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narrowed anteriorly, slightly serrulate along margins; surface 

 sparsely clothed with short, erect hairs on disk, the hairs long toward 

 sides and anterior margin, densely, coarsely granulose, the granules 

 on basal half strongly elevated and distinctly separated from one 

 another, apical half with a number of broad, short, strongly elevated 

 teeth, which are broadly rounded at apices and widely separated along 

 anterior margin. 



Elytra at base subequal in width to pronotum at basal third ; surface 

 coarsely, densely, irregularly punctate, the punctures on disk not so 

 wide as intervals, rather densely clothed with fine, long and short hairs 

 intermixed, the long hairs on basal half of disk at least twice as long 

 as diameter of punctures, intervals on disk smooth, without distinct 

 granules ; apical declivity coarsely, irregularly punctate. 



Abdomen beneath coarsely, sparsely, shallowly punctate, sparsely 

 clothed with moderately long, recumbent, yellowish hairs. 



Length 2.75-4.5 mm., width 1-1.5 mm. 



Type locality. — Laramie, Wyo. ; type in the Casey Collection in the 

 United States National Museum. 



Distribution. — From material examined: 



Arizona: Flagstaff, July 7 (Barber and Schwarz) ; July 30, 1904 (J. L. Webb). 



Williams, July 24 (Barber and Schwarz) ; September 3, paratype, Winslow 



(H. F. Wickham). Palmerlee, Cochise County, July (Chas. Schaeffer). 



Bright Angel Camp, altitude 6,900 ft., July 15 (H. F. Wickham). Walnut, 



July 20, paratype. 

 California : Twin Lakes, Mono County, 1931 (R. E. Blackwelder). 

 Colorado: Colorado Springs, June 15-30, 1896, altitude 6,000-7,000 ft. (H. F. 



Wickham). Ute Pass (A. B. Champlain). No locality (Hubbard and 



Schwarz ) . 

 Montana: Kalispell, June 13-20 (H. F. Wickham). 



New Mexico: Las Vegas Hot Springs, August 8 (Barber and Schwarz). 

 South Dakota: Elmore, July 7, 1902 (J. L. Webb). Lead, September 1, 1899. 

 Wyoming: Yellowstone National Park, September (H. F. Wickham). Laramie, 



type. 

 British Columbia : Kokanee Mountains, August 10, 1903, collected on snow, 



altitude 9,000 ft. (R. P. Currie). 



Host. — This species has been reared from Pinus edulis collected in 

 Colorado by A. B. Champlain. 



Casey described this species from three specimens, the type from 

 Laramie, Wyo., and paratypes from Williams and Walnut, Ariz. 



Stephanopachys conicola, new species 



Uniformly dark reddish brown, the antennae, palpi, and legs 

 slightly paler. 



Head with front and clypeus rather coarsely granulose, sparsely 

 clothed with rather short, recumbent, yellowish hairs, the clypeus 

 glabrous, and finely, densely granulose along anterior margin; men- 

 turn feebly, broadly lobed in front. 



Pronotum strongly, uniformly convex, not gibbose in front of 

 scutellum, widest near middle; sides broadly rounded, finely, irreg- 

 ularly serrulate along margins; surface sparsely clothed with short, 

 inconspicuous, erect hairs on disk, the hairs long toward sides and 

 anterior margin, densely, coarsely granulose, the granules on basal 

 half strongly elevated and distinctly separated from one another, 

 apical half with numerous broad, strongly elevated teeth, which are 

 longer, narrowly rounded at apices, and sometimes contiguous at bases 

 along anterior margin. 



