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sense the "Californian" includes some elements now occurring in 

 the foothill region of the western Sierra Nevada and in the eastern 

 Coast Range, surrounding the great valley of California, and in the 

 Chiricahua and certain other mountain ranges of southern Arizona 



Fig. 2. Primary geographical ranges of some Cerambycidae classed 

 as Californian in the narrowest sense (dark shading), and intermediate 

 sense (with addition of the lighter shading). Note that some of these over- 

 lap the ranges of forms classed as Vancouveran (Fig. 1). 



(Fig. 2), and is sparsely represented in the Great Basin montane 

 (not shown in Fig. 2), Generally speaking, this is the cerambycid 

 fauna of the Upper Sonoran Life Zone of Merriam, but it is often 

 mixed with elements derived from the Sonoran and Vancouveran 

 subfaunas, especially the latter in so far as the Cerambycidae are 

 concerned. 



