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longitudinal stripes commencing' back of the anterior margin, the 

 outer pair divergent, the inner pair uniting across the scutellum ; 

 elytral nervures light, apical cells fuscous margined in the male ; 

 face yellow, a spot above either antenna and about seven arcs on the 

 upper part of the front, fuscous. 



Genitalia: Female, ultimate ventral segment half longer than the 

 penultimate, outer angles rounded, a stout median process tipped 

 with two divergent teeth, either side of which is a narrow angular 

 emargination. Male, valve as broad as the ultimate segment and 

 about half as long, plates triangular, two-thirds the width ol the 

 valve and two and one half times as long, their margins straight or 

 slightly concave. 



Described from fifteen specimens taken from a damp moun- 

 tain meadow on the Little Beaver, Larimer county, Colorado, 

 at an elevation of 9,500 feet. 



NOTES ON EASTERN N. A. CYCHRUS. 



Geo. a Ehrmann, Pittsburg, Pa 



Cychrus nitidicollis Chev. 



I have taken this species but once in this locality, a single 

 specimen; I have, however, taken it several times at Charleroi, 

 Washington county, and received it from Fairmount, W Va. 

 All were found during the months of August and Septeml)er 



C. nitidicollis, var. brevoorti, Lee 



Of this extremely rare form I have found but one specimen, at 

 Charleroi, November 12, 1896, and since then have not happene<l 

 across it. 



C. stenostomus Web. 



I only found three specimens under dry leaves at base ol' beech- 

 nut tree, on September 4, 189G, and none since 



C. stenostomus, var. leconte<, Dej. 



The most abundant of the Cyhcri found in this section. 

 I have taken this form in every month of the year, sometimes 

 during January imbedded in ice. and holding these in ray hand, 

 the heat of which would soon resuscitate them. 



C. stenostomus, var bicarinatus, Lee 



I found one specimen only of this rather rare form on Septem- 

 ber 9, 1897. 



C. canadensis Chd. 



Is I'ecorded as being found at Pittsburg. I find, however, after 

 examining the collections in this section, that all specimens 

 are from Prof. Jerome Schmift. of St. Vincent's College, who 

 has frequently taken it at Chestnut Ridge, Cambria county. Pa. 



C. elevatus Fab 



This is also recorded as found in this section. The specimen 

 upon which the record in Hamilfons list of Coleopfera of 

 Western Pennsylvania, is based, giving the locality as Jean- 



