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sides at the base and having its apex on the suture at apical seventh or eighth, 

 sometimes enveloping the entire base and extending posteriorly along the sides 

 behind the middle ; under surface black, the legs dusky-testaceous, with the 

 femora darker. Length I.8-2.O mm.; width 1. 3-1. 4 mm. Louisiana, Texas 

 and Arizona ( Tucson ) cinctUS Lee. 



Elytra} punctures fine, strong and very close- set ; upper surface testaceous, the prono- 

 tum with a broad parabolic and rather poorly defined black spot, extending to 

 about apical fourth ; sides slightly discontinuous, the punctures minute and incon- 

 spicuous, very close broadly toward the sides ; elytra with a black sutural vitta, 

 sinuously expanding toward base, where it does not extend laterally much beyond 

 the middle of each, finely attenuate posteriorly and not attaining the apex ; under 

 surface and legs as in cinctus. Length 1.8-2.0 mm.; width 1. 2-1. 4 mm. 

 California ( Sta. Barbara); [suturalis || Lee] lecontei Cr. 



61- — Head testaceous, the pronotum black, with the apical margin narrowly, and 

 apical angles more broadly, indefinitely pale, short and transverse, the sides 

 strongly discontinuous, feebly convergent, evenly and moderately arcuate, the 

 punctures fine but strong and very close-set throughout ; elytra dark rufo-testa- 

 ceous, with sutural black vitta gradually expanding to the base and a nubilate 

 lateral area not attaining base or apex, varying thence to entirely black, 

 with a narrow oblique red discal streak on each closely approaching the suture 

 posteriorly ; punctures fine, strong, even and extremely close-set ; pubescence 

 rather long, coarse and conspicuous ; under surface black, the legs slender, 

 testaceous, the femora black with the extreme tip red ; male with the fifth ven- 

 tral less feebly sinuate at apex than in lecontei. Length 1. 8-1. 9 mm.; width 

 1. 1-1.25 mm. California (Sonoma Co.) sarpedon, sp. nov. 



62 — Body broadly oval, each elytron with a distinctly defined discal red spot just be- 

 fore the middle, the spot obliquely subrhomboidal in form ; pronotum pale at 

 the apical angles, the sides continuous and strongly convergent, arcuate ; elytra 

 sparsely punctate, the pubescence coarse and distinct. Length 2.5 mm. ; width 

 1.7 mm. California paciticus Cr. 



Body broadly oval, each elytron with a more elongate oblique red spot before the 

 middle of the disk, the spot nearly attaining the suture ; pronotum entirely black. 

 Length [2.5 mm]. New Mexico strabus Horn 



Body narrowly oblong-oval and much smaller, the elytra pale testaceous, with the 

 suture narrowly blackish, the dark tint extending nubilously along the basal mar- 

 gin to the sides and sometimes prolonged backward along the latter for some 

 distance, the punctures not very close ; prothorax much smaller, distinctly nar- 

 rower than the elytra, the sides strongly discontinuous, feebly convergent and 

 feebly arcuate, black, gradually paler toward the apical angles ; under surface 

 and legs black, the ventral plate distant from the segmental apex by half of its 

 own length. Length 1. 6-1. 9 mm. ; width 0.8-I.I mm. California (Lake 

 Tahoe, Truckee and Monterey) coniferarum Cr. 



63 — Very narrow and elongate-oval, polished, black, each elytron with a large triangu- 

 lar red spot at the centre cf the disk; under surface and legs black, the trochanters 

 and tarsi paler ; prothorax unusually feebly transverse, scarcely twice as wide as 

 long, the sides obviously discontinuous, feebly convergent and nearly straight, 

 becoming feebly arcuate at apex ; punctures remote and almost obsolete ; elytra 



