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Color of body. — Light rufous. 



Head. — Large in proportion to body; mandibles long; frontal 

 impressions short and shallow; eyes fairly prominent, small but 

 longer than second antennal segment; disc microstrigulose with fine 

 sparse punctures. 



Pronotum. — About as long as wide; sides feebly arcuate in middle, 

 broadly sinuate before rectangular hind angles; anterior angles nar- 

 row and prominent; base proportionately narrower than in caligans; 

 posterior pair of setiferous punctures at hind angles; basal transverse 

 impression, when present, not reaching between shallow inner longi- 

 tudinal impressions; outer impressions small; microsculpture as on 

 head. 



Elytron. — Humerus somewhat rounded; humeral dentation not 

 large; sides subparallel; scutellar stria and scutellar puncture present; 

 intervals nearly flat; setiferous punctures on eighth stria consisting 

 of six in anterior series, one intermediate, seven or eight in posterior 

 series; two setae at posterior end of seventh stria; microreticulate. 



Ventral surface. — A few coarse punctures on mesepisternum. 



Legs. — Hind trochanter blunt, short, about one-third the length 

 of hind femur; legs slender, but not as slender as in termitiformis ; 

 setae present on ventrolateral margins of last article of tarsus. 



Sixth abdominal sternum of male (fig. 20). — Unmodified. 



Aedeagus (fig. 20). — Right paramere small, flattened, tapering 

 to point in lateral view. Median lobe with sharp carina extending 

 from right side to middle of ventral surface; area adjacent to carina 

 tumid; probably a lightly sclerotized strip present. Internal sac with 

 prominent sclerotized tooth. 



Length. — 9.0 to 11.0 mm. 



Type. — Pterostichus jalli, male, CAS 1824! 



Type-locality. — Hills east of Hollywood, Los Angeles County, 

 Calif. 



Specimens examined. — 8. 



Distribution. — Known only from type-series collected by Van 

 Dyke from hills east of Hollywood 50 years ago. 



21. Pterostichus (Leptoferonia) sphodrinus LeConte 



Figure 21 



Pterostichus sphodrinus LeConte, 1863, p. 10. — Schaeffer, 1910, p. 393. — Casey, 



1913, p. 129.— Leng, 1920, p. 56.— Darlington, 1931, p. 158.— Hatch, 1936, 



p. 704; 1953, p. 112.— Lindroth, 1966, p. 469. 

 Monoferonia idahoanus Casey, 1924, p. 78. — Leng and Mutchler, 1927, p. 10. — 



Darlington, 1931, p. 158 [fide synonymy of sphodrinus]. — Hatch, 1936, 



p. 704; 1953, p. 112. 

 Monoferonia idahoensis [sic]. — Leng, 1933, p. 78 [misspelling of idahoanus Casey]. 



