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and hairy. Length 14. 0-15.2 mm.; width 5.6-6.0 mm. Oregon. 

 [Fort Vancouver,— LeConte] radians Lcc. 



Sides of the elytra oblique posteriorly, becoming straight or feebly sinuate 

 before the tips 9 



g — Body rather stout, moderately convex, colored throughout as in laula; 

 head (9 ) as in that species, e.xcept that the central more densely sculp- 

 tured divided spot is not so clearly marked; prothorax four- fifths wider 

 than long, the sides scarcely converging and nearly straight to well 

 beyond the middle, there rounding and rapidly converging to the apex, 

 sensibly incurvate at base; apex subtruncate, broadly bisinuate, the 

 base also evenly bisinuate; surface with scarcely a vestige of impression 

 along the middle but with a small impression before the scutellum, the 

 punctures coarser than in laula and coalescent in short sinuous lines 

 medially, coarser and densely coalescent laterally; scutellum broader, 

 quadrate; elytra shorter, rapidly oblique at the sides in apical two-fifths, 

 the oblique sides straight, the apices broadly rounded, becoming trans- 

 verse suturally, the sutural angle right and rather blunt; surface as in 

 lauta, the costae well elevated but with the intervales more unevenly 

 though similarly densely cribrate; under surface finely, remotely punc- 

 tate medially, rather strongly and closely so laterally, the prosternum 

 flat and smooth, with an obsoletely subimpressed punctate median line. 

 Length 15.3 mm.; width 6.0 mm. Colorado (Boulder Co.) . aBiiiulan. sp. 



Body much narrower, smaller than lauta but with similar coloration and 

 sculpture, except that the green on the elytra is replaced by deep green- 

 ish-blue; head (c?) similarly finely, very densely punctate and pubes- 

 cent, the eyes larger and xnore prominent than in the female; prothorax 

 as in lauta but with the sides becoming less parallel behind the middle 

 though straight, not at all incurvate at base as they are in amula; punc- 

 tures for the most part isolated or simply crowded as in lauta; elytra 

 but little wider than the prothorax, as in lauta but about twice as long 

 as wide, the sides becoming oblique in apical third and feebly sub- 

 sinuate just before the apices, which are broadly subtruncate, the exter- 

 nal angles right but rounded, the truncature anteriorly oblique sutur- 

 ally, feebly undulated and with the sutural angle rather strongly spicu- 

 late; sculpture as in lauta, except that the intervales are still more 

 densely cribrate, almost -opaque; under surface as in lauta but more 

 strongly and closely punctured than in the male of that species. Length 

 (c?) 14-2 mm.; width 5.2 mm. Washington State (Tacoma) . 



tacomae n. sp. 



Body rather stouter, coloration nearly as in lauta throughout, excepting 

 a broad bluish-green streak on each elytron; head nearly as in cemula; 

 prothorax three-fourths wider than long, the sides converging and 

 straight from the base nearly to apical third, there rounding and more 

 convergent to the apex; surface narrowly impressed and finely, densely 

 punctate on the median line anteriorly; punctures isolated, rather 

 sparse, moderate in size, coarse and unevenly confluent laterally; elytra 

 evidently wider than the prothorax, the converging sides posteriorly 



