Memoirs on the coleoptera

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MEMOIRS ON THE COLEOPTERA
mm.; width 2.8 mm. Vancouver Island and British Columbia
(Goldstream). [Pedilophorns oblongus Lee., Report Survey 1857,
p. 39] oblongus Lee.
Form nearly similar, the upper surface rather more convex, strongly
shining, with brilliant metallic-green lustre, black beneath, the
tarsi pieeous; pubescence of the upper surface notably longer, coarser,
closer and more persistent than in oblongus and becoming somewhat
bristling toward apex, rather coarse, close and pale yellowishcinereous
beneath; head nearly as in the preceding; prothorax less
transverse, barely twice as wide as long, the sides and angles nearly
similar, the base more angulate medially; punctuation nearly
similar, the vestiture closer and coarser; scutellum similar; elytra
fully a third longer
rather less broadly
than wide, the sides rather arcuate, the apex
rounded than in oblongus, the width at the
middle more evidently exceeding that of the prothorax, the punctures
nearly similar and well separated but finer; under surface similarly
very densely sculptured. Length 4.6 mm. width ; 2.65 mm. British
Columbia (Vernon), Venables insulsus n. sp.
3 Outline and convexity as in oblongus, shining, rather obscure aeneous
in lustre above, wholly black, with feeble pieeous [tinge beneath,
the tarsi not paler; pubescence of the upper surface rather short,
fulvous, plentiful and rather persistent, intermixed with numerous
erect and bristling hairs laterally and toward tip, the erect hairs
rather more cinereous or silvery; hairs of the under surface much
shorter, more even and dense; head evenly convex as in the two
preceding but with the punctures finer; prothorax distinctly more
than twice as wide as long, the sides more strongly converging from
base to apex, feebly arcuate, the punctures rather fine, distinctly
separated but closer than in the two preceding; elytra as in oblongus,
very obtusely rounded behind, the puncture? like those of the pronotum
but rather stronger, closer than in the two preceding; abdomen
equally densely and somewhat more finely punctured.
Length 4.0 mm.; width 2.3 mm. Montana (Kalispell), Wickham.
[Pedilophorns subsetosus Fall, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., 1907, p. 224].
subsetosus Fall
Besides the above, the four following species have been described
as follows:
Oval, convex, obliquely attenuate anteriorly, obtuse posteriorly, dark
greenish-bronzed above, uniformly but not closely punctured and
clothed with coarse white hairs; prothorax twice as wide as long,
strongly narrowed in front, the sides oblique and scarcely rounded;
scutellum clothed with white hair; elytra oval, wider than the prothorax,
obtusely rounded behind; under surface pieeous, densely
punctured, covered with brownish-gray pubescence; tarsi not lobed
beneath. Length 4.2 mm. Nebraska. [Pedilophorns ccneolus Lee.,
-Sm. Misc. Coll., 167, 1863, p. 74] aeneolus Lee.
Oblong, blackish, feebly shining, with faint aeneous tinge, the pubescence
pale, recumbent and moderately coarse; head deeply and densely,
rather coarsely punctured, the front with a distinct median fovea,