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Distribution: Type locality: Kadiak Island, Alaska, one 

 specimen collected by H. J. Holmberg in August, 1851. Man- 

 nerheim relates that Holmberg was. picking raspberries and 

 found this, the only beetle taken on the island, on a berry. 



Through the kindness of E. C. Van Dyke and of Prof. 

 Trevor Kincaid I have had the opportunity of examining three 

 specimens of this species. One very perfect male (coll. Van 

 Dyke) collected by Trevor Kincaid on Pribilov Islands yiii-15- 

 <I7; and a fine female collected by Mr. Kincaid on St. Paul 

 Island, viii-15-97, and loaned from his collection; the third a 

 specimen collected by Mr. F. E. Blaisdell at Nome, Alaska, it 

 is also a male and a very dark form with the scales much 

 sparser and grayer. The specimen belongs to Mr. Van Dyke. 

 Both males have the tip of the penis projecting and have the 

 mucronate process at the tip of the hind tibiae. Mr. Kincaid 

 (in lift.) states that he has another specimen remaining from 

 those collected by him. 



Prof. Washburn sent me from the Lugger collection, one 

 specimen of this species collected in "Alaska." This is prob- 

 ably the specimen mentioned as P. pubicottis by R. L. Webster 

 (1909). 



In the collection of the U. S. Nat. Museum are several 

 specimens of this species collected, according to Mr. Schwarz, 

 by the International Seal Expedition. 



This is an interesting species on account of its scale and 

 hair formation bringing it between pubicottis and trivittatus. 

 Further collections from this region will doubtless give us 

 evidence of a greater distribution and it may be that the species 

 occurs on both continents. Some of the Siberian forms 

 described are impossible for me to separate from several Euro- 

 pean forms, especially from P. suspiciosus, on account of the 

 meager descriptions, but this latter species can be readily sep- 

 arated from P. seriatus by the scale and hair characters, the 

 hind tibiae and the last abdominal segment. 



Phytonomus trivittatus Say. 



Phytonomus trivittatus: 



1831: Say: Desc. X. American Curi 12 13 



1859: Leconte: Comp. Writirj I 273 I. 



1873: Crotch: Cat. Coleop. X. America, p. II 1 -. no. 6998. 



1^7ii: Leconte: Rhvncophom of X. America, p 430, app. sp. 7 (unreci 



1885: Henshaw: Cat. Coleop. Am. X. of M«x.. p. 137. 



1909: Webster. R. L.: Entom. New -. 20 : 81 



