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suture though close at its posterior border, a wedge of black 

 separating the two portions, but reaching the side margin and ex- 

 tending in a narrow band forwards along the margin to humeral 

 spots. Abdomen rufous. Slightly shining. Head, pronotum and 

 elytra with moderate covering of rather long erect black hair and 

 with a shorter and denser semi-erect black pile beneath, this latter 

 changing to white on the red areas, legs and under side with a 

 sparse covering of long gray hair, and a transverse bar of short 

 gray pubescence near apex of elytra, this extending backwards 

 along suture to apex. Head including the eyes, narrower than the 

 thorax, moderately closely and coarsely punctured. Thorax about 

 as broad as long, narrower than the elytra, disc rather finely, 

 closely and rugosely punctured. Elytra about twice as long as 

 broad, with prominent humeri, sides straight and parallel to beyond 

 middle, then gradually rounded to truncate apex, surface granu- 

 lose, puctures very fine on black areas, coarse and sparse on red. 

 Beneath rather coarsely and sparsely punctured forwards and very 

 finely on abdomen. 



Length 7 mm., breadth, 2.5 mm. 



Type in my own collection. 



Type locality Carmel, Monterey County, Cal. 



Beaten from the Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa 

 Gord.), by Mr. L, S. Slevin. Also beaten from Sargent's cypress 

 {Cupressus sargenti Jepson), on Cypress Ridge, near Fairfax, 

 Marin Co., Cal., by myself. Ten specimens have been seen. This 

 beetle no doubt lives both in the larval and adult stage upon the 

 bark beetles, particularly Phloeosinus cupressi Hopk., and their 

 larvae. 



There is a slight amount of variation in the color pattern as is 

 usual. The median red markings almost meet in one specimen. It 

 resembles superficially Enoclerus eximius Mann. It however is, 

 in general, proportionately broader and stouter, with sides of 

 elytra more parallel, the surface generally rougher though with 

 the punctures less evidently defined except on the red patches, the 

 black color of the elytra of a bluish black instead of a coal black, 

 the markings of a richer orange red and the median patches not 

 meeting at the suture as is the general rule in the other, where 

 they not only meet but send an extension backwards along the 



