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that the statement that the third interval is impunctate is clearly a 

 misprint for unipunctate. The same mistake occurs in the original 

 description of confusus, which, from the published characters and 

 the note of its abundance at San Francisco, must be identical with 

 californicus, in which I have seen no instance in a large series 

 where the discal puncture is wanting. In fact the single discal 

 elytral puncture is an extremely constant feature throughout the 

 genus. In lodingi, which is unknown to me in nature, this important 

 puncture is however said to be wanting; that species is aberrant 

 also in its great size of body. 



Xestonotus Lee. 



Some question has been raised as to the propriety of maintaining 

 this genus distinct from Anisodactylus, and in reality it is very 

 closely allied, but there is a rather radical departure in the form of 

 the ligula, which, considering the very minute punctiform frontal 

 fovese, which are exactly as in Harpalus, complete absence of the 

 rufous spot on the vertex, another harpaloid character, broadly 

 rounded basal angles of the prothorax and very posterior posicion 

 of the discal elytral puncture, would seem to warrant its retention, 

 at any rate as not less than a very well marked subgenus of Aniso- 

 dactylus. The only known species is the following: 



Body oblong, stout, moderately convex, deep black and shining, the 

 elytra (cf) feebly or ( 9 ) strongly alutaceous; under surface and 

 legs throughout deep black; head rather large, two-thirds as wide 

 as the prothorax, the eyes very moderate, not very prominent; 

 antennae slender, piceous, the basal joint pale; surface very smooth, 

 the epistomal suture excessively feeble, sometimes obsolescent; ligula 

 slender, not at all enlarged at apex, the paraglossae fully as long or 

 somewhat longer and very obtuse at tip; prothorax short, one-half 

 to three-fifths (9) wider than long, the sides parallel, evenly and 

 rather strongly arcuate; apex broadly and very deeply sinuate, with 

 advanced though rounded angles and only a little narrower than 

 the base, which is transverse, rounding laterally toward the very 

 broadly rounded angles; surface very finely reflexed at the sides in 

 about apical half, the gutter broadening, becoming feeble and dis- 

 appearing at basal two-fifths on the large latero-basal, finely but 

 densely punctate flattened area, the foveae large, very broad and 

 shallow, with some coarser punctures in addition to the finer; re- 

 mainder of the disk impunctate, the stria fine, entire and distinct; 

 elytra two-fifths longer than wide, parallel, obtusely rounded at 

 apex, barely visibly wider than the prothorax, the sides feebly 



T. L. Casey, Mem. Col. V, Oct. 1914. 



