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Types: $ and 9 in the author's collection. Collectors 

 Blaisdell and Letcher. 



Type locality and habitat: Davis' Meadow near Railroad 

 Flat, Calaveras County, California. Elev. 1400 ft., June. A 

 series of fifteen specimens. 



Remarks : At first glance squalida resembles cordata in 

 form and elytral sculpturing, except the serial arrangement ; 

 the pronotal punctuation is that of parvicollis. It is of interest 

 to note that the pronotum is exactly of the same form and 

 proportion in both sexes equally arcuate and equally con- 

 stricted at base. 



Squalida is one of the many interesting geographical races 

 of parz'icollis, and still more so when we consider that a race 

 of cordata inhabits the same region and presents analogous 

 variations of sculpturing namely horrida, described below. 



The environment is a small meadow surrounded by pines 

 (Pimts ponderosa Dougl.) with white oaks (Ouercns lobata- 

 Nee.) in the open areas. The ground is more or less shaded 

 and the usual mat of pine needles covers the ground among 

 the pines, and in the open under the oaks, the oak leaves, dead 

 branches and bark cove^ the ground. Since the series of 

 squalida was collected, some twenty years ago, a fire has 

 swept the region and greatly thinned out the pines. In this 

 same spot Omits blaisdelli Casey was taken. 



Eleodes (Blapylis) pimelioides var. patruelis n. var. 



Moderately robust, ovate to ovate-oval, dull in lustre, and about twice 

 as long as wide ; prothorax more or less strongly constricted at base, 

 densely punctate, intervals mere lines ; elytra sculptured with small 

 and more or less rounded granules or tubercles laterally, subasperately 

 punctate each side of the suture; tubercles shining at summit, not 

 reclinate or distinctly piliferous. 



Head densely and somewhat coarsely punctate. Antennae some- 

 what shorter than in pimelioides, otherwise the same. 



Pronotum widest at the middle, about one-third of the length wider 

 than long; sides evenly arcuate in front of the middle and convergent, 

 slightly subangulate at the middle, and thence obliquely and feebly 

 arcuate to become sinuate at basal seventh, and then straight and 

 parallel to the basal angles, the latter rectangular; base feebly arcu- 

 ate ; apex feebly emarginate with angles obtuse. 



