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have followed the last in its distribution clown through the 

 high altitudes of the Cascades and Sierras. The specimens 

 examined are also quite constant as to size and characters. 



Type male and female from Grant County, Oregon, July 

 22 and 23; 1914, in my own collection, paratypes deposited 

 in United States National Museum, California Academy of 

 Sciences and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Chrysobothris mail var. lineatipennis n. subsp. 



The more typical form of C. inali Horn which ranges throughout the 

 Pacific States, though to a certain degree variable as are all of the 

 species of the genus, still preserves a general facies and constancy of 

 characters which enables it to be readily recognized. In the essential 

 characters such as the slightly lobed prosternum, the usual feebly de- 

 veloped median sulcus of the pronotum, the disc without defined cal- 

 losities, and the form of tibial dilatation in the male, this subspecies 

 resembles it. It, however, differs in being generally smaller, 7 mm. in 

 length as against the usual 8 or 9 mm., in being narrower and more 

 parallel, more brilliantly cupreous and shining, with the head and pro- 

 notum excessively brilliant and contrasting with the elytra, as against 

 a duller bronze and more uniform coloration, in the upper surface be- 

 ing without the usual sparse pubescence, in having all of the elytral 

 costae more definitely elevated and defined, the second and third only 

 slightly interrupted, in having the clypeal excavation more acute and 

 with the sides not rounded externally, the anterior femoral tooth more 

 acute, and the anterior tibial dilatation of the male but slightly devel- 

 oped as against the well developed dilatation in typical forms. 



This insect I have for some time been considering as a dis- 

 tinct species, but upon further study find that I cannot con- 

 sider it as anything more than a well marked and somewhat 

 local subspecies. Its brilliancy, lack of pubescence, and 

 costate elytra will enable it to be readily separated from the 

 typical form. 



Four specimens, a male and three females, in my own col- 

 lection, collected in 1887 in the Santa Monica hills near Santa 

 Monica, California, critically examined. Several others have 

 been seen. 



Type male and paratype in my own collection. 



Chrysobothris cyanella Horn. 



A good series of this beetle collected under the same con- 

 ditions and in the same locality, the Kings River, in the South- 



