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on Artemisia, californica ; the former is very abun- 

 dant everywhere, the latter generally less common: 

 diducta is found in Mariu County, also (according to 

 Horn) in western Nevada and adjacent regions: atten- 

 uata is also occasionally taken in the middle Sierras, 

 Truckee (Fenyes). 



Galerucella. G. nympkce, Owens Valley (Horn): 

 notulata has occurred in Alameda County: tuberculata is 

 quite common in various localities in the middle and 

 northern parts of the State. 



Monoxia. M. puncticollis is not common; found along 

 the Southern California seacoast Santa Monica and 

 Santa Barbara in August: consputa and sordida, both 

 quite variable, are plentiful and widely diffused: debilis 

 is said to be from " Cal." and doubtless is found in the 

 south. 



Diabrotica. D. 12-punctata is found only in the 

 southeast, as is also its variety tenella; the latter has 

 been taken at Yuma: soror and trivittata are every where 

 found west of the mountains, the former being one of 

 the commonest of our beetles. 



Phyllobrotica. P. viridipennis is not common; taken 

 in the San Bernardino Mountains, in July, by sweeping 

 herbage on a damp hillside: luperina, reported from 

 Santa Barbara: nigripes, Los Angeles. 



Scelolyperus. S.flavicollis, " Tejon and various places 

 in So. Cal." (Horn): ruaculicollis, San Diego, April: 

 graptoderoides , Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles: 

 tejonicus, described from Tejon: loripts occurs in Tulare 

 County, schwarzii and longulus are found in the north, 

 and decipiens at Yreka. 



Trachyscelida. T. bicolor, Yuma. 



