termination based largely no doubt on the locality (San Francisco), 

 which is the same as for Le Conte's type. Although very briefly 

 characterized, the size, color, and narrow form, combined with the 

 locality, leave no doubt as to what Sharp had in hand. This species 

 is thus far known only from Central and Northern California, the 

 localities represented in the material at hand being San Francisco, 

 Vine Hill, Contra Costa Co. (Blaisdell) ; Santa Cruz, Napa, Santa 

 Rosa, Humboldt Co. The front and middle tarsi of the male are 

 distinctly dilated, the first and second joints subequal in width, the 

 third a little narrower ; claws of front tarsi small, of the same form 

 and length, the anterior one barely visibly thicker. 



C. suturalis Lee. 



Oval, nearly equally narrowed before and behind ; dull yellowish testaceous 

 above; black beneath; head infuscate near the eyes, leaving a triangular frontal 

 area pale ; thorax witth fuscous median spot confluent with the dark basal 

 margin; disk of elytra broadly infuscate, the markings in the typical form 

 completely suffused, leaving only the margins and a narrow sutural line, 

 paler. In many specimens the elytral markings are, however, fairly well 

 defined. Punctuation rather dense, coarser than in ovoidcus, the irregular 

 series of coarser elytral punctures not very distinct. Beneath coarsely, rather 

 densely punctate. Legs either uniformly pale or with the femora somewhat 

 clouded. Length 3.1 to 3.3 mm.; w r idth 1.7 to 1.8 mm. 



The type series consists of three specimens taken at Lake Superior, 

 the precise locality not named. Le Conte regarded all these as fe- 

 males, but a careful examination satisfies me that two of them are 

 males. In this sex the tarsi are very slightly wider, the second joint 

 sensibly wider than the third, while in the female joints 1-3 are of 

 nearly equal width. The front claw of the fore tarsus is not at all 

 modified in the male. There is a fourth specimen from "H. B. T." 

 in the Le Conte Collection, apparently differing from the original series 

 only in the better defined elytral markings. I have seen many examples 

 like this last taken by Mr. J. B. Wallis in Manitoba. (Miami, Le Pas, 

 Piquitenay River and Mile 214 H. B. Ry.) and others taken by Mr. 

 Howard Notman at Cochrane in N. Ontario. 



C. ovoideus Lee. 



Oval, about equally narrowed before and behind, uniformly rufotestaceous above, 

 head infuscate with pale vertex spot, thorax with basal margin darker, elytra 

 with the sutural edge blackish, body beneath black. Punctuation rather finer 

 and less close than in the allied species, the series of coarser punctures on the 

 elytra evident though not very conspicuous. Length 3.5 mm.; width 1.8 to 

 1.9 mm. 



The type locality is Eagle Harbor, Lake Superior. There are only two 

 examples in the Le Conte Collection, both of which judging from the 

 tarsi seem to be females. Le Conte in his description speaks of the 

 male as being a little more shining than the female, but it may be that he 



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