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than wide, only very little narrowed and broadly, feebly constricted 

 at apex, the sides only very slightly tumid before the middle; punc- 

 tures fine and unevenly sparse, the smooth median line broad; elytra 

 parallel, arcuately narrowing to the not very obtusely rounded apex 

 in about apical third, three-fourths longer than wide, one-half wider 

 than the prothorax, the punctures deep, everywhere equally and 

 rather widely separated, moderately coarse basally, smaller but 

 rather strong apically ; abdomen minutely, rather sparsely punctulate 

 and with short sparse and rather fine cinereous hairs. Length ( 9 ) 

 7.2 mm.; width 2.6 mm. California (San Francisco). 



francisca n. sp. 



12 Form oblong, only moderately stout, convex, shining, the vestiture 

 sparse but long, coarse and bristling; head with fine and close but 

 distinct punctures, the median line more sparsely punctate; eyes 

 only slightly prominent; antennae thick, black as usual; prothorax 

 distinctly shorter than wide, strongly, broadly constricted but only 

 slightly narrowed at apex, slighly tumid at the sides before the 

 middle, finely, loosely punctate, with the usual partial smooth line; 

 elytra parallel, rounding behind only in about apical fourth, three- 

 fourths longer than wide, fully twice as wide as the prothorax, rather 

 coarsely, deeply punctate, more finely apically, the punctures every- 

 where subequally and rather widely separated; abdomen distinctly 

 but not closely punctate. Length (9) 8.5 mm.; width 2.9 mm. 



California (San Francisco), Dunn californica Lee. 



A Slightly stouter and less elongate, with somewhat shorter vestiture, 

 more prominent eyes, shorter and broader prothorax, with rather 

 more sharply tumid sides before the middle and somewhat larger 

 and closer punctures, the elytra ( 9 ) barely two-thirds longer than 

 wide and nearly similar in the male, likewise parallel and very 

 obtusely rounded at tip, a little less than twice as wide as the 

 prothorax ( 9 ) but fully so (cf ), the punctures not quite so coarse 

 and rather less widely separated. Length (cf 9) 7.7-8.4 mm.; 



width 2.9-3.1 mm. California, Levette proxima n. subsp. 



Form similarly oblong but rather less convex and smaller in size, the 

 vestiture coarse but notably sparse; head small, convex, with small 

 but deep and slightly separated punctures, less punctate medially 

 only toward the antennal line, the eyes moderately prominent; 

 antennae thick and short; prothorax relatively larger, fully a third 

 wider than long, only moderately constricted and but slightly 

 narrowed at apex, the ante-median tumors rather abrupt and strong; 

 punctures small, sparse, irregularly distributed; elytra two-thirds 

 longer than wide, three-fourths wider than the prothorax, parallel, 

 gradually and arcuately narrowing in nearly apical two-fifths, the 

 apex not very obtuse; punctures moderate, deep and perforate, 

 separated by about twice their widths, becoming very fine and feeble 

 apically; abdomen picescent, minutely and loosely punctulate, the 

 fifth ventral longer than the fourth and rather narrowly rounded at 

 tip in the type, which has the antennae barely half as long as the body. 

 T. L. Casey, Mem. Col. IV, Oct. 1913. 



