April-June, I920 Bulletin Brooklyn Entomological Society 45 



Leptura vexatrix Mann. 



This species and L. quadrillum Lee. are merely northern and 

 southern races of the same thing, quadrillum being the darker 

 phase restricted to Washington, Oregon, and northwestern Cali- 

 fornia, vexatrix, the lighter form of the more inland portions of 

 northern California. They grade gradually into each other. 

 Vexatrix has priority over quadrillum. 



Encyclops calif ornicus n. sp. 



Castaneous, prothorax somewhat rufous, upper side of head and apices 

 of middle and hind tibiae and tarsi piceous. Head moderately finely, 

 closely punctate, clothed with a very fine, short and sparse pubescence; 

 antennse slightly longer than body. Prothorax distinctly and closely punc- 

 tate at sides, slightly less at base and apex, and almost smooth on disc, with 

 a well-defined median longitudinal sulcus extending two thirds distance 

 forward from base, lateral tubercles rounded and prominent, the prothorax 

 distinctly broader through them than at base. Elytra three and a half 

 times as long as broad, broadest at base, sides gradually convergent to 

 apex, apices broadly rounded, disc flattened, rather coarsely and closely 

 punctate, more finely apically and clothed with fine, short, and sparse hair. 

 Beneath very finely punctured and pubescent. Length 9.5 mm., breadth 

 2.25 mm. 



Type, a male in my collection, collected by myself in the Cafion 

 near Lagunitas, Marin Co., CaL, June 4, 191 1. Only one other 

 specimen has been seen, a specimen in the Horn collection in the 

 Philadelphia Academy, placed close to Leptura quadricollis Lee. 



This species as far as generic characters and facies are con- 

 cerned is typically an Encyclops, but it differs greatly specifically 

 from E. coeriileus Say by being generally larger, of an entirely 

 different color, by being distinctly though finely pilose, and by 

 having the punctures less sharply defined. It is the first member 

 of the genus to be found on the Pacific Slope. 



Liopus barbarus n. sp. 



Form robust, densely clothed above with cinereous pubescence, the 

 elytra clouded with darker and lighter bands and spotted with black. 

 Head cinereous, flat; the antennae reaching several joints beyond the apex 

 of the elytra and with the joint's annulated at tip with black, the third joint 

 long, the fourth slightly shorter, the fifth still shorter, and the sixth to 

 the eleventh gradually shorter and narrower. Prothorax one third broader 

 than long, surface cinereous with two darker spots on either side of 

 middle, the sides with a prominent tubercle the greater portion of which 



