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riorly; antennse three fourths length of body, rather robust and pilose 

 (decidedly more robust than in cyanipennis or ruficoUis). Prothorax as 

 broad as long, sides bluntly tuberculate at middle, dilated near apex, nearly 

 straight and oblique from middle to base, disc shining, with a few fine 

 punctures, fairly pilose and with the usual two blunt tubercles. Elytra 

 more than twice as long as broad, slightly broader posteriorly, sides almost 

 parallel, ibroadly rounded at apex, disc quite flat, smooth and shining toward 

 base, finely rugose and subopaque at apical two thirds, rather finely sparsely 

 punctate, the punctures distinct over basal area and more and more indis- 

 tinct toward apex, clothed with moderately dense suberect pile. Beneath 

 with anterior coxse distinctly separated (much more so than in either 

 cyanipennis or ruficoUis), middle coxse as widely separated as usual, the 

 surface shining, very minutely and sparsely punctate, moderately pilose, 

 and with the ventral segments as distinctly modified and of the same type 

 as in the other members of the genus. Length 9.5 mm., breadth 3 mm. 



Type, a female in my own collection, collected in the moun- 

 tains of Placer Co., California. Three specimens, likewise 

 females, which I have designated as paratypes, have been loaned 

 to me for purposes of study by Mr. Ralph Hopping, after whom 

 I take pleasure in naming it. Two of these, one from the Giant 

 Forest, collected July, 1905, and the other from Kaweah, Cal., alt. 

 6,000 ft., collected June 18, are 11 mm. in length, the third from 

 Kaweah, Cal., collected June 7, is but 8 mm. in length. All are 

 fairly constant as to coloration and structure. 



This species when compared with the other members of the 

 genus, is seen to be not only more robust and of a different type 

 of coloration, but more pilose, to have heavier antennse, much less 

 distinctly punctate elytra, and to have the prosternum between 

 the anterior coxse almost as wide as is the mesosternum between 

 the second pair of coxse. This last character taken in connection 

 with some of the minor peculiarities might seem to be sufficient 

 to justify its being placed in a new genus but the sum of the 

 major characters are absolutely those of Callimus therefore I 

 deem it wise to place it there. 



Obrium californicum n. sp. 



Castaneous, shining, very sparsely and finely pilose. Head about two 

 thirds width of elytra, eyes moderately prominent, but widely separated 

 above, the distance equalling one half the width of base of head [almost 

 twice as widely separated as in rufulum Gahan (rubrum Newm.)] ; antennse 

 longer than body in male and fully as long in female. Prothorax one 



