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By Casey's table this species would be associated with mon- 

 tanus and balteatus. From the latter it may at once be distin- 

 guished by the presence of the intermixed erect hairs of the 

 elytra, and from the former by the unmodified elytral apices in 

 the female. 



Notoxus breviusculus n. sp. Size small, form rather stout, especially in 

 the female; dusky testaceous, elytra with a more or less bilunate black 

 fascia at, or a little behind, the apical third, each with a scutellar spot and 

 an antemedian lateral spot, both rather small, and in the darker specimens 

 rather indistinctly outlined or even diffusely connected. Surface dis- 

 tinctly shining; vestiture rather fine; abundantly intermixed with moder- 

 ately long suberect hairs. Antennae scarcely longer than the head and 

 prothorax, distinctly though not strongly incrassate apically, the tenth 

 joint not, or but slightly, longer than wide. Head and prothorax sparsely 

 very finely punctate ; eyes rather small, subequal in length to the tempora. 

 Horn narrow, feebly constricted basally, at its widest part scarcely one 

 fourth the width of the prothorax, its margin moderately refiexed, even; 

 crest well defined, nondentellate. Prothorax transversely globose. Elytra 

 three* fourths longer than wide, becoming gradually widest behind the 

 middle, more noticeably so in the female ; apices in the male separately 

 obliquely truncate, the external angle subdentiform ; in the female broadly 

 conjointly subtruncate, the sutural angles nearly rectangular. Body be- 

 neath varying in color from testaceous to piceous, finely punctate and 

 pubescent as usual. Last ventral of the male narrowly truncate at tip, 

 and with a rounded or subtransverse impression before the apex; in the 

 female with the tip subangulate and not impressed. 



Length 2.3-2.8 mm. ; width .85-1 mm. 



California, Plumas Co. and Eldorado Co. (Nunenmacher) ; Tallac 

 (Fenyes). The type is a male from Plumas Co. 



This species may be placed near nevadensis m Casey's table, 

 some examples of which it closely agrees with in its elytral mark- 

 ings. It is a smaller species than nevadensis, with relatively 

 shorter elytra, and with much narrower non-dentellate pronotal 

 horn. 



Notoxus pallidus n. sp. Elongate, testaceous, elytra each with a small 

 suboval discal fuscous spot at about the apical two fifths. Pubescence 

 abundantly intermixed with long erect hairs ; integuments finely evenly 

 not densely punctate, moderately shining. Antennae about half as long as 

 the body, feebly incrassate, the tenth joint nearly one half longer than 

 wide. Eyes rather large, distinctly longer than the tempora. Prothorax 

 subglobular, the horn (c?) less than one third the thoracic width, about 

 twice as long as wide, not constricted at base, narrowed from apical third, 



