COLEOPTERA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 235 



with it in collections. For its discovery we are in- 

 debted to Mr. Frederick Blanchard of Tyngsboro, 

 Mass., who finds it not uncommon on pitch pines in 

 his vicinity. 



45. Languria calif ornica, sp. nov. 



Elongate, parallel, greenish black, head and prothorax red. Antennal 

 club five-jointed, head moderately punctate. Prothorax longer than 

 wide, sides feebly rounded, a little more strongly so in front, subsinuate 

 before the hind angles; surface strongly, rather numerously punctate, 

 basal striolae short, distinct. Elytra rather deeply punctate striate, inter- 

 vals somewhat convex, each with a more or less regular line of excessively 

 fine and indistinct punctures bearing very fine short hairs. Beneath 

 rather sparsely but strongly punctate throughout. 



Length, 6.5 mm. 



One example taken at Redondo, in April, on Astrag- 

 alus crotalarce. 



L. convexicollis, the only other Californian species of 

 the genus, is much larger, with more convex thorax, 

 six-jointed antennal club, and generally feebler sculp- 

 ture. L. californica may be placed between L. convex- 

 icollis and L. Iceta. 



46. Hister simplicipes, sp. nov. 



Not very robust, black, polished; impunctate above, except along the 

 basal margin of the thorax; elytra dark red at sides and in a subapical 

 transverse line which is interrupted at suture. Thorax not fimbriate, in- 

 ternal lateral stria complete, external scarcely reaching the middle. 

 Elytra with three entire dorsal striae^ fourth short, apical; fifth repre- 

 sented by two or three small punctures near the apex; sutural stria 

 extending in front of t.he middle; oblique humeral fine, subhumeral 

 wanting. Propygidium moderately coarsely, densely punctate; pygid- 

 ium densely punctate at base, nearly smooth at apex, which is strongly 

 indexed. Mesosternum moderately emarginate; anterior tibiae without 

 spines or teeth except the apical, which is not very strongly bifid; hind 

 tibise bispinulose. 



Length, 4 mm. 



A single example in the writer's collection is from 

 San Diego County. 



