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the writer at Pomona, April 4, 1892, and a S from Tehachapi in 

 Dr. Fenyes' collection; Horn also gives Visalia. 



This is one of our smaller species and is instantly recognizable 

 by the caudate elytra of the male. The females of bardii are quite 

 similar in a general way to those of the other vittate species — 

 vittatus and lineatus — but in these the punctuation of the head and 

 thorax is distinctly denser, and that of the elytra less coarse than 

 in bardii. The female of distinguendus is identical in appearance 

 and may easily be confused with a number of others, more especially 

 of flexiventris and incorispicims, which are of about the same size. 

 From the female of flexiventris it may be distinguished by its dis- 

 tinctly more punctate head, but from that of inconspicuus there 

 seems to be no certain means of separation. 



Pedilus punctidatus Lee. 

 Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., 1851-52 V, p. 151. 



Length 5-8 mm. Black, prothorax reddish yellow, occasionally 

 with blackish discal cloud, elytral apex yellow in the male. Varies 

 with the elytra entirely testaceous, or the whole insect except the 

 tip of the elytra in the male may be black (var. funebris) . 



Antenna black, moderately serrate, half the length of the body 

 In the male, a little shorter in the female. 



Head rather strongly and closely punctate, the punctures separ- 

 ated on the average by their own diameters, a little less close at the 

 middle of the front; tempora densely rugosely punctate at sides. 



Prothorax quite distinctly punctate, the punctures slightly finer 

 than on the head and distant by about twice their own diameters. 



Elytra densely moderately coarsely punctate, lustre rather dull, 

 often faintly pruinose. 



Male: Apex of elytra smoother, finely punctate, and tipped 

 with yellow, the smooth area usually slightly more convex at the 

 summit of the declivity, the sutural angles somewhat acute but not 

 produced; front and middle tarsi distinctly dilated; side pieces of 

 oedeagus barbed internally near the tip. 



Female: Apex of elytra not modified; tarsi not dilated. 



An abundant species in the Bay Region of Middle California, 

 the numerous specimens at hand bearing labels San Francisco, Ala- 



