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Type locoUiy : Mokelumne Hill. Calaveras County, Cali- 

 fornia. 



Habitat: California (Calaveras County: — Mokelumne Hill, 

 April. Shasta County : — Castella, July. Tulare County : — 

 Cedar Creek, June; Rattlesnake Creek, July ( Hopping's col- 

 lection") ). 



Eleodes dentipes, var. perpunctata n. var. 



Sj'n. E. dentipes forma elongata punctata. 



Mr. Nunenmacber has quite recently collected an extensive 

 series of perpunctata (60 specimens), in Tehama, Butte and 

 Shasta Counties, California. The specimens are distinctly 

 homomorphic and represent a valid geographical race. At 

 the time that the Monograph of the Eleodiini was written, the 

 specimens referred to the elongate punctate form of dentipes, 

 came from several widely separated regions and were mixed 

 with other races and forms. 



There were no data to indicate that perpunctata was capable 

 of reproducing its characteristics with any degree of stability, 

 as has been proved by the above series. The forma elongata 

 laevis of the Monograph now becomes the smooth elongate 

 form of perpunctata. 



In perpunctata the elytra are more or less minutely granu- 

 lato-rugulose. more or less strongly punctate, with the punc- 

 tures in series. 



Type in the author's collection. 



Type locality : Placerville. Eldorado County. 



Habitat: California (Eldorado County: — Placerville. Teha- 

 ma County, April. Trinity County: — Haybrook, April, (Hop- 

 ping's collection). Contra Costa County: — Martinez. San Ma- 

 teo County: — San Jose). 



Eleodes gigantea Ivlann. 



A series of specimens taken in northern California by 

 Mr. Nunenmacher, answers to Mannerheim's description — 

 "Elytra finely granulato-punctate," and proves that the typical 

 form of gigantea is northern and not southern in habitat. 



The pronotal disk is rather less sparsely l^ut distinctly punctate. 



