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common, the remainder rare or less abundant. Patrobus longi- 

 cornis was taken under stones in the same locality and with it 

 a lot of Plalynas erram and cupripennis. Plerostichus protrac- 

 tiis, P. luczotii, and CalatJms dubiuH were to be seen under logs 

 near the creek. Philophuga amxna was found about the roots 

 of yuccas. Cymlndls planipennis and Gratacanthus dubius were 

 rather plentiful beneath stones on dry sandy spots. One pair 

 of Chlmnius inter ruptm was taken in a very grassy little marsh. 

 They seemed to me hardly referable to that species but Dr. 

 Horn so decided. It was previously known from the Pacific 

 coast only, so its occurrence here is of much interest. Harpa- 

 lus ochropus, fallax, clandpMlnus, ohlitus and amputatus were tol- 

 erably abundant on open spots under rubbish and stones. 



A number of Coccinellidae were beaten from herbage, among 

 which may be mentioned Ilippodamia 5-dgnata, lecontei, con- 

 vergent, spuria and parenthesis, Cjceinella transversoguttata and 

 monticola, and Harmonia picta. Ejcochomus marginipennis and 

 variety cethiops occurred 03casioually but not in any abun- 

 dance. Of Brachyacantha we found a form of ursina closely ap- 

 proaching albifrons. Hyperaspis ^vittata occurred about roots 

 of plants. We also met with the Hyperaspidius mentioned in 

 my last paper, where I unfortunately, by a slip of the pen, 

 wrote of it as occurring with aphides on cacti. I should have 

 written with Coccidae. 



Elmis corpulentm was seen in small numbers in Cottonwood 

 Creek, clinging to submerged logs. Tripopitys punctatus was 

 met with*once, under a tie near the railroad track. Of Gorym- 

 bites planulus a few were taken from isolated stalks of rather 

 high grass, where they were resting in the fashion often ex- 

 hibited injthe East by Limonius griseus. Gardiophorus edwardsii 

 was beatenlfrom dwarf pines but wasquite rare. It is a western 

 beetle, previously known from Nevada and California. 



A great stack of telegraph poles, some of which were quite 

 recently cut, I waslpiled up just on the edge of the town. On 

 this pile, by careful search, we got quite a number of timber- 

 beetles of different families. In the Buprestida; we took Bup- 

 restis subornata and B. consularis, MelanopMla drummondi, 

 Ghrysobothris dentipes and Ghrysobothris trinervia. A couple of 

 G. ignicolli8\were taken at large. Podabrus lateralis was beaten 

 from herbage along the road leading to the base of Mt. Prince- 



