ClCINDELID.-E AND CARABID/E 11$ 



moderate. Length (cf 9 ) 10.7-13.0 mm.; width 3.4-4.5 mm. 

 California (Humboldt Co. to Monterey). Very abundant about 

 San Francisco Bay vicinus Mann. 



12 Lustre shining, the elytra alutaceous and generally darker than the 

 anterior parts, the legs and under surface dark testaceous; head 

 nearly as in the preceding species; prothorax strongly rounded at 

 the sides, the latter becoming rather rapidly and strongly convergent 

 basally and almost straight, not in the least sinuate toward the angles, 

 which are minutely, denticularly prominent; base broadly sinuate, 

 except laterally, where the margin is fine, only a little more than 

 three-fourths the maximum width; surface moderately convex and 

 margined laterally, the inner concavity in the form of a broad and 

 very shallow impression, not at all sharp along the bottom, thence 

 to the sides flat, the outer obsolete; elytra decidedly short, a little 

 less than one-half longer than wide, just visibly (cf) to fully a third 

 ( 9 ) wider than the prothorax the female much smaller and less 

 parallel than the male, oblong-oval, with broadly arcuate sides 

 and obtusely rounded apex; striae very fine, impunctate, feebly im- 

 pressed, the intervals nearly flat, feebly convex laterad; legs rather 

 short, the hind tibiae (cf ) very feebly and obtusely crenulate within, 

 the tarsi rather stout, with the first joint nearly as long as the next 

 two. Length (cf 9 ) 8.8-11.7 mm.; width 3.2-4.3 mm. California 

 (Sta. Barbara, Dunn and also from an unrecorded locality in the 

 Levette collection). Abundant miscellus n. sp. 



13 Elytral striae fine and impunctate but deep, the intervals broadly 

 convex, rather strongly so laterad. Body in the female stouter 

 than any other of this group, the male much less stout, shining, 

 the elytra (cf) rather shining, only feebly alutaceous, or (9) 

 opaque and with the micro-reticulation stronger; head moderate, 

 nearly as in vicinus; antennae pale, the four basal joints piceous; 

 prothorax a fourth wider than long, strongly rounded at the sides 

 almost throughout the length, rapidly converging basally and very 

 briefly and feebly sinuate at the slightly prominent angles; surface 

 nearly as in humboldti; elytra oblong-oval, a little more than one- 

 half longer than wide, with broadly arcuate sides and evenly rounded 

 and not very obtuse apex, more than a fourth wider than the pro- 

 thorax, two-fifths (9), the stria? fine but deeply groove-like, im- 

 punctate, the humeral denticle subobsolete; hind tarsi rather slender. 

 Length (cf 9 ) 13.0-14.3 mm.; width 4.6-5.3 mm. California 

 (Humboldt Co.) and southern Oregon. Six males and nine females. 



bucolicus n. sp. 



Elytral striae very fine, impunctate and not deep, nearly as in vicimis . . 14 



14 Moderately slender, rather convex, shining, deep black, the elytra 

 subopaque in both sexes ; head moderate, the linear impressions rather 

 deep but fine, the antennae pale, gradually piceous basally; prothorax 

 only moderately convex, the sides broadly rounded, gradually 

 feebly converging toward base and broadly, just visibly sinuate, the 

 angles very slightly and obtusely prominent; base five-sixths the 

 maximum width, rectilinearly truncate, margined laterad; surface 

 with moderate inner impressions, the surface externally thereto 



