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triangularly emarginate, rapidly, slightly arcuately broadening to the tip, 

 each with a tuft of long yellowish hair near the middle of the posterior 

 margin, the exact shape of which is thus concealed. Abdomen above 

 convex, surface more shining than that of the rest of the body, the 

 pubescence long, recumbent, very fine and sparse ; arcuation of the 

 juxta-basal portion of the margin more regular and less sudden than in 

 A. Lecontei, which it closely resembles in the form of the impressions and 

 foveas. Body beneath of the same colour as above, scantly pubescent. 

 Legs stouter than in A. Lecontei or A. Taylori, middle femora of male 

 with a large strong curved basal tooth, middle tibiae slightly curved, but 

 without strong sinuation or tooth. Length 2 mm. 



Type, <3 from Sisson, California, in the Mount Shasta district. 

 Collected by myself in a nest of a pale 

 variety of Lasius niger,h. (det. Pergande), 

 under the bark of an old stump, near the 

 end of July, 1900. This beetle is readily 

 distinguished from the other Pacific 

 Coast species by the facies, smaller size 

 and greater opacity. Fig. 2a shows the 

 middle leg of the £ , Fig. 2b the antenna. 



Adranes Taylori, n. sp. — Reddish 

 yellow, shining, above finely punctured 

 and with rather long yellowish recumbent 

 pubescence, which does not conceal the 

 surface nor give the effect of opacity. 

 Head (\n profile from above) truncate 



anteriorly, sides gradually slightly divergent to a point behind the middle, 

 thence rapidly narrowed to base. Antennae with the second joint 

 cylindrical, not tapering to the tip. Pronotum, broadest about one-third 

 from the base, narrowing anteriorly to about the width of the head and 

 posteriorly to near that of the elytra. Behind this j broadest part is, on 

 each side, an oblique impression, while on the median line near the base 

 is a large rounded hairless fovea. Base of elytra equal to or slightly 

 greater in width than that of the prothorax, conjointly deeply triangularly 

 emarginate ; rapidly arcuately broadening to apex, each with a tuft of 

 long yellowish hair near the middle of the posterior margin, the exact 

 shape of which is thus concealed. Abdomen above convex, surface more 

 shining than that of the rest of the body, the pubescence rather long, 



