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at the sides; surface scarcely densely punctate, punctures rather 

 coarse and eroded, irregular but exhibiting a feeble lineate arrange- 

 ment, subequal in size throughout, about the humeri and along the ar- 

 cuately declivous sides granulate, granules distinct, bright and shin- 

 ing. 



Epipleurae obsoletely and very sparsely punctate. 



Sterna. — Prosternum densely punctate, more or less longitudinally 

 grooved between the coxae, feebly mucronate at tip. Meso- and meta- 

 sterna densely punctate. 



Abdomen densely and not very finely punctate on segments i and 2, 

 third and fourth less so at middle and along the base, fifth more or 

 less impunctate; glabrous and shining at middle to base. 



Legs less stout than in producta. 



$ . Slightly more oblong, scarcely more depressed than the female. 

 Abdomen slightly flattened at middle of the first two segments and 

 feebly oblique. First two joints of the protarsi moderately thickened 

 at tip beneath and there clothed with rather long flavate pubescence; 

 tuft of the first joint larger than that of the second, both obliterating 

 the plantar groove; third joint without evidence of increased pubescence, 

 spinose on the margins of the groove, the latter smooth and shining. 

 First joint of the mesotarsi also has a small tuft at tip. 



$ . More or less oblong-ovate, somewhat broader. Abdomen more 

 convex at base. 



Measurements. Males. — Length, 11,0-16.0 mm.; width 5.0-6.4 mm, 

 Females — Length, 12.0-13.0 mm.; width, 5.5-6.0 mm. 



Habitat. — Oregon (Josephine County, June 8th). Cah- 

 fornia (Humboldt County, Del Norte County). 



Described from a series of 23 specimens. 



Types in my own collection. Collected by Mr. F. W. Nunen- 

 macher, who possesses paratypes. 



Type locality. — Del Norte County, California, 



Trita may have been distributed as forma opaca. Compared 

 with a newly collected series of 42 specimens of producta 

 Mann., and 280 specimens of constricta LeC, all collected by 

 Mr. Nunenmacher on the same trip. 



Eleodes papillosa n. sp. 



Syn. granulata forma tuberculata. 



During the summer of 191 3, Dr. E. C, \'an Dyke and ]\Ir. 

 L. R. Reynolds collected typical Eleodes granulata LeC. at 

 Carville. Trinity County, California. When the monograph of 

 the Eleodiini (Bull. 63, U. S. Nat. Mus.) was written no speci- 

 mens of typical granulata had been seen, and the author was 



