Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis (Volume 16)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1906 Excerpt: ... and close-set, the upper part of the flanks broadly impunctate except at the middle; abdomen subequal in width to the elytra, parallel, somewhat finely and closely punctured, more coarsely in the impressions, a rather wide median line on segments two to five impunctate except at base; vestiture throughout coarse but sparse and not very conspicuous. Length 5.0 mm.; width 1.35mm. California (Monterey Bay). tibialis n. sp. Form only moderately stout, parallel, the prothorax but slightly wider than long; integuments shining, the pronotum with minute and indistinct punctulation as usual 3 3--Body black, the legs and antennae dark piceo-rufous, the elytra very faintly picescent; head rather smaller than in the preceding, barely half as wide as the prothorax, having similar very c-arse punctures aggregated in a transverse, medially interrupted line near the base, with one or two at each side of the middle anteriorly, the antennae nearly similar; prothorax barely a fourth wider than long, the sides distinctly converging from base to apex but only very feebly arcuate, the punctures coarse and closely aggregated in the deep narrow sulci, the surface geuerally aiso having a sparsely placed series near the side margins, two or three in the middle at lateral fifth and a cluster of three or four at lateral fourth near the base; elytra at the sides only slightly, though distinctly, longer than the sides of the prothorax, the suture three-fourths as long as the median line, the punctures very coarse and close-set, rugose as usual, the upper part of the flanks with a small impunctate spot posteriorly; abdomen punctured nearly as in tibialis, the median smooth line generally less wide and frequently feebly defined; pubescence throughout coarse but sparse, rather pale bu...