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nally; surface scarcely concave, very sparsely punctate and setose, 

 setie very small; exteraial and internal borders straight; apical mar- 

 gin oblique externally and arcuate internally, angle broadly rounded, 

 apex small and short, triangular and finely setose, without longer 

 seta^ at tip ; fossa at middle of the external surface. 



Appendage small and short mammilliform, with a pencil of moder- 

 ately long setse at tip. 



Superior pudendal memhrane more or less longitudinally rugulose 

 and attaining the apical fourth of the dorsal plate. 



Basal prominences not evident. 



Ventrolateral surfaces flattened centrally to base, rounded laterally; 

 surface smooth and not noticeably setose; sides feebly concave later- 

 ally before the apices, and the submarginal groove broad beneath 

 the explanate external border of the dorsal plate. Internal mar- 

 gins of the valves contiguous in basal two-thirds; genital fissure in 

 apical third, moderately wide and fusiform. Inferior pudendal mem- 

 brane not visible. 



Habitat. — California (Tulare County, at Colony Mills, elevation 

 5,415 feet, Giant Forest ; Marble Fork, Kaweah River, elevation 5,200 

 feet, Kaweah to Progress Springs, elevation, 1,000-1,740 feet. Col- 

 lected by Charles Fuchs and Ralph Hopping). 



Number of specimens studied, 90. 



Sexitypes in \\\y own collection ; co-types in the collections of Van 

 Dyke, Fuchs, Hopping, and my own. 



Type-loccdity. — Colonj^ Mills, Tulare County, California. 



Salient type-characters. — Pronotum comparatively small, appar- 

 ently subcordate, the sides rather strongly arcuate anteriorly, behind 

 the middle less arcuate and very slightly converging, constricted in 

 basal seventh, thence quite straight to the basal angles, which are 

 subrectangular; disc rather finely and densely punctate, becoming 

 granular laterally ; apical angles distinct and subacute ; apex feebly 

 and evenly emarginate. 



Elytra about a third longer than wide, in the female broadly oval 

 and apparently inflated in contrast to the small prothorax ; disc mod- 

 erately convex on the dorsum, punctures rather coarse, densely and 

 irregularly placed, simple about the suture and exasperately granu- 

 late laterall}^ and about the apex. 



Diagnostic characters. — This species is variable in form, typically 

 the females are subcychriform; the heterotypes resembling conso- 

 hrina on the one hand and parncollis on the other. 



In typical specimens the prothorax is comparatively small and 

 apparently subcordate, the elytra broadly oval in the female, giving 

 the effect of inflation, when there is none the dorsum is moderately 

 convex; the humeri are broadly rounded in both sexes. Such 

 examples resemble consohrina. 



