BEETLES OF GENUS LUPERODES—BLAKE 63 
LUPERODES MELANOLOMATUS, new species 
Puate 6, Fiaure 17 
About 5-6 mm. in length, oblong, somewhat shining, pale, with 
very narrow dark sutural and lateral elytral stripe and with the edge 
of the elytra from below the humerus or in apical half darkened; 
breast, sometimes abdomen, and usually tibiae and tarsi and some- 
times half of femora dark. 
Head pale, smooth, rounded over the occiput, tubercles defined, 
interocular space more than half the width of the head. Antennae 
dark with first three basal joints pale, extending below the middle of 
the elytra, third joint half as long as the fourth. Prothorax about a 
fourth wider than long, widest anteriorly and narrowed toward the 
base; disk not very convex, faintly shining, very finely alutaceous, 
entirely pale. Scutellum reddish or piceous. Elytra oblong, not 
very convex, somewhat shining, very finely alutaceous and finely 
punctate; a dark reddish-brown or piceous sutural vitta, sometimes 
narrowing so that only the edges of the suture are dark, and a narrow 
lateral vitta extending over the humerus and base and connecting 
with the sutural vitta about the scutellum, the lateral vitta not reach- 
ing the apex of the elytron, but the sutural vitta usually extending to 
the apex and joining there with a dark marginal edge which extends 
to the epipleura and runs along the margin from below the humerus 
or sometimes from about halfway down the elytron. Body beneath 
in pale specimens pale with reddish-brown breast, but in darker speci- 
mens both breast and abdomen often darkened. Legs usually pale 
at base, often femora entirely pale, but usually the femora dark at the 
apex, tibiae and tarsi dark. First tarsal joint of hind leg nearly as 
long as the remainder together. All tibiae spurred. Length 5-6.5 
mm.; width 1.8-2.2 mm. 
Type, male, and 4 paratypes (2 male, 2 female), the type and 2 
paratypes (1 male, 1 female) in collection of the California Academy 
of Sciences; 2 paratypes (1 male, 1 female) in National Museum collec- 
tion, U.S.N.M. No. 55113. 
Type locality.—Pifion Flat, San Jacinto Mountains, Calif., collected 
by E. G. Linsley and E. 8. Ross, May 24 and 25, 1939. 
Other localities —Santa Rosa Park, Riverside County, Calif., col- 
lected June 22, 1940, in the Van Dyke collection; El Toro, Orange 
County, collected by C. Dammers, May 17, 1938. 
Remarks.—There are also two old specimens in the National 
Museum collection labeled simply ‘‘Cal.” and “S. Cal.’’ Apparently 
this species is confined to southern California. It is not closely related 
to L. bwittatus (LeConte) although vittate. It belongs to an entirely 
different group, being allied to ZL. californicus Schaeffer and having 
a similarly shaped prothorax and long antennae. 
