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North Carolina, but another $ and, a $ from the latter 
locality have a single puncture apiece on one 4th interval. 
A $ from “Black Mts., N. C., VI. 1-15, 1912” has a total 
of 3 punctures on the 4th and 8th intervals; another $ 
with identical label has a total of 15. Specimens from near 
the top of Mt. Mitchell, N. C., usually have rather numer- 
ous punctures on the intervals in question, but seem to 
be otherwise hardly distinguishable from northern speci- 
mens, and the bristle character alone is so inconstant 
that I do not think a local race should be based on it. I 
therefore consider that there are only two reasonably dis- 
tinct subspecies of Sphseroderus canadensis: (1) S. cana- 
densis canadensis Chd. (palpalis Mots., hlanchardi Leng) 
which ranges from eastern Canada to the Black Mts. of 
northern North Carolina, and (2) S. canadensis lengi 
Dark, occurring in the mountains of southwestern North 
Carolina and adjacent parts of Tennessee and probably 
also in parts of Georgia and Alabama. 
