no. 3649 LEPTOFERONIA — HACKER 41 



Specimens from 15 localities, including two of the same localities 

 in El Dorado County, Calif., show further differences. They are 

 from El Dorado, Alpine, eastern Tuolumne, Madera, and Fresno 

 Counties. They also have attenuate hind trochanters. The median 

 lobe is stouter than in Oregon specimens and the tip is narrower 

 (see fig. 25). The tip of the median lobe is more abruptly narrowed 

 in northern specimens as compared to southern ones. The micro- 

 reticulation on the head is stronger and the micropunctures less 

 evident. The elytral striae are somewhat shallower, especially toward 

 the apices. The elytral humeri are strong; the scutellar stria usually 

 is absent. Occasionally, there are five punctures in the posterior series 

 on the eighth stria, never more than six. The length is frequently 

 less, ranging from 7.0 to 10.0 mm. 



Type. — Not examined. 



Type-locality. — Not known to me. 



Specimens examined. — 112. 



Distribution. — The Cascade Range from British Columbia 

 through Washington and Oregon and into northern California and 

 the Sierra Nevada of California. Also recorded from Reno, Nev. 

 In northern Oregon specimens have been found as low as 3000 feet; 

 in Fresno County, Calif., as high as 9400 feet. 



24. Pterostichus (Leptoferonia) termitiformis Van Dyke 



Figures 26, 28, 33 



Pterostichus termitiformis Van Dyke, 1925, p. 74. — Csiki, 1930, p. 713. — Leng 

 and Mutchler, 1933, p. 12.— Hatch, 1936, p. 705; 1953, p. 113. 



Color or body. — Light rufous. 



Head. — Large; eyes small, flat, about half length of first antennal 

 segment; frontal impressions shallow; antennae long; mandibles long, 

 distal half of left with two broad teeth; clypeus and labrum short; 

 labrum broadly emarginate, not straight along apical margin; penulti- 

 mate segment of maxillary palpus with four setae; faintly micro- 

 strigulose. 



Pronotum. — Sides sinuate before rectangular hind angles; hind 

 angles rather reflexed; posterior pair of setiferous punctures absent 

 (one female has a non-occelate setiferous puncture on one side some- 

 what forward from angle); inner pair of longitudinal impressions 

 shallow; outer impressions and transverse basal impression absent; 

 faintly microstrigulose. 



Elytron. — Humerus very rounded; humeral dentation obsolete; 

 scutellar puncture present; usually no trace of scutellar stria; intervals 

 nearly flat; setiferous punctures on eighth stria consisting of six in 

 anterior series, usually no intermediate, usually seven in posterior 

 series; two setae at posterior end of seventh stria; striae faint toward 

 apices; microstrigulose. 



