Pacific coast. Specimens are known to me or reliably reported from 

 Maine, (York Beach;) Massachusetts (Marion, Tyngsboro;) New 

 York (Adirondack Mountains; Buffalo;) New Jersey ("all sections of 

 state" Smith's List;) Southwestern Pennsylvania (Hamilton List;) 

 Ohio; N. Illinois; Wisconsin; Central and Northern Indiana 

 (Blatchley;) Ottawa, Canada; Cochrane, N. Ontario (Notman;) Lake 

 Superior; Winnipeg, Manitoba (Wallis,) Kansas; "Northwest Terri- 

 tory" (Say's description;) British Columbia (Peachland Wallis;) 

 Seattle, Washington (O. B. Johnson;) Carlin, Nevada. 



This species has been held by most writers to be at most only a 

 variety of the European inaequalis. This view however is not shared 

 by Sharp who says of punctatus "rather different in outline being broader 

 in the middle and so less parallel in form, with the punctuation of the 

 elytra rather dense, and the upper surface without distinct contrasts 

 of color." The difference in form stated by Sharp seems to have some 

 slight basis in fact, though rather difficult of appreciation by the 

 unimaginative student. Personally I have seen no American examples 

 that in brightness of makings could be considered as typical Inaequalis, 

 Crotch however mentions "two specimens from Illinois marked precisely 

 as in the European species." 



C. hydropicus Lee. 



Broadly ovate, convex, nearly similar in form to punctatus but a little more 

 elongate, flavo-or rufotestaceous, outer joints of the antennae and front and 

 hind margins of thorax more or less infuscate; elytra dull yellow, disk with 

 broadly confluent fuscous shades, which in the more definitely marked examples 

 leave the sides and transverse basal and postmedian series of spots or dashes, 

 yellow. Punctuation above and beneath still denser than in punctatus, and on 

 the elytra distinctly dual in character, especially baso-medially ; not very ob- 

 viously so in punctatus. Front and middle tarsi very distinctly dilated in the 

 male, the claws not sexually modified. Length 2.8 to 3.2 mm.; width 1.7 to 1.8 

 mm. 



California Middle and Southern. Le Conte's type is from San 

 Diego. Specimens before me are from Pomona, Pasadena, Santa 

 Margarita (San Luis Obispo Co. Martin) Guerneville, Sonoma Co. 

 (Blaisdell,) and Vine Hill, Contra Costa Co. (Blaisdell.) 



The general similarity to the well known punctatus, combined with 

 the dilated male tarsi render this species easily recognizable. It 

 is thus far known to me only from California and I have as yet seen 

 no specimens of punctatus from this state, though its proximity both to 

 the north and east make its ultimate discovery there not unlikely. 



C. intermedius sp. nov. 



Oval, moderately elongate, yellowish testaceous, head (more or less) and front 

 and hind margins of thorax infuscate; elytra with broad suffused fuscous 

 clouds which leave only the side margins and some indistinct subbasal and 



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