Goleopterolugical Notices, VII. 315 



California (near San Francisco and Sta. Cruz). The intercoxal 

 plate of the mesosternum is large and irregular, transversely im- 

 pressed and with discontinuous side margin anteriorly, broadly 

 impressed along the middle and narrowly along each side poste- 

 riorly, emarginate behind ; there is some variation however in this 

 plate. Anterior tarsi of the male densely spongy-pubescent be- 

 neath, the pad of the first joint occupying apical half. The tj'^pes 

 of the above outline are three males from Oakland, immediately 

 opposite San Francisco, and the two accompanying females are 

 almost similar but larger and a little more ventricose. Female 

 examples are before me from the peninsula of San Francisco, 

 which are larger, with the elytra much more elongate and nar- 

 rowed more toward base and having the prothorax relatively 

 smaller and scarcely visibly wider than long. The Sta. Cruz 

 example also has a slightly diflferent aspect, and I have but little 

 doubt that there are some closely allied species involved in the 

 general material which we denominate striatopunctatus. The 

 strial punctures of the male are stronger than in the female as is 

 frequently the case. It is a common species, and large series from 

 carefully recorded localities would be valuable. 



7. B. OTalis Mots.— Bull. Mosc, 1859, ill, p. 162, pi. 3, fig. 11. 



Strongly ventricose, shining, the head and pronotum alutaceous; 

 frontal regions polished. Head stout, moderately elongate, with 

 a subobsolete transverse impression behind the eyes ; gense feebly 

 developed but with a rather large triangular nick ; supra-orbital 

 ridges fine and strongly elevated, deeper but not transversely 

 dilated above the antennae, the latter slender, f as long as 

 the body, gradually more slender and paler toward tip, the 

 basal joint moderate. Prothorax as long as wide and apparently 

 a little longer, feebly inflated with the sides broadly arcuate an- 

 teriorly, sinuate posteriorly, the sides parallel and straight in 

 more than basal sixth; angles right; base broad, more than 

 ^ the maximum width but barely as wide as the head ; disk 

 but very feebly convex, the impressions all feeble ; lateral reflexed 

 margin moderate. Elytra much inflated, strongly declivous 

 near the sides, much less convex broadly toward the middle, 

 less than ^ longer than wide, more than 3 times as long as 

 the prothorax and 2f times as wide, broadly elliptical, rather 

 full at the humeri, the reflexed margins moderate; striae very 



