dark setae very small, short; 

 robust, and sparse, aggregated occasionally in dense clusters on the 

 alternate intervals, there being rarely more than one or two on each 

 interval; white setae very sparse, rather slender and more than twice as 

 long as the darker ones. Abdomen broadly convex; first suture 

 broadly, feebly angulate throughout its width, the apex of the angle 

 rounded; second segment in the middle slightly shorter than the next 

 two together. Length 4.8 mm. 



California (San Francisco 1). 



This specimen, which agrees well with the original type, is 

 probably a male, as there is a small, partially denuded spot near 

 the apex of the last ventral segment. 



S. osculans n. sp. — Rather slender; scales rather large, deeply and 

 strongly strigose, dark plumbeous-gray, slightly paler at the sides of the 

 prothorax, but not in the middle; abdomen more sparsely squamose, 

 setose. Head and beak rather wide and robust, flat, densely punctate, 

 rather sparsely squamose, and with many short, robust, bristUng setae; 

 apex of beak not at all squamose, sparsely setose; median furrow fine 

 and distinct; eyes Jarge, moderately convex; antennae moderate, dark 

 rufous; first joint of funicle rather slender and nearly as long as the 

 next three together, second very slightly longer than the third, third and 

 fourth equal, very slightly longer than wide. Prothorax two-fifths 

 wider than long, widest in the middle, where the sides are inflated and 

 strongly subangularly arcuate, very feebly and flnely constricted on 

 the sides just behind the apex, nearly straight toward base ; apex and 

 base subequal, very broadly and feebly arcuate; disk convex; median 

 vitta very feeble and not distinct; surface densely punctate; dark setae 

 pale-brown, rather long and slender and rather conspicuous. Elytra, 

 three-fourths longer than wide; sides parallel and nearly straight in 

 basal two-thirds, thence rapidly and parabolically rounded at apex; 

 base broadly, strongly emarginate ; disk convex, about one-half wider 

 than the prothorax, finely, feebly striate; punctures rather coarse, 

 feeble, and indistinct; intervals subequal, nearly flat; dark setae pale 

 brown, rather long moderately robust, very abundant and conspicuous, 

 especially on the alternate intervals; white setae very sparse and rather 

 short, about one-half longer than the dark ones.; Abdomen broadly con- 

 vex; first suture broadly, rather strongly arcuate in the middle. Length 

 4.3 mm. 



California (Hoopa Valley, Humboldt Co. 2). 



