REVISION OF ELEODIINI BLAISDELL. 257 



Female. — Length, 21.5 mm.; Avidth. 9 mm. 



Taken at Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, California. 



In the latter aberration the anterior femora have a small obtuse 

 salient. In other respects both possess other characters as in dentipes. 



Tlab'dat.- — California. 



Forma pertenuis. — Ivaweah, Tulare County, Ralph Hopping; "Wat- 

 son Springs, Ma}?"; Martinez, Contra Costa County, January, collec- 

 tion U. S. National ISIuseum ; Colony Mills, Tulare County, elevation 

 5,415 feet, Fuchs and Hopping. 



Forma elongata — Loevis. — Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, ele- 

 vation 2,400 feet, jNIarch to August ; Fresno County. 



Punctata. — Placerville, Eldorado County; Corning, Tehama 

 County; Martinez, Contra Costa County; San Jose, San Mateo 

 County. 



Forma typica. — Counties bordering the Bay of San Francisco; Port 

 Harford, San Luis Obispo County; Ocean Beach, Los Angeles 

 County, J. J. Rivers; Xapa County, F. C. Clark; Trinity County, 

 E. C. Van Dyke; San Joaquin County; Argus Mountains; Yosemite 

 Valley ; San Bernardino Mountains. 



Forma prominens. — Port Harford, San Luis Obispo County, Col. 

 Thomas Casey. 



Forma robusta. — Fairmount, Los Angeles County; Fort Tejon, 

 Fuchs and Hopping; Kern County, Fordyce Grinnell; Tulare 

 County; Calaveras County; Napa Count}^ 



Forma confinis. — Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, elevation 

 2,300 feet; Xapa County; Santa Clara County; Tulare County; 

 Sonoma County. 



Forma elegans. — Hoopa Valley, Humboldt County, Col. Thomas 

 Casey. 



Number of specimens studied, 900. 



Disposition of the type unknown to me. 



Type -locality. — San Francisco; "on the hills beneath rocks." 



Salient type-characters. — Elongate and shining. Head and thorax 

 finely granulato-punctate ; thorax with sides rounded and strongly 

 sinuate at base; apical angles acuminate. Elytra finely striato-pmic- 

 tate, the punctures granuliferous (Eschscholtz). 



Diagnostic characters. — A very variable species both as to sculptur- 

 ing and general form. 



From acutlcatida it is recognized by the less strongly rounded sides 

 of the pronotum and in being less strongly and rather less suddenly 

 constricted at base, not broadly granular at the sides of the disc and 

 the elytra are never decidedly produced. 



In forma elongata the sides of the pronotum are most distinctly 

 granulate of any of the variations, but less so than in acuticauda var. 

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