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Habitat. — California (Wickhani has taken this species at Bodie in 



July, elevation 8,475 feet.) Nevada (specimens in the U. S. National 



.Museum collection simply bear the state label — Hubbard and 



Schwarz ; AVickham has taken it at Reno, Carson City, and Queens 



Station). 



A specimen in the Fuchs collection l)ears a pencil label *•' Crescent 

 City." I know of only one such locality in Del Norte County, Cali- 

 fornia; on the pin also is a smaller label bearing the letters CC I 

 do not believe that this species occurs in Del Norte County, and in all 

 probability the specimen was collected at Carson City, Nevada. 



Number of specimens studied, 7. 



Type a female in the LeConte collection. 



fype-locality.—\Ji^\\—'Vjv.e-Ai Salt Lake Desert" (LeConte). 



Salient type-chavacterx. — Thorax with the sides rounded, posterior 

 angles obtuse. Elytra closely and irregularly punctate, at the sides 

 and apex subnniricate (LeConte). 



Diagnostic characters. — In form hirsuta resembles Amphidora 

 nigropilosa. The body surface is shining and at times quite dull, 

 especially on the head and thorax. The hairs of the elytra are nearly 

 equal in length, and the sculpturing is quite densel}^, irregularly and 

 not asperately, submuricately punctate. 



This species can only be confused wath piJosa, from which it 

 especially differs in being smaller and more robust, with more broadly 

 oval elytra, and in having the sides of the pronotum distinctly 

 margined. 



From longipilosa it is quickly recognized by the niutic anterior 

 femora and simple elytral apices. 



In hirsuta the pronotum is pubescent, in letcheri it is not. 



Variations. — In two examples in the U. S. National Museum 

 collection the punctures of the central area of the pronotal disc are 

 more sparsely placed and slightly less strongly impressed than usual. 



The mentum is small and triangular. 



The prosternum is variable as in pilosa., and at times horizontal 

 between the coxfe, mucronate behind. 



The mesosternum is more or less obliquely arcuate and quite broadly 

 and deeply concave. 



The anterior tibia? have the external borders more or less feebly 

 carinate in basal half and thence more or less finely denticulate to 

 apex. These characters are less evident in the middle tibise and nearly 

 or quite obsolete in the posterior. The anterior tibicT, and the middle 

 to a less extent, are more or less feebly arcuate, and at times more 

 evidently so. This character is nearly always more pronounced in 

 the males. 



" Two males in the LeConte collection have the front and middle 

 tibiae the least bit incurved at tip " (Blanchard). 



