Goleopterological Notices, VII. 345 



A subspecies of obsoleta, represented before me by two males 

 from Tort Wingate, New Mexico, and from an unrecorded locality 

 in Kansas, may be named microsticta ; it is nearly similar in 

 form and size to ohsoleta, but has the elytra still shorter and 

 broader, with the strife less impressed, the transverse lines feebler 

 and more approximate, with the punctures at the points of junc- 

 ture with the strise more pronounced ; there are three well marked 

 series of distinct though small, distant, steel-blue or violet foveolse 

 on each elytron. In the form and sculpture of the head and pro- 

 thorax it is similar to ohsoleta, but in the latter the foveolae of the 

 elytra are all but obsolete. 



Pimeliodes Walk, zivimermanni Lee. and striatula Lee, are 

 distinct species and should not be considered subspecies of luxata. 

 The first differs from the second in its larger size, broader form, 

 more pronounced elytral tubercles and much finer and closer 

 punctuation of the head and pronotum ; as shown by a good 

 series these characters are perfectly constant. The third differs 

 from either of the others in its deeper strige, more irregularly 

 interrupted intervals and less pronounced tubercles ; the sculp- 

 ture of the head and pronotum are nearly as in zimmerinanni. 



ELAPHRUS Latr. 



The following species is allied rather closely to Isevigatus, and 

 represents it in the middle coast regions of California. 



E. politlis n. sp. — Moderately narrow, convex, black and highly pol- 

 ished throughout, the legs dark ruf o-piceous ; head with but feeble traces of 

 metallic lustre at any part; depression near the basal angles of the prothorax 

 greenish, the foveolse of the elytra with a green or violaceous metallic reflec- 

 tion. Head scarcely as wide as the prothorax, nearly smooth on the convexi- 

 ties, finely punctate in the small depressions, of which there are two arranged 

 longitudinally on the median line of the vertex, one, punctiform, at each side 

 of the neck near the eye, and the usual feeble two on the front; vertex sepa- 

 rated from the neck by a sensible transverse impression ; labrum impressed 

 along the median line; antennae moderate. Prothorax slightly wider than 

 long, the sides strongly rounded, constricted before the base, the sides thence 

 divergent and straight to the basal angles, which are right and not in the least 

 blunt; base broadly, evenly arcuate; disk convex, smooth, impunctate except 

 in the sublateral basal depression; sublateral pit before the middle feeble, 

 slightly punctate ; impressed median line short between the vague transverse 

 angular impressions, which also have a few scattered punctures; under surface 

 minutely and densely punctured on the propleurse, the hypomera impunctate. 

 Elytra % longer than wide, nearly twice as wide as the prothorax, slightly 



