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Remarks : Horrida is very coarsely sculptured and with 

 longitudinal series of punctures on the elytra. The sculptural 

 deviations from the typical form are analogous to those 

 presented by squalida. 



In the monograph (Bull. 63, U. S. Nat. Mus.) specimens 

 from Calaveras County were referred to the typical form of 

 cordata ; the latter is found on the San Francisco peninsula, 

 and in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, but not 

 extending into the foot-hills of the western slope of the Sierra 

 Nevada Mountains. In horrida the pronotum is different in 

 the two sexes as in typical cordata; in patrnelis the pronotum 

 presents much less sexual differentiation and is almost simi- 

 lar in form in the two sexes. 



Eleodes (Blapylis) inculta var. affinis n. var. 



Form of inculta, from which it differs as follows : Males rather 

 more elongate ; pronotum narrower in both sexes, with the side mar- 

 gins distinctly and briefly sinuate before the basal angles, the latter 

 slightly prominent. Elytral sculpturing rather mere asperate, but not 

 coarsely so. 



In the male type the pronotum is about as wide as long, with the 

 sides evenly arcuate and just the least sinuate before the subdentiform 

 apical angles; tarsi as in inculta. 



In the female the tarsal pubescence is somewhat heavier. 



Measurements. Length, 12.5 to 15.5 mm. ; width, 5.7 to 8.6 mm. 



Types: <> and 9 in the collection of the California Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Type locality: Santa Cruz Island. Collector J. R. Slevin, 

 April 1 3th, 1913. Number of specimens studied, 7. 



Habitat: Santa Cruz and San Miguel Islands, off the coast 

 of California, south of Santa Barbara. 



Remarks: The series of affinis have been compared with 

 twenty-six specimens of inciilta, collected on the Island of 

 San Miguel. These specimens of inculta are smaller than 

 those previously studied from the Island of Santa Rosa (see 

 p. 331, Bull. 63, U. S. Nat. Museum). 



Eleodes vandykei Blais. 



This should be graded as a distinct species, as it is evidently 

 more closely related to granu'lata than to letchcri. A series 



