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of thirty-two specimens has been collected in Klamath County, 

 Oregon, by Mr. Nunenmacher. The specimens exhibit a 

 tendency to develop elytral tubercles as in granulata. This is 

 also the case in parvula, which should henceforth be recorded 

 as a race of vandykei. 



Specimens have recently been examined from Medicine 

 Lake, Siskiyou County, California; they were collected on 

 August 1 6th. 



Eleodes hornii Blai.s. 



Among specimens collected in Plumas and Eldorado Coun- 

 ties, California, by Mr. Nunenmacher, were nine examples of 

 this rare and distinct species. These agree every way with 

 the types as regards form, but present some variation in 

 punctuation and size. One male, however, agrees perfectly 

 with the type. In the other specimens the prothoracic and ely- 

 tral punctuation is slightly coarser, denser and more irregular 

 in distribution. In the types there is no evidence of a serial 

 arrangement of the elytral punctures, in four of those col- 

 lected by Mr. Nunenmacher there is. The largest male col- 

 lected in Eldorado County has a length of 14.5 mm., and a 

 width of 5.5 mm. The largest female and the one presenting 

 the greatest amount of variation in sculpturing, has a length 

 of 14.5 mm., and a width of 6.0 mm. In hornii the humeri 

 are absent and the elytra evenly oval. 



Eleodes hornii, var. monticula n. var. 



Opaque, form as in hornii. Prothorax smaller and more finely 

 punctured. Elytra more coarsely punctured, the punctures being some- 

 what eroded and at times sublineate in arrangement. The elytra are 

 less evenly oval, being just a little more produced at apex and the 

 latter more broadly rounded. 



In the male the humeri are slightly evident 



Monticula is more convex than is typical hornii. In the 

 monograph of the Eleodiini (Bull. 63, U. .S. Nat. Mus.) the 

 specimens now described were referred to hornii and collected 

 at Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, California, elev. 1300 

 ft. 



Type in the author's collection. 



