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cinereous, scarcely at ail variegated with darker tint on the elytra ; beak 

 (9) rather slender, perfectly hliform throughout, not enlarged apically, 

 evenly and strongly arcuate throughout, the antennie inserted slightly 

 behind basal third, slender, the first funicular joint distinctly shorter than 

 the next two combined ; prothorax very short and transverse, rather more 

 than one-half wider than long, the sides evenly arcuate, gradually and 

 strongly converging and sinuate befoie the middle, the apex subtubulate, 

 dull in lustre, the punctures strong and extremely dense ; scutellum 

 densely squamose, with a tendency to fine parting along the median 

 line ; elytra unusually short, not over a third longer than wide, rather 

 obtusely cuneiform, with arcuate sides, the humeri prominent and much 

 exposed ; stride fine, not more than a fourth as wide as the intervals, which 

 are closely but not coarsely punctate ; fifth ventral unmodified, broadly 

 ogival ; legs long, the peduncle of the anterior femora rather long and 

 moderately slender. Length, 9, 7-° mm.; width, 3.4 mm.; length of 

 rostrum, ? , 5.0 mm. Utah (Stockton). 



While belonging to the strictus type, this species differs greatly in its 

 stouter form, relatively shorter elytra, more transverse prothorax and in 

 numerous other features. 



Mr. Chittenden (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., X, p. 22) definitely states as 

 a fact that the form described by me under the name occidetitis, is the 

 true utii/ormis, and gives to that which I identified as iiniformis, the name 

 baculi. There is some confusion here ; my specimens were identified 

 directly from LeConte's material, and, if memory serves, the type in that 

 collection was labelled " Texas," and was of the baculi form, more truly 

 fitting the name uiiiformis than the California variegated specimens. A 

 perfectly similar Texas example has been marked "exactly typical " in my 

 cabinet from the date of this actual comparison. However, I discovered 

 about a year after my description of occidentis was published, that tmiformis 

 was originally recorded by LeConte as Californian, and came to the conclu- 

 sion at that time that my occidentis was perhaps that species, or closely allied 

 thereto, but neglected to pubhsh anything concerning it.* Dr. Horn (Pr. 

 Am. Phil. Soc, 1S73, p. 459) confused a number of species under the 



*There are several allied species in the Pacific coast region of California ; 

 one, represented by the male type of occidentis, from Sonoma, beingf smaller, 

 with shorter, stouter beak and especially much shorter joints of the antennal 

 funicle ; the other larger and relatively stouter, from Sta. Clara Co., with longer 

 male beak and antennae, which might be regarded as the true uniformis. There 

 is another closely-allied form, labelled "Colorado," in my cabinet, and still 

 another from Siskiyou, Cal. 



