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elytra short, a third longer than wide, nearly one-half wider than 

 the prothorax, the sides evenly rounded; stride rather coarse, very 

 deep, the scutellar short though evident; intervals strongly convex; 

 anterior tarsi of the male only feebly dilated. Length (cf 9 ) 5-O- 

 5.7 mm.; width 2.3-2.6 mm. North Carolina (Black Mts.), Beu- 

 tenmiiller blanchardi Horn 



That so large a proportion of the above species should have been 

 taken in Indiana alone, shows that there are probably a consider- 

 able number of species in the genus. Those above denned are all 

 seemingly quite distinct among themselves, the only one to which 

 any doubt may attach being deficiens, but the type being a female 

 and much smaller and narrower than the male type of scolopaceus, 

 the general rule in the genus being just the opposite, together with 

 the radical differences in the scutellar stria, would seem to show that 

 we have to deal with two separate species. The thoracic base is 

 generally wholly unmargined, but a fine margin at each side appears 

 in honestus, and in blanchardi there is a strong and entire basal mar- 

 gin ; these differences are interesting to note in connection with the 

 variability of the basal margination in Leptoferonia. 



Anaferonia n. gen. 



The numerous species of this genus present a rather uniform 

 appearance superficially, leading LeConte to pronounce them "opin- 

 ionative," but a large number of them at least cannot be so regarded. 

 They form a somewhat discordant element in the Pterostichid ser- 

 ies, being considered a part of Molops and later of Evarthrus by 

 LeConte, but transferred to Pterostichus by Horn, where their pecu- 

 liar habitus causes them to stand out as a very inharmonious group. 

 The fact is that they form a distinct genus, allied much more closely 

 to Evarthrus than to Pterostichus. The body is convex and stocky 

 and generally polished in both sexes, but sometimes with opaque 

 elytra in the female. The head is well developed, the antennae not 

 very thick, and the fourth palpal joint is truncate and somewhat 

 shorter than the third as a rule. As shown in pimalis, the mentum 

 is peculiar in sloping steeply in about anterior half, the hind margin 

 of the slope forming a prominent line, the apex deeply sinuate and 

 the lobes rather narrowly rounded; the prosternal process is broad 

 and unmargined. The prothorax is abruptly sinuate and con- 

 stricted at the sides near the base, the hind angles sharp and more 



