POGONIN^E 399 



very oblique at each side, the angles right and sharp, the nick dis- 

 tinct; impressions very feeble and diffuse, the posterior feebly punc- 

 tulate medially; median stria deep, biabbreviated, not deeper be- 

 hind; elytra three-fifths longer than wide, parallel and with nearly 

 straight sides, rounding basally, the margin incurvate at base for 

 a short distance, nearly one-half wider than the prothorax, somewhat 

 obtuse at tip, the sinus very feeble; surface subdeplanate laterally 

 at apex, as usual in the genus; striae fine, feebly impressed, not def- 

 initely punctate, the outer feeble, the ninth midway between the 

 eighth and margin; third tripunctate, the scutellar long as usual; 

 intervals very feebly convex. Male with the anterior tarsi rather 

 stouter and more convex than usual in the genus, the hind trochan- 

 ters acicularly narrowed and prolonged in apical half and almost as 

 long as the tibiae, two-fifths as long as the latter and simply pointed 

 in the female. Length ((^9) 10.5-13.2 mm.; width 4.0-4.7 mm. 

 California (Mendocino and Humboldt Cos.). Six specimens. 



latipennis n. sp. 



Mandibles notably longer and more prominent in both sexes 4 



4 Body smaller and more slender than in latipennis, similar in color and 

 in the rather dullish lustre; male more notably smaller than the fe- 

 male; head slightly narrower than the prothorax, the eyes more prom- 

 inent than usual in the genus; sulci long, very broad and deep, 

 slightly converging; antennae rather long, not so thick as in latipen- 

 nis; prothorax nearly similar throughout but smaller, with the sides 

 usually more distinctly sinuate basally; vestiges of a fine carina more 

 evident; elytra narrower though of nearly similar outline, structure 

 and striation, fully two-thirds longer than wide and nearly one-half 

 wider than the prothorax. Male with the anterior tarsi rather less 

 stout, the hind trochanters three-fourths as long as the tibiae, grad- 

 ually finely aciculate in less than apical half. Length (cf 9 ) 10.0- 

 12. o mm.; width 3.7-4.0 mm. California (Sonoma and Mendocino 



Cos.). [Pair, trochantericus Lee.] californicus Mots. 



Body nearly as in californicus but much larger, more elongate and larger 

 than in latipennis, similar in coloration and lustre; head and pro- 

 thorax larger than in the preceding, the former with less prominent 

 eyes and less constricted and much broader neck; antennae long, 

 more pallescent distally, the sulci similar; prothorax slightly though 

 evidently wider than long, as in the two preceding in general form 

 and structure, the short carina near the hind angles very feeble and 

 vestigial; minute nick before the hind angles distinct; elytra notably 

 elongate, fully three-fourths longer than wide, less than one-half 

 wider than the prothorax, similar to the two preceding in general 

 outline, striation and structure, the three punctures on the third 

 stria more broadly impressed, equidistant and widely separated as 

 usual; hind trochanters of the male gradually finely aciculate and 

 more or less contorted distally and almost as long as the tibiae; 

 in the female they are gradually sharply pointed and half as long as 

 the tibiae; anterior tarsi of the male notably stout basally. Length 

 (cf 9 ) 13.0-15.0 mm.; width 4.4-4.8 mm. California (south of San 

 Francisco) , Dunn incisus n. sp. 



