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near Pomona, November to January: semiruber, rare; 

 two examples only taken along a stream in foot-hills 

 near Pomona: hepaticas, very scarce, same locality as 

 preceding: fiavolimbatus, has occurred at Pasadena in 

 November, but is very rare west of the mountains; not 

 rare at Yuma: grandicollis, not common; my specimens 

 were taken in the bed of the Los Angeles River, near the 

 ■city, in August: longicoi'nis, widely distributed, but not 

 very common: discoideus, rare at Pomona about stables: 

 alumnus, the form with red thorax and elytra is very 

 ■common at Yuma, on the river shore: pe.ttiti and trian- 

 giduiii, not rare, many localities: ferreipennis , rather 

 infrequent, Pomona, June to September: sordidus, com- 

 mon about houses and stables: versutus, two speci- 

 mens only, San Bernardino Mountains, elevation 5,000 

 feet: virilis, not rare, same locality as the last: nigritu- 

 ius, everywhere abundant: instabilis, has occurred on 

 one occasion at Mojave: quadrulus, not infrequent in 

 the foot-hills near Pomona: lecontel, not common, but 

 widely dispersed. In addition to the above the follow- 

 ing occur within the State: polif.us and albionicus, from 

 San Francisco, north; clunaiis, at Alameda; puberulus, 

 from Tulare, north; theveneti, c7'otchi, punctatellus a,n.d 

 picicornis, in the middle Sierras and Lake Tahoe region ; 

 iiecipiens, bidentatus, siegivaldi, bucephalus, varians and 

 •ticiurmus, from the north; furviLS and ventralis, from 

 *'Cal.," but probably not southern. There are in my 

 "Collection several probably undescribed species, for the 

 most part represented by females only. 



Actobius. — A. ocreatus, not uncommon at Los Angeles, 

 Pomona, etc.: sobrinus, one specimen. Fort Yuma 

 (Horn): puncticeps, abundant everywhere in the foot- 

 hills and mountains; rare in the valleys: gratus, widely 

 diffused, but nowhere common: pcederoides, very common 



