1924] 
Some Notes on Cereyon 
251 
Mr. Liebeck and a single specimen from Wakefield, Mass, taken 
by myself. One of the Camden specimens is selected as the type; 
it bears date “xi-23.” 
From minusciilus the present species differs in being less 
broadly obtusely rounded behind; from both minusculus and 
granarius by the sharply limited apical pale area and the dis- 
tinctly alutaceous surface sculpture of the elytra; from opacellus 
by the non-alutaceous head and thorax, and distinctly punctate 
elytral interspaces, and from all allied forms by the more coarsely 
densely punctured sternal- areas. 
C. connivens is really by its polished head and thorax and 
alutaceous elytra more nearly allied to luguhris than to any of 
the above mentioned species, and perhaps most closely of all to 
suhsulcatus Ray of the European fauna. The latter however is 
said to have the 'elytral interspaces not or scarcely detectably 
punctate, which statement is not properly applicable to our 
species. 
Cereyon californicus new species. 
Oval, a little attenuate posteriorly, form nearly as in tristis 
but slightly less convex. Black, prothorax with either the entire 
side margin or (typically) with only a spot at the front angles 
paler; Elytra with a distinctly limited pale area which extends 
forward along the side margins at least to the middle, and 
often quite to the base. Head and thorax distinctly alutaceous, 
finely numerously punctate; elytra visibly but as a rule some- 
what less distinctly alutaceous than the thorax, striae fine 
and very lightly impressed, becoming obsolete just before 
the apex; interspaces sparsely punctulate, the punctures general- 
ly a little finer than those of the prothorax; eighth interspace 
uniserially punctured. Body beneath piceous, the epipleura 
paler in those examples in which the pale color of the ap»ex ex- 
tends forward to the humeri; legs reddish brown to piceous 
brown; palpi brown with the last joint darker; antennae rufo- 
testaceous, the cjub piceous. Mesosternal area evenly oval, 
twice as long as wide, rather coarsely punctured; metasternal 
area more finely sparsely punctate. 
