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Limnebius. — L.piceus, common enough when found, 

 but inclined to be local; I have found it in numbers in 

 the streams of the foot-hills near Pomona and Pasadena; 

 politus, ahUaceus and congener are names given by 

 •Casey to forms occurring from San Francisco north; 

 they are, I think, based merely on local or individual 

 •and sexual variations of piceus. 



Laccobius. — L. ellipticus is extremely abundant every- 

 where. 



Philhydrus. — P. cavinatus and P. nebulosus are com- 

 mon and widely diffused: difusus, not rare in the Redondo 

 salt lake, also in salt marsh at Santa Barbara: cuspidatus 

 ■and Jtaiiiiltoni are recorded from the northern part of the 

 State. Specimens taken by myself at Sacramento are 

 by their color to be referred to hamiltoni ; this diflPer- 

 •ence, however, is of little consequence, and they are 

 structurally not materially different from dAffusu^ of 

 Southern California. P. californiciis is from an unre- 

 corded part of the State, "probably northern": conjundus 

 •occurs at Lake Tahoe. 



Helochares. — H. norinatas is found in most localities, 

 but nowhere very common. 



Cymbiodyta. — C punctatostriata, found only in moun- 

 tain streams: dorsalis, common and generally distrib- 

 uted: imbellis occurs from Fort Tejon north, and is not 

 rare in the neighborhood of San Francisco. 



Hydrobius. — H. fuscipes, not common, Pomona, Riv- 

 erside, San Bernardino: latiis, extreme north: scabrosus, 

 San Francisco and north. 



Creniphilus. — C. subcupreus, not very frequent; Po- 

 mona, San Bernardino Mountains, Yuma: elegans,* not 

 common, in the salt lake at Redondo: rujiventris, rare at 



* Specimens of this species recently received from Mr. Schwarz were taken by the late Henry G 

 Hubbard in salt springs at Salton on the Colorado Desert. 



