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phanously pale, the elytral suture finely rufescent posteriorly; under 

 surface black, the legs piceo-testaceous; head short, wider than long, 

 fully two-thirds as wide as the prothorax, with rather prominent 

 eyes; antennae slender, blackish, with the two basal joints pale; 

 rather more than half as long as the body (cf ), a little shorter (9 ); 

 prothorax two-fifths wider than long, parallel, with subevenly and 

 moderately rounded sides; apex slightly sinuate, with rather blunt 

 angles and as wide as the base to distinctly narrower, the basal angles 

 broadly rounded; surface nearly as in the preceding; elytra one-half 

 longer than wide, barely a fourth wider than the prothorax, the 

 outline somewhat as in the preceding; intervals only feebly convex 

 suturad; scutellar stria moderately long and subparallel but very 

 fine; male with the anterior tarsi rather strongly, the intermediate 

 moderately dilated. Length (c? 9 ) 3-7~3-9 mm.; width 1.4 mm. 



Pennsylvania scitulus Csy. 



A Nearly like scitiilus in color and general structure but shorter, the 

 head smaller, with less prominent eyes, barely three-fifths as wide 

 as the prothorax; antennae nearly similar; prothorax relatively 

 much smaller but otherwise similar, though only a third wider than 

 long; elytra much shorter and relatively broader-, only a third longer 

 than wide, more broadly and obtusely rounded at apex and more 

 than two-fifths wider than the prothorax, otherwise nearly similar; 

 male tarsal characters nearly similar. Length (cf) 3-7 mm.; 

 width 1.45 mm. A single male, probably from New Jersey. 



incitatus n. subsp. 



Cincticollis Lee., is unknown to me and I have simply made use 

 of the originally published characters; it appears to be closely 

 allied to anceps. Fuscatus was considered to be an "immature 

 variety" of plebejus by LeConte, but I do not think that it has 

 exactly that status; it is a little broader in form, with shorter and 

 broader prothorax, which, in conjunction with the peculiar color- 

 ation as described above, will always enable one to separate it 

 readily from immature specimens of plebejus. Gracilis Csy., is 

 placed doubtfully under ochropezus in the table.* The only species 

 common to the Atlantic and Pacific faunal regions is conjunctus, 

 one example of which I took in the mountains of Humboldt Co., 



* The type of this species and of ten or twelve others in such genera as Bembidion, 

 Tachys, Amara, Colon and Lachnosterna, disappeared from my collection many years 

 ago and I have no idea where they are at present. They certainly do not appear to 

 be in the LeConte collection at Cambridge, Mass. Perhaps they may be found in the 

 Horn collection in Philadelphia, having been inadvertently left there after direct, 

 comparisons had been made. Gracilis is probably not the same as ochropezus, where it 

 was placed by Horn, and the smaller prothorax, longer elytra, and strongly convex 

 elytral intervals, would seem to prove conclusively that it cannot be abstinent of the 

 above table, though the geographic habitat is nearly the same. 



