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Distribution, — From material examined : 



Arizona: Miller's Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, October 6, 1909 (H. A. Kaeber). 



California: Various localities throughout the State. 



Oklahoma : Oklahoma City, March 16, 1942, boring in a table leg. 



Oregon: Rogue River, September 17, 1913, (W. D. Edmonston). 



Tennessee : Memphis, June 20, 1933, boring in a redwood dresser (G. C. Brown). 



Texas : Ysleta, June 30, 1933, boring in a mahogany table (C. A. King). 



Utah: Ogden ; Eureka, July 26 (Tom Spalding). 



Wyoming : Evarston, June 15, 1885. 



Hosts. — It has been reared from prune and hickory, and has been 

 reported as pruning twigs. Herbert (1920) reported it as breeding 

 in California laurel, coast live oak, madrone, and manzanita, and at- 

 tacking the branches of almond and Eucalyptus globulus. 



LeConte (1853) described stoutii as the genotype of his new genus 

 Alloeocnemis and he (1857) described ovicollis, placing it in the genus 

 Exops, both species being from San Francisco, Calif. Horn (1878) 

 placed ovicollis in synonymy as the female of Polycaon stoutii. 



Polycaon punctatus LeConte 



Polycaon punctatus LeConte, 1866, Smithsn. Inst. Misc. Collect. 167: 102-103; 



Horn, 1878, Amer. Phil. Soc. Proc. 17 : 552, 553 ; Lesne, 1896, Soc. Ent. de France 



Ann. 65: 112, 114; 1938, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 161, p. 27; Belkin, 



1940, Ent. News 51: 193. 

 Polycaon puoescens LeConte, 1866, Smithsn. Inst. Misc. Collect. 167: 102; Horn, 



1878, Amer. Phil. Soc. Proc. 17 : 552, 553. 



Female. — Elongate, moderately depressed and shining, uniformly 

 pale reddish brown. 



Head in front slightly narrower than pronotum at apical fourth, 

 convex behind eyes, finely, rather densely, uniformly granulose, 

 sparsely clothed with long, erect and recumbent, blackish hairs ; cly- 

 peus broadly, obsoletely depressed at middle, rather shallowly, arcu- 

 ately emarginate in front. Antenna 11-segmented, with a few long, 

 erect hairs ; third segment subequal in length to fourth ; f unicle slightly 

 shorter than club. 



Pronotum widest at apical fourth, broadly, feebly, transversely de- 

 pressed along anterior jnargin ; sides broadly rounded anteriorly, 

 obliquely narrowed posteriorly; surface coarsely, confluently punctate 

 at middle, rather densely granulose at sides, sparsely clothed with 

 short, recumbent, brownish hairs, with a few long, erect, blackish hairs 

 intermixed. 



Elytra at base distinctly wider than pronotum, arcuately declivous 

 posteriorly; sides parallel, broadly conjointly rounded at apices; sur- 

 face finely, sparsely punctuate, sparsely clothed with short, inconspic- 

 uous, recumbent, blackish hairs. 



Body beneath sparsely clothed with long, erect hairs, which are 

 shorter and more recumbent on abdomen ; prosternum coarsely granu- 

 lose or rugose ; abdomen finely, densely punctuate. 



Length 10 mm., width 2.6 mm. 



Type locality. — Of punctatus, Lower California; type in the Ulke 

 Collection in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. Of pubescent, 

 Cape San Lucas, Lower California ; type in the LeConte Collection in 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



Distribution. — Lower California!! Only a single female has been 

 examined, which is in the Hubbard and Schwarz Collection, in the 

 United States National Museum, and simply labeled "Cal." 



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