HARPALIISLE 169 



Body much larger, very elongate, feebly convex, smooth and shining, dark 

 castaneous in color, the legs but little though sensibly paler. Male 

 with the head small, less than two-thirds as wide as the prothorax; 

 antennae slender, long, extending rather beyond the base of the pro- 

 thorax, obscure ferruginous, the basal joint barely as long as the 

 third though thicker; frontal impressions small, deep, sublinear, 

 isolated and at some distance from the apex of the epistoma, the 

 suture fine and rectilinear; eyes moderate, prominent; prothorax 

 fully one-half longer than wide, four-fifths as wide as the elytra, the 

 sides parallel, feebly and evenly arcuate, becoming moderately 

 convergent and sublinear or very feebly sinuate in basal two-fifths 

 to the broadly rounded angles; base sinuato-truncate, the marginal 

 groove interrupted medially; apex feebly sinuate, the angles broadly 

 rounded; surface even, with a very fine but entire median stria, the 

 basal impressions long, fine and linear, outwardly curved basally, 

 rather deep and more than a fourth the total length, punctured 

 throughout their length, the remainder of the surface impunctate; 

 elytra nearly four-fifths longer than wide, subparallel and very feebly 

 arcuate at the sides, gradually rounding behind in about apical 

 third, oblique but barely at all sinuate at apex; base broadly sinuate, 

 the humeri somewhat prominent basally but rounded; stria; very 

 deep, sulciform, impunctate, the scutellar long and deep, parallel, 

 the series ot marginal foveae broadly interrupted; legs remarkably 

 short, the tarsi rather thick, filiform, somewhat hairy above, the 

 basal joint of the posterior fully as long as the next two. Female 

 like the male but smaller and more abbreviated, differing in the 

 tarsi, as described above, the basal joint of the posterior also differing, 

 being notably longer than the next two; prothorax barely a fourth 

 longer than wide and relatively broader, being almost as wide as the 

 elytra though otherwise similar; head relatively much larger, fully 

 three-fourths as wide as the prothorax; antennae with the basal 

 joint longer, distinctly longer than the third. Length (cf ) 14.0, 

 (9) 11.7 mm.; width (c?) 3-7, (9) 3.2 mm. Texas (Fort Worth). 

 Four examples scolopax n. sp. 



4 Body very elongate, black, shining; front deeply bifoveate, sparsely 

 punctured laterally; prothorax more than twice as long as wide 

 [probably overstated], the sides broadly rounded, narrowed pos- 

 teriorly, at base at each side and before the base at the middle, 

 vaguely foveate; elytra slightly wider than the prothorax, truncate 

 at base, deeply striate, the intervals slightly convex. Length 17.2 

 mm. California (Sacramento?). [Description drawn from that of 

 LeConte (Rept. on Surveys, 1860, p. 28)] californicus Men. 



The interesting reversal of the usual sexual characters of the 

 Coleoptera in having the head larger, the prothorax broader and 

 the special sexual characters of the tarsi more developed, in the 

 female than in the male, as shown in scolopax, reveals itself re- 

 peatedly in this subfamily. In many species of true Harpalus I 



