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The type is one of three males from Mt. Lemon, Santa Catalina 

 Mts., Arizona (Coll. Van Dyke). There is little doubt that the 

 black Arizona examples referred to by Horn under lewisii belong 

 here. 



Pedilus hardii Horn. 



Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1874, p. 42. 



Length ^-6 mm. Black, prothorax rufous, elytra each with a 

 slightly oblique testaceous vitta from the humerus to near the apex, 

 which is caudate and tipped with yellow in the male. 



Antenna entirely black, moderately serrate, a little longer than 

 half the body in the male. 



Head moderately punctate, the punctures separated on the aver- 

 age by their own diameters or a little more, the hind angles coarsely 

 densely punctate. 



Prothorax more finely and sparsely punctate than the head. 



Elytra coarsely, closely punctate. 



Male: Elytra in about the apical fourth, smooth and shining 

 with fine sparse punctuation, the apical fifth or more yellow, the 

 tips strongly acutely caudate and a little reflexed. Front and middle 

 tarsi slightly dilated; side pieces of oedeagus barbed on the inner 

 edge. ^ 



Female: Antennae a little shorter and less strongly serrate as 

 usual; elytral apex not modified; tarsi not dilated. 



The type was collected by Crotch at San Buenaventura (Ven- 

 tura), California. A single female from Santa Barbara is before 

 me. 



var. distinguendus Horn 



Loc. cit., p. 42. 



Identical in all respects with hardii, except that the elytra are 

 not vittate. 



The type was taken by Crotch at the same time and place as 

 hardii. This seems to be the normal or at least the more common 

 form of the species, though as yet but few specimens of either are 

 in collections. There are before me 7 5 's and 3 9 's, all from Santa 

 Barbara (Coil's Blaisdell and Van Dyke), except a pair taken by 



