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when he described the species. Following it are five other specimens, 
all females, with the label ‘‘Cal.”’ and a male with the label ‘Cala.’” 
The type specimen, a male, is pale yellow, with a narrow sutural and 
moderately wide lateral vitta extending from the base over the 
humerus but not reaching the apex. The head is polished, impunctate, 
rounded, a deeper yellow than the prothorax, with the mouthparts 
having darker tips. The interocular space is more than half the width 
of the head. The antennae are pale, not extending to the middle of the 
elytra, the fourth jomt nearly twice as long as the third. The pro- 
thorax is widest before the middle, is a third wider than long with a 
faint suggestion of spotting, and is polished and nearly impunctate. 
The scutellum is pale. The dark elytral vittae are joined about the 
base with a narrow dark line. The elytra are not very distinctly 
punctate. The body beneath is pale, the breast slightly deeper yellow- 
brown in coloring. The anterior coxal cavities are open. 
A series of specimens in the Van Dyke collection at the California 
Academy of Sciences, collected at Potwisha, Sequoia National Park, 
Calif., altitude 2,000-3,000 feet, corresponds entirely with the LeConte 
type. I have examined a great many other specimens from localities 
in general nearer the coast and from farther north in California that 
present wider dark elytral vittae, a dark scutellum, and usually entirely 
dark undersurface. ‘These specimens have been taken at Auburn 
(Placer County), Carrville (Trinity County, altitude 2,400-2,500 
feet), Chico (Butte County), Davis (San Joaquin County), Fairfax 
(Marin County), Grass Valley (Nevada County), Lake City (Modoc 
County), Los Gatos (Santa Clara County), Moraga Valley (Contra 
Costa County), Morgan Hill (Santa Clara County), Napa County, 
Paraiso Springs (Monterey County), Santa Cruz Mountains (Santa 
Clara County), Santa Rosa, Walnut Creek (Contra Costa County), 
Vinehall (Contra Costa County). In all these the aedeagi appear to: 
be very much the same. The darker and more northern and coastal 
specimens may be simply a color form. 
There are also specimens from Graniteville (Nevada County), 
Cayton (Shasta County), and Eldorado County, all inland and from 
mountainous localities, that are somewhat intermediate, being paler 
in coloring, particularly of the undersurface, but not quite so pale as 
the type. In these, too, the aedeagus is indistinguishable from that of 
the specimens corresponding to the LeConte type. 
LUPERODES DIEGENSIS, new species 
PLATE 6, FIGURE 16 
About 4—5.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong, shining pale yellowish 
with narrow dark elytral vittae at suture and from the humerus nearly 
to the apex, body beneath dark, last four or five antennal joints 
tending to be slightly paler than basal ones. 
