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punctured above, broadly, arcuately impressed, varying to rather 
strongly concave between eyes, with a sharp, elevated median carina 
on lower half (also variable); hairs short and fine. Eye not quite 
three times as long as wide, about half divided by a moderately nar- 
row, V-shaped emargination. Antenna with club twice as long as 
wide, all sutures oblique. 
Pronotum about 1.2 times as wide as long, widest at posterior 
angles; sides very feebly, arcuately convergent on posterior half, then 
strongly, arcuately narrowed to lateral constriction just behind 
broadly rounded front margin, distinctly impressed across dorsum; 
surface black, shining, with deep, moderately large, moderately close 
punctures, much finer and closer in front, sides punctured, not gran- 
ulate; median line very feebly elevated on posterior fourth, middle 
half with an approximate double line of smaller, more closely placed 
punctures; lateral calli very feebly indicated or entirely absent; 
hairs short and fine, slightly longer at sides. 
Elytra slightly wider than pronotum, about 1.87 times as long 
as wide; sides nearly straight and subparallel on anterior two-thirds, 
broadly rounded behind; surface piceous brown, moderately shining ; 
striae rather narrow, moderately strongly impressed, with moderately 
small, shallow, rather closely placed, indistinct punctures; interspaces 
rather wide on disk, convex, first two widened near base, rather 
coarsely granulate-punctate, rugose on anterior third, granules tend- 
ing to become fewer and uniseriate near declivity; vestiture short and 
scanty, but becoming more abundant near declivity. Declivity finely, 
closely, and roughly punctured, with rather abundant, short, slender 
hairs; striae narrow, distinctly impressed; first and third interspaces 
each with a row of moderate-sized serrations, those of first slightly 
larger and becoming obsolescent on apical third; second interspace 
nearly flat, shining, with fine, moderately close punctures, devoid of 
serrations. Anterior face of mesosternum slightly oblique. 
Female.—Similar to male in habitus, frons very wide between eyes, 
frontal rectangle about 0.65 as long as wide, convex, strongly 
granulate-punctate, rather indefinitely, transversely impressed, with 
a very fine, elevated median carina; elytral declivity similar to that 
of male but with the serrations somewhat smaller, and the vestiture 
consisting of a few slender hairs from bases of serrations and 
numerous small, flat, scalelike hairs. ; 
The type series was collected from juniper, Scaffold Meadow, Tulare 
County, Calif., by Hopping. The specimens before me include two 
specimens with identical data and probably from the same field lot; 
specimens taken from Juniperus occidentalis Hook., by Miller, Sequoia 
National Forest; from same host at Willow Ranch, Calif., by J. A. 
Beal; and from Alturas and Devils Garden, Calif., by E. F. Wohletz. 
