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icsemble each other and are so characteristic of the coniferous 

 forests of the western part of our country. They all fall into 

 Dr. Horn's group IV. 2 As regards certain of the species 

 placed in this group, some mistakes were made because of the 

 lack of sufficient material and data. Later, some of these were 

 corrected and the status of a number more definitely outlined 

 in a paper by Mr. H. C. Fall. 3 The two species described by 

 me and mentioned above have, no doubt, if known, always been 

 placed with C. carinipcnnis Lee. Having good series of all 

 three in my hands, I found that I could quite readily separate 

 them and I hope that I have been able to bring out the differ- 

 entiating points so that others may do likewise. 



Anthaxia sublaevis n. sp. 



Oblong, moderately depressed; bluish black, beneath slightly green- 

 ish, front of head and sides of pronotum somewhat cupreous ; front 

 slightly depressed at middle, surface reticulate and clothed with a sparse 

 short silky white pubescence, clypeus slightly projecting and shallowly 

 and broadly incised with a V-shaped incision ; prothorax slightly less 

 than twice as wide as long, broader at middle than elytra, sides feebly 

 and regularly arcuate, posterior angles obtuse, disc slightly convex, a 

 slight depression on each side just anterior to basal angles, surface 

 finely reticulate ; elytra with sides parallel to posterior third, thence 

 convergent and with slight sinuation to apex, the apices rather broadly 

 and individually rounded and very finely serrate. Surface somewhat 

 shining and with reticulations so planed down, that surface is -fairly 

 smooth ; body beneath more shining than above, the thorax reticulate, 

 the abdomen quite smooth, claws slender and but slightly broader at 

 base. Length, 4 mm.; breadth, 1.25 mm. 



This species somewhat resembles and is perhaps closest to 

 A. viridifrons Lap., but it is proportionately shorter, smoother, 

 with the apical portion of the elytra more definitely sinuate, 

 and with the clypeus much more broadly and shallowly incised. 



My series consists of nine specimens, eight from Tuolumne 

 County, California, collected June 14, 1914, by F. W. Nunen- 

 macher, and one from Shasta County, California, collected 



2 A monograph of the species of Chrysobothris inhabiting the United 

 States, by George H. Horn, M.D., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. xiii 

 (1886), p. 84. 



3 On Chrysobothris calif 'arnica and allies, by H. C. Fall, Journ. N. Y. 

 Ent. Soc., Vol. xviii, No. i, Mch., 1910, pp. 45-52. 



