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iag rather rapidly in length, the cluh fusiform and densely pubescent, with 

 the first joint narrowed and glabrous at base. Prothorax moderate in size, 

 densely punctate, % wider than long, the sides moderately convergent and 

 broadly, almost evenly arcuate from base to apex, rather straighter and more 

 convergent near the latter ; apex transversely truncate. Elytra about 3^ longer 

 than wide, distinctly more than twice as long as the prothorax and fully % 

 wider, the outline narrowly and almost evenly ogival from base to apex, the 

 humeri only moderately exposed and subprominent ; strioe somewhat fine, 

 punctured, the intervals broad and nearly flat, subrugose and concealed by the 

 vestiture. Legs moderate in length and in degree of femoral dilatation. 

 Length 5.9-6.6 mm. ; width 2.8-3.1 mm. 



California (Sta, Cruz, Sonoma and Siskiyou Cos.). 



This species is somewhat allied to the eastern uniformis, but 

 differs in its smaller size, shorter form, very dense covering of 

 slender ochreous scales, shorter and less slender male antennal 

 funicle, with the scape in the female fully as long as the next 

 three joints combined, narrower and more acuminate fifth ventral 

 of the male, and in its entire habitus. The description is drawn 

 from the male, that sex having the abdomen distinctly impressed 

 medially at the base and the fifth segment very feebly impressed 

 and less pubescent toward the middle, with the apex concealed by 

 the long dense fulvous vestiture, the pygidium bristling with 

 long dense hairs as usual. The female is larger, nearly identical 

 in form but with a slightly larger prothorax, the beak | as long 

 as the body, the antennae inserted between basal third and fourth, 

 with the funicle longer and more slender and the club smaller and 

 shorter, and the fifth ventral parabolic and feebly impressed, be- 

 ing also less pubescent at the middle. The vestiture along the 

 €lytral suture is more prominent, dense and suberect except to- 

 ward base. 



B. undulatiis. — Stout, only moderately convex above, elongate-sub- 

 oval, dark in color; beak and antennae rufous, the former jnceous toward base; 

 vestiture dense, the scales long and slender, pale ochreous in color, variegated 

 on the elytra with well-defined but broken wavy bands of darker brown. 

 Head distinctly less than % ^s wide as the prothorax, the eyes separated by % 

 of their own width; beak moderately slender, almost evenly and rather 

 strongly arcuate, not quite as long as the elytra, the antennte inserted dis- 

 tinctly behind the middle; funicle slender, with the first four joints decreasing 

 rapidly in length, the club elongate-fusiform, densely pubescent, equal in 

 length to the first funicular joint, with the apices of the joints distinctly ex- 

 posed at the edges. Prothorax well developed, % wider than long, the sides 

 very feebly convergent and slightly arcuate to apical third, then more 

 rounded, convergent and subsinuate to the apex, which is feebly and angu- 



