HARPALIKLE 235 



surface with feeble violaceous reflection- under surface black or 

 nearly so, the legs pale testaceous; head almost as in the pieceding 

 but neaily three-fifths as wide as the prothorax; antennae rather 

 slender though somewhat strongly compressed, blackish, the two 

 basal joints pale; prothorax nearly one-half wider than long, through- 

 out as in lncid-ns, except that the sides are rather more strongly 

 arcuate; the very obtuse basal angle- are not only not rounded but 

 their apices are minutely prominent in the type; marginal bead of 

 the base narrowly interrupted at the middle; elytra shorter, two- 

 fifths longer than wide, a fourth wider than the prothorax, parallel, 

 with broadly arcuate sides and finely reflexed edges, the apex more 

 produced suturally, the sinus much stronger, rather deep; striae 

 extremely fine, shallow, not impressed, the scutellar oblique, feeble; 

 discal puncture fine, at three-fifths. Length (9) 5-5 mm.; width 

 2.2 mm. Mexico (Salazar, Mex.), Wickham. A single example. 



*sinuosus n. sp. 



Sinuosus may be allied to stenolo phoides Bates, but the basal 

 thoracic angles are said to be rounded in that species and the elytra 

 rufescent laterally. The Cloudcroft examples described by Fall as 

 turbatus, are exactly similar to the original type of Bradycellus 

 lucidus Csy., which is not alluded to by Fall in his article on the 

 Tachycellus-like genera, though plainly printed in the Henshaw list. 



Episcopellus n. gen. 



The type of this genus, the Feronia autumnalis of Say, has been 

 shifted back and forth from one tribe of the Harpalinae to another, 

 in a most unaccountable manner. It is plainly a Bradycellid as 

 maintained by LeConte, who however unfortunately placed two 

 true Harpalids with it, and, as the base of the prothorax is as 

 strongly and completely beaded here as in dichrous and vulpeculus, 

 he probably for that reason consented to have it leave Bradycellus 

 to go to Harpalus in company with those species. The body is 

 oblong, rather depressed, the head moderate and perfectly normal 

 in the tribe, except that the frontal fovese are obliquely prolonged 

 toward the eyes only for a short distance, and the labial palpi are 

 unusually long, slender, with the second and third joints equal, 

 the former bearing two long setae and one or two that are short and 

 inconspicuous. The third antennal joint is somewhat pubescent 

 in about outer half. The anterior male tarsi are very moderately 

 dilated, the intermediate feebly so and both have beneath two 

 approximate series of large elongate decumbent longitudinal 



