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near Pomona, November to January: semiruber, rare; 

 two examples only taken along a stream in foot-hills 

 near Pomona: hepaticus, very scarce, same locality as 

 preceding: flavolimbatus , has occurred at Pasadena in 

 November, but is *very rare west of the mountains; not 

 rare at Yuma: grandicollis, not common; my specimens 

 were taken in the bed of the Los Angeles River, near the 

 city, in August: longicornis, widely distributed, but not 

 very common: discoideus, rare at Pomona about stables: 

 alumnus, the form with red thorax and elytra is very 

 common at Yuma, on the river shore: pettiti and trian- 

 gulum, not rare, many localities: ferreipennis , rather 

 infrequent, Pomona, June to September: sordidus, com- 

 mon about houses and stables: versutus, two speci- 

 mens only, San Bernardino Mountains, elevation 5,000 

 feet: virilis, not rare, same locality as the last: nigritu- 

 lus, everywhere abundant: instabilis, has occurred on 

 one occasion at Mojave: quadmlus, not infrequent in 

 the foot-hills near Pomona: lecontei, not common, but 

 widely dispersed. In addition to the above the follow- 

 ing occur within the State: politus and albionicus, from 

 San Francisco, north; dunalis, at Alameda; puberulus, 

 from Tulare, north; theveneti, crotchi, punctatellus and 

 picicornis, in the middle Sierras and Lake Tahoe region ; 

 decipiens, bidentatus , siegwaldi, bucephalus, varians and 

 caurinus, from the north; furvus and ventralis, from 

 "Cal.," but probably not southern. There are in my 

 collection several probably undescribed species, for the 

 most part represented by females only. 



Actobius. A. ocreatus, not uncommon at Los Angeles, 

 Pomona, etc.: sobrinus, one specimen, Fort Yuma 

 (Horn): puncticeps, abundant everywhere in the foot- 

 hills and mountains; rare in the valleys: gratus, widely 

 diffused, but nowhere common: pcederoides, very common 



