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Tenebrioides MAURiTANicA Linn. Cosmopolitan. Dif- 

 fused by commerce. 



Alindria teres Mels. Atlantic region, Arizona, Cal- 

 ifornia. Sierra El Chinche (2,000 feet). 



BYRRIIID^. 



Limniciius nebueosus Lee. Los Angeles and south- 

 ward, California. Comondu. 



PARNIDy^,. 



Psephenus Haldemanni Horn. Baja California. 



Dryops productus Lee. California, Arizona. El 

 Paraiso, Comondu, Santa Maria, San Ignacio. 



Elmis abnormis Horn. Arizona. Baja California. 



Elmis similis Horn. New Mexico and Arizona. Co- 

 mondu. 



DASCYLLID^. 



Anorus piceus Lee. Owens Valley and southern 

 California. San Pedro Martir. 



RHIPICERID^. 



Vesperoctenus Flohri Bates. Plate 8, figs, i, 2,3. 

 For the identification of this insect I am indebted to Mr. 

 Julius Flohr, whose timely visit alone saved me from a 

 synonym as I never would have suspected that Mr. H. 

 W. Bates, with whom the Cerambycida? were a special 

 study, would have placed this insect in that family. 



The facies of this insect, less the antennae, is somewhat 

 that of a Toxotus and to my eye that of Callirhipis, al- 

 though the elytra are more narrowed behind, due to some 

 extent to the shrinking from drying. 



As remarked by Lacordaire in his characteristics of 

 the family, the anterior and middle coxit are conico- 



