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3 — Elytra having the suture clothed throughout with whitish or rufescent scales, the 

 vitta dilated laterally near base and apex and at the middle, also with a trans- 

 verse area of pale scales just behind the middle and seldom attaining the sutural 

 area, a subbasal and subapical marginal pale area and a basal ring at each side 

 of the scutellum. Length 2.7-3.6 mm.; width 1. 75-2. 25 mm. New Jersey and 



Europe scrophulari<e Linn. 



Elytra similar but witli a large uniform area of white scales extending from fourth to 

 three-fifths from the base, and from the margin to inner third or fourth. Length 



2.3-3.411:111.; width I.5-2.25 mm. Texas thoraciCUS Melsk. 



4 — Elytra clothed with black scales, with clearly limited areas clothed with whitish 

 scales nearly as in scrophularia, but with the sutural vitta generally interrupted 

 at apical third and the transverse marginal spot behind the middle rarely extend- 

 ing beyond the median line, the oblique marginal fascia at basal third or fourth 

 sometimes enlarged internally and forming with the basal sutural white regions a 

 large irregular white spot covering a third of the entire area ; pale scales of the 

 elytra always white. Length 2.3-3.0 mm.; width 1.5-2.0 mm. California 



(Sta. Cruz and Lake Cos.) occidens, sp. nov. 



Var. A — Similar to occidens but more narrowly oblong-oval, the scales of the 

 subbasal sutural area yellow and not white ; enclosed black spot within the 

 lateral pale area of the pronotum very near the inner edge of the latter. 



Length 2.8 mm.; width 1. 85 mm. Nevado (Reno) nevadicus, v. nov. 



Var. B — Similar to occidens, except that the large subbasal area on the suture 

 is clothed with dark fulvo-ferruginous scales, and the enclosed thoracic 

 spots are composed of fulvous, and not black, scales, the formation nearly 

 as in lepidus and its varieties. Length 25 mm.; width 1. 7 mm. Cali- 

 fornia pictus, v. nov. 



Elytra variegated nearly as in the preceding but with a sprinkling of brown scales ; 

 enclosed dark spot within the lateral white areas of the pronotum never black as 

 in occidens but clothed with fulvous-brown scales ; body smaller and less dilated. 

 Length 2.25-2.5 mm.; width 1. 6-1. 7 mm. California (San Diego) 



lepidus Lee. 

 Var. A — Body similar in form to the preceding, the pronotum less transverse, 

 densely clothed throughout above with ochreo- fulvous scales, replac- 

 ing the black scales of occidens; black scales wholly wanting at any part. 



Length 2.7 mm.; width 1.75 mm. California obtectus, v. nov. 



Var. B — Similar to lepidus but with the scales of the paler areas more suffused 

 and dispersed, the body more broadly oval, the prothorax larger, with the 

 sides less convergent ; antenna? longer, the club broader. Length 2.4-2.7 



width 1. 6-1.8 mm. California ( Lake Co. ) suffusus, v. nov. 



Var. C — Similar to lepidus but smaller and still narrower, the scales of the 

 elytra black and fulvous, confusedly intermingled, with some feeble whitish 

 sutural and external areas remindful of lepidus. Length 2. 15 mm.; width 



1.4 mm. California ,( San Diego) — Mr. Dunn conspersus, v. nov. 



5 — Broadly and evenly elliptical, convex, blackish-piceous, the legs paler; antennas 

 moderate, ferruginous throughout ; upper surface clothed with relatively very 

 large white and brown scales, confusedly mottled on the pronotum and elytra, 

 but with the white scales forming two tolerably distinct suboblique fasciae on the 



