June. 1 01 3 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 11 



Rare or New Coleoptera from California. 



In a consignment of beetles from E. P. Van Duzee, col- 

 lected near San Diego, were six Atimia dorsalis Lee. They were 

 beaten from cypress on the "Mesa," about 200 feet altitude. 

 Freshly emerged and pinned promptly, the long pubescence of 

 the elytra, which constitutes the maciilation, makes them strik- 

 ingly different from the usual worn specimens. The species 

 shows great variableness in size and maculation. 



In a lot of beetles received from the slope of Mt. Shasta 

 there was a Leptura not readily referable to any known species. 

 Two more were found in a Sonoma County lot and still another 

 came to light in the collection of L. H. Joutel, from Verdi, Nev. 

 All were males. Head and thorax were black; elytra straw 

 color, except for a black cross running two-thirds of the length 

 and all of the width of the elytra. The specimens were shown 

 to Col. Casey and Chas. Schaeffer, who called them after delibera- 

 tion, L. laetifica Lee. Examination of every structure shows com- 

 plete correspondence with the typical black laetifica. Not only 

 are there interaiediates but Mr. Schaeffer has one with the elytra 

 wholly straw colored, which was for a long time confused with 

 L. circumdata. Aj^parently the males of this common Pacific 

 species vary as much in color and pattern as do the L. vagans 

 of the East, with all gradations from straw to black. 



From Sonoma County and Mt. Shasta came also six speci- 

 mens of a Corymhites which do not accord with any seen so far. 

 I retain three and have given a specimen to Messrs. Leng, Schaef- 

 fer and Joutel. For this species I propose the name, joutelii n. sp. 

 Some are unicolorous, others with thorax a shade or two darker 

 than the elytra. Length about 15 mm. Slightly shorter than 

 pyrrhos in the thorax, almost exactly equal in the elytra. The 

 thorax is not quadrate, like pyrrhos, and is a third shorter in 

 comparison to width. Apical angles of thorax like pyrrhos, but 

 the whole thorax tapers with a pronounced curve on the forward 

 third. There are a pair of large, distinct depressions on the 

 thorax just forward of the posterior margin, and long shallow 

 depressions near the side margins. Pubescence on disk of thorax 

 not uniformly distributed — less abundant on middle than on 

 sides — longer, grayer, less golden than pyrrhos. Scutellum 



