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STAPHYLINID.E. 



The members of the Aleocharini are very numerous, 

 but for the most part unstudied, and are consequently 

 much neglected by most collectors. 



Falagria. F. Iceviuscula is very common along the 

 margin of streams in the foot-hills: an undescribed 

 species occurred in the San Bernardino Mountains (ele- 

 vation 5,000 feet): cavipennis was described by Le Conte 

 from San Pedro: occidua and laticollis are described 

 from a little south of San Francisco (Santa Clara 

 County). 



Echidnoglossa. Several species occur in the wet moss 

 in mountain canons; some of these are probably the 

 same as some of the following species described by 

 Casey from the middle and northern portions of the 

 State, viz., valida, eximia, brevicornis, gracilis, grandi- 

 collis. 



Hoplandria. A. species referred with some doubt to 

 this genus was taken in the Ojai Valley in March. 



Pontomalota. P. opaca is usually plentiful on the 

 sands of ocean beaches: californica and nigriceps are 

 closely allied forms found at San Francisco and Santa 

 Cruz. 



Colpodota. C. parva is said by Fauvel to occur at 

 Mariposa. 



Atheta. This genus will contain many of the species 

 hitherto lumped under Homalota. The species are 

 numerous, and while no special effort has been made to 

 collect them there are in my collection some twenty or 

 thirty species from Southern California. A. picipennis, 

 Mann, and oraria and coriaria, Kraatz, are mentioned 

 by Hamilton and Fauvel as having been found in Cali- 

 fornia. 



