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meda and Marin Counties, April-June (Coil's Blaisdell and Van 

 Dyke). Other localities represented are Carmel, Monterey Co., 

 May 21 (Van Dyke) ; Guerneville, Sonoma Co., May 29; Carr- 

 ville, Trinity Co., June 3-30 (all in Van Dyke Coll.) ; Lake Co. 

 (Blaisdell and Van Dyke) ; Ahwahnee, Madera Co. (Fenyes) ; 

 Seattle, Wash., May 21 and Sept. 1 (Prof. O. B. Johnson). 



var. funehris Horn 

 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1871, p. 286. 



Entirely black, tip of elytra yellow in the male, otherwise pre- 

 cisely as in piinctidatus. 



Occurs with the typical form about San Francisco Bay and in 

 Monterey Co., specimens at hand bearing the same locality labels 

 as given above. 



The rather large size, conspicuously punctate head, and dull 

 elytra, make this species easily recognizable among those occurring 

 in the same region. The form of the elytral apex in the male is 

 characteristic. 



Pedihis oregonus n. sp. 



Length 5.9-7.8 mm. Type — Black prothorax rufous. Varies 

 as follows: In three examples (all <^'s), the tip of the elytra is 

 yellow; in one of these the thorax is black, in the others red, one 

 example is entirely black; in several others the elytra are rufotesta- 

 ceous with the suture and side margins — especially toward the 

 apex — narrowly to more widely blackish. In one the blackish 

 margin is almost completely wanting and the legs are pale with the 

 distal ends of the thighs blackish. 



Antenna entirely black, moderately serrate, half as long as the 

 body in the male, a little shorter in the female. 



Head unusually closely punctate, the punctures separated by less 

 than their own diameters except at the middle of the front, where 

 they are distant by their own diameters or a little more; tempora 

 parallel, the hind angles coarsely densely punctate. 



Prothorax finely, rather sparsely punctate. 



Elytra closely, not coarsely punctate. 



Male: Apical margin of elytra more widely reflexed but not 

 otherwise modified; front and middle tarsi distinctly dilated; side 



