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Hololepta (Leionota) princeps. Lee. J. Proeeedings Aead. Nat. Sci. Phil., 

 p. 310. 1859. 



Marseul, Mon., p. 605. 1860. 



Horn. Pro. Amer. Phil. Soe., p. 274. 1873 (in error). 

 Oblong, rather broad. Front without strioles or depressions; 

 preocular tooth slightly prominent, depressed, supraorbital stria long, 

 distinct. Mandibles slightly longer than head, not striate at base; 

 stout. Pronotum strongly bisinuate at base, with a fine median longi- 

 tudinal stria extending from the base slightly past the middle ; marginal 

 stria entire, rounding the anterior and posterior angles, rather sharply 

 broadened in the anterior half; two short strias near the anterior margin 

 behind the eyes. Elytra the width of pronotum at base, arcuate on the 

 sides, slightly longer on the suture than the median length of the 

 pronotum; apical angle broad and rounded; bistriate, the first stria 

 short, about one-fourth the length of the elytra, the second very short, 

 without a trace of an apical appendix; subhumeral abbreviated at base 

 and apex. Inflexed portion of elytra rugose. Propygidium impunctate 

 on disk and apex, laterally bordered with a narrow band of punctures 

 which are of two sizes, larger and very sparse on the basal half, finer 

 and slightly more numerous on the apical half. Pygidium finely punc- 

 tate in an irregular band across the disk, smooth at base and apex, punc- 

 tures usually separated by twice their own diameter but irregular in 

 distribution. Mentum flat, punctate. Prosternum elevated, truncate 

 at apex. Lower crest of hind tibia not dentate. Length 10 mm. 



Distribution. Cahon Pass, California. (Tejon Pass, Cal., 

 Lee). 



This species is distinct from yucateca, with which it had been 

 synonomized by Horn (1873), being very much broader, and 

 with the punctation of the propygidium and pygidium sparser 

 and finer. Although yucateca occasionally has no apical 

 appendix to the second stria, it is readily separable from 

 princeps by the characters given above. 



In the Leconte collection in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, there are three specimens, the first of which bears 

 the label H. princeps Lee, with the locality Cajan Pass, Cali- 

 fornia. All three specimens are identical. Whether these are 

 the veritable types or not is impossible to say, as the species 

 was described by the elder Leconte, who, so Dr. Schwarz 

 tells me, was ■ accustomed to send his specimens to Count 

 Dejean. Some of his species, however, but which ones we do 

 not know, probably found their way into the collection of his son. 

 I shall consider these specimens as types as they agree with 

 the original description fairly well. The greatest point of 



