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iDiiger than Avide, two and one-half times as long as the prothorax, very finely, 

 sparsely, feebly and irregularly punctate; punctures asperate. Pygidium wider 

 than long, feeblj' convex, finely and rather sparsely punctate, moderately 

 sparsely and evenly covered with short slender squamose pubescence. Poste- 

 rior tar^i short, two-thirds as long as the tibiae; claws moderate, having a small 

 erect acute tooth interiorly near the base. Length 19.0 mm.; width 8.5 mm. 



California (San Diego Co.), also probabl}^ Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



Five or six specimens were taken by Mi'. G. W. Dunn, 

 and I have received the present specimen tlirongli the kind- 

 ness of Mr. W. G. W. Harford. 



This species difiers from squamicolUs, Lee. in almost every 

 character given by Dr. LeConte in the original description 

 of the latter (Journ. Phil. Acad. Ill, Nov. 1856, p. 225). 

 It may, however, perhaps be best to call special attention 

 to the more salient differences. Tliese are the size, sqnami- 

 col/is being one-third longer, and the form and vestiture of 

 the head and prothorax, the latter in munjiiiiita, having no 

 sign of a median channel, with the surface not impressed 

 toward the anterior angles, and having the punctuation ex- 

 tremely sparse near the sides of tin? })ronotal disk. The 

 scntellum in iiianjinata has no glabrous line, and the pygi- 

 dium is rather s[)arsely S(piamose. If ■s</^a(///fro//ix ])ossessed 

 three promiueut lines of scales upon the pronotum. with the 

 surface elsewhere almost entirely free from tliem, or if it 

 had three distinct lines of slightly denser pubescence upon 

 eacli elytron, it is to be presumed that such striking cliarac- 

 t(u-s would liave been mentioned by Dr. LcC^onte: this 

 ])ur(!ly negative evidence alone, therefore, is almost conclu- 

 sive |)i'()()f of tlie specific distinctness of iiuiiylixiJa and of 

 its validit\-. 



V. 

 VAilikTA. 



S veral errors occurring in th ; paper published by me in the preceding vol- 



uiui' of tills I5ull<'tin reijuire correction, as follows: 



I'ago 2U'.) -Stli line from Imttoiu, for "Colcidera" ri'ml "Calodera." 



Page ;iil 1st line of ilcscr,, for " L. longipennis" re ii{ "V. lougipciuiis." 



Pugt' ii'i? — loth and bTtli linos from top, /or " lloriiiarnm'' ri(((l "lh)rni- 



iinuni." 



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