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house and Kerremans for blonddi. On the other hand, it 

 seems unlikely that a species living on coniferous trees at an 

 altitude of 7,000 or 8,000 ft. in the Rocky Mts. is also a native 

 of the lowlands adjoining the Gulf of Mexico. The New Or- 

 leans specimen may therefore have been imported in timber ; 

 it should, however, be remembered that T. lecontei is also re- 

 ported from Louisiana. 



T. nimbosa n. sp. 



Very similar in form and size to blondeli, of a dull bronze, with sparse 

 subsquamiform pubescence ; the elytra numerously irregularly immacu- 

 late with opaque velvety black spots, three of which in a longitudinal 

 line on each elytron are larger and occupy more pronounced impressions. 

 Head and prothorax densely punctate and impressed as usual in the 

 genus ; the pronotal excavations fully as deep as in blondeli, the lateral 

 crests even more strongly angulate than in that species. Elytra each 

 with three or four feeble costse more or less interrupted by the impres- 

 sions, the surface altitaceous and moderately closely punctate, the 

 punctures not crowded as in blondeli or more especially in opulenta. 

 Beneath more conspicuously pubescent, sterna densely punctate and 

 dull, the abdomen shining brilliant coppery bronze, the first segment 

 sparsely finely punctate, the following ones minutely and remotely so. 



Length, 15-17 mm.; width, 4^-5^ mm. 



Hab. This species ranges from Tulare Co., California, to 

 British Columbia. 



Three examples all 9 s are before me, two taken by Mr. 

 Hopping at " Marble Bridge" (5,200) and " Round Meadow, 

 Giant Forest," Tulare Co., California. The third specimen 

 was taken by Dr. Fenyes at Glen Alpine (7,000 ft.) near Lake 

 Tahoe, Cal. The elytra of the latter specimen are completely 

 devoid of pubescence, as is the case in a specimen in the Le- 

 Conte collection from British Columbia, which, however, Mr. 

 Blanchard believes is identical with the Marble Bridge speci- 

 men, which I have taken as the type. 



Mr. Hopping informs me that the specimens taken by him 

 three in all were found flying in the Giant Forest, and he 

 does not know their food tree. Dr. Fenye's example was 

 found on the trunk of a fallen coniferous tree which, from 

 memory, he believes to have been a spruce, certainly not a 

 pine. Mr. Fuchs writes me that he once had specimens of 

 this species (which he speaks of as lecontei} from Tuolumne, 



