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Cyrtusa. A single specimen of picipennis was taken 

 by myself in the San Bernardino Mountains, August. 



Agathidium. A. revolvens, rare, San Bernardino 

 Mountains, July: concinnum, Pomona, May, not com- 

 mon, more frequent farther north: virile, found rarely 

 at Pomona and Riverside in early spring: pulchrum, 

 taken on decaying mushrooms at Pomona, February: 

 californicum and sexstriatum occur in the middle and 

 northern parts of the State. 



Clambus. One example of a species near seminulum, 

 but smaller; Pomona, April. 



SCYDM^NID.E. 



This family is poorly represented in California, only 

 seventeen species being known from the entire State, 

 &nd of these but six have been found in Southern Cali- 

 fornia; moreover all of these six are of greater or less 

 rarity, a state of affairs surely not due entirely to the small 

 size of the specimens or lack of proper investigation. 



Connophron. C. occidens and G. digressum are repre- 

 sented, the first by a single specimen taken at or near 

 'San Bernardino by Mr. W. G. Wright, and now in the 

 collection of Captain Casey, the latter by three speci- 

 mens taken by myself about the roots of grass in a 

 marshy locality near Pomona. 



Scydmaenus ovipennis. A single specimen has been 

 taken at Pasadena by Dr. Fenyes in February. The 

 three other species listed are doubtless all members of 

 the Sonoran fauna. V. colon has occurred in San Diego 

 County, and C. deformata is said to have been collected 

 by Crotch at Los Angeles. 



Papusus macer. This was described from a unique 

 example taken by me under a stone at Palm Springs, on 



