190 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOCWST 



at Kaslo, B. C, and probably elsewhere in the interior. The type 

 is from Pinus vwnlicola, Quathiaski (\ii\e, B. C. 



The size varies moderateh'. from 5 mm. to 5.7 mm. in length; 

 the colour, from dark reddish to black; the punctuation from 

 coarse to moderate in size. The type is in the collection of the 

 Entomological Branch, Ottawa. 



Leperisinus calif ornicus, n. sp. 



This species is allied to aculeatus Say, of the same size and 

 shape, with the \ellow-gre\ markings very distinct. 



Description of the female — Length, 2.5 mm.; colour, black, with 

 the apex of the pronotum, the base of the elytra, the scape and 

 fimicle of the antennjc and the legs red, and the pronotum and 

 eKlra distinctly marked with areas of \ellow-grey scales. The 

 head has the front broadK- moderately concave in front, convex 

 towards the vertex; ver>' finely reticulate and moderately shining; 

 finely gramilate-pimctate, sparsely in front, with closer, shorter, 

 erect, dark, plumose hairs behind, the epistoma bearing very 

 long, upcurved, slender, plumose hairs, and from the margin a 

 dense fringe of very long, simple, orange -coloured hairs; a sub- 

 triangular area behind the epistoma more brightly shining and 

 with a faint trace of a median carina; the antennal club pubescent, 

 elongate oval, moderately compressed, with the sutures transverse, 

 the last obli(|ue. 



The pronotum is very much wider than long, strongly arcuate 

 on the sides and \er\' strongly narrowed in front to the very 

 broadK- rounded but not emarginate front margin; with coarse, 

 shallow punctures, finely scabrous on the median area, with rather 

 numerous coarse, lunar rugosities on the middle of the sides, ending 

 in front in a submarginal row of rugosities connecting the lateral 

 dark areas; the colour-markings somewhat as in aculeatus, with a 

 black lens-shaped, longitudinal, median area, clothed with elongate, 

 plumose, dark-coloured, almost in\isible scales, intermixed with 

 stout plumose hairs; with a longitudinal, narrow, irregular, medially 

 widened, l)lack area in the middle of each side and the remainder 

 of the disc densely clothed with ver\- wide, flat, yellow-grey, 

 plumose scales, with a few stout plumose hairs intermixed, the 



