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on Artemisia californica ; the former is very abun- 

 dant everywhere, the latter generally less common: 

 diducta is found in Marin County, also (according to 

 Horn) in western Nevada and adjacent regions: atten- 

 uata is also occasionally taken in the middle Sierras, 

 Truckee (Fenyes). 



Galerucella. — G. nymphce, Owens Valley (Horn): 

 notulata has occurred in Alameda County: tuberculata is 

 quite common in various localities in the middle and 

 northern parts of the State. 



Monoxia. — M. puncticoltis is not common; found along 

 the Southern California seacoast — Santa Monica and 

 Santa Barbara — in August: conspida and sordida, both 

 quite variable, are plentiful and widely diffused: dehilis 

 is said to be from '^ Cal." and doubtless is found in the 

 south. 



Diabrotica. — D. 12-punctata is found only in the 

 southeast, as is also its variety tenella; the latter has 

 been taken at Yuma: soror and tr ivittata Sire everywhere 

 found west of the mountains, the former being one of 

 the commonest of our beetles. 



Phyllobrotica. — P. vhndipennis is not common; taken 

 in the San Bernardino Mountains, in July, by sweeping 

 herbage on a damp hillside: luperina, reported from 

 Santa Barbara: nigripes, Los Angeles. 



Scelolyperus. — S.fiavicollis, " Tejon and various places 

 in So. Cal." (Horn): raacuUcollis, San Diego, April: 

 graptoderoides, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles: 

 tejonicus, described from Tejon: loripes occurs in Tulare 

 County, schivm'zii and longuhis are found in the north, 

 and decipiens at Yreka. 



Trachyscelida. — T. bkolor, Yuma. 



