Abstract

The present paper deals largely with the abundance of material gathered during recent years in the collections of the California Academy of Sciences and the author, from the comparatively little known regions of the Western and Southwestern United States and Central Mexico. Appreciation is expressed to Dr. H. M. Parshley and Prof. W. S. Blatchley for information and material supplied by them, to Mr. E. P. Van Duzee for valuable assistance in working up the material as well as for permission to study the collection in his charge, and to several western Coleopterists, Dr. E. C. Van Dyke, Mr. R. L. Furniss, and Mr. E. G. Linsley, through whose field work so many of these interesting bugs have been collected. Dr. L. Bonar has very kindly determined the fungi.