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Show 298 described by saying that the elytra are pale, with a side margin, and the apical fourth black; the black extends narrowly along the suture nearly to the middle, and from the side margin proceeds an oblique stripe ending behind the middle, midway between the lateral edge and the suture; the tips of the elytra are separately rounded and feebly serrate. NOTOXUS, Fabr. 10. N. digitaius.- Elongate, brownish testaceous, clothed with fine pubescence and with many intermixed fine, long hairs. Head finely punctured, obliquely narrowed behind the eyes, truncate at base; hind angles rounded. Prothorax globose, finely punctulate; horn in front deeply concave, with but five large rounded teeth, one apical and two on each side; hind part of horn suddenly elevated; summit narrow, acutely margined, and with the edge not serrate. Elytra very finely punctulate, paler, with two irregular dusky bands connected by a longitudinal dusky line; tip subtruncate; sutural angle rounded. Length, 3°"" = 0.12 incn. One specimen, Southern Colorado. This species is allied to N. serratus, but the horn is quite different by the small number of teeth, and the form of body is less elongate. 1 have several other new species of this genus from the interior regions of the continent, and they would well repay the labor of preparing a revision and synoptic table, MACROBASIS, Lee. 11. M. murina, Lee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil., 1833, p. 344 ( Cantharis).- Several specimens of both sexes were found in Northern New Mexico; the males are quite similar to the two collected by me at Lake Superior, and which were considered by Dr. Horn as a variety of M. unioolor. The females, however, differ from that species by the second joint of the antennie being bat little shorter than the first, and nearly equal to the next two united. I am not prepared to say that this is a difference of specific value, for there are in several parts of the Meloide family indications of a flexibility of structure which we are not yet prepared to account for. Catalogue of the Coleoptera collected by the explorations during 1875. The collections were made in two parts of the country surveyed, which are so distant as to have but little zoological relation. I have therefore thought it more useful to prepare two separate lists; the first containing those species collected in California as far east as the Mohave Desert and as far north as Santa Barbara. Small collections from Santa Cruz Island are included, and do not exhibit anything peculiar or previously unknown. The second list contains species found in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico, mostly from the eastern foot- hills of the Rocky Mountains. Fourteen specimens were collected by Lieut. W. L. Carpenter on Taos Mountain, at an elevation of 13,000 feet. Three of them are new, but are found at lower elevations, and do not specially indicate arctic or subarctic affinities. These fourteen species are marked with an * in the following list. I.- Califomian Coleoptera. B. Santa Barbara. Cr., Santa Crnz Island. M, Mohave Desert and Colorado River. Omophron dentatum Cr I Dermestes talpinus Cr Calosoma semiloeve Bi vulpinus B canceilatum B • Helichus product us , M Lebia cyanipennis M Calathus raficollis Si ruficollis, var Cr, B Platynus brunneo- marginatus Cr, B maculicollis M Pterostichns, n. sp.? ( race of vicinus?) B vicinns B laetulus Tropisternus californicus Cr, M Hyitrocharis glaucus Cr Philhydrus normatns Tejon perplexns Tejon. Necropharus guttula B Silpha ramosa B, M lapponica B Amara californica Cr , TQhuiendoiipiBin euxsp plaicntautsu s S. Call Chlaenius tricolor M | Philonthus canecens B Ani8odactylus consobrinns Cr i Sinodendron rugosum B Beinbidium Mannerheimii Cr, B | Atsenius Btercorator M Hippodamia vittigera B, Cr, M Pleetrodes Carpenteri M ambigua M j Cyclocephala birta M convergens I longula M Coccinella californica Dichelonycha pusilla B ° syllobora taedata M I Anorus piceus M |
