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Daptini, with which tribe it confessedly does not harmonize very 

 well in facies. 



Pharalus n. gen. 



In this genus the habitus is peculiar, but more remindful of 

 Cratacanthus than of Harpalus, where it now rests in our lists; 

 the type was originally described by LeConte under the name 

 Pangus testaceus, because of the absence of a mentum tooth; the 

 tooth may however be wholly wanting or present in the form of a 

 short though decided arcuate projection, being thus variable in- 

 dividually. The humeri are sharply denticulate. The only known 

 species may be described as follows : 



Body oblong, stout, parallel, strongly convex, very shining throughout 

 and pale testaceous-yellow in color, without darker shading of any 

 sort, the elytra highly polished in both sexes; head three-fifths as 

 wide as the prothorax, with large and prominent eyes, the antennae 

 stout, not quite extending to the thoracic base; mandibles stout, 

 the left much, the right scarcely at all, produced inward at apex; 

 frontal foveae small, sharply defined and deep; prothorax three-fifths 

 wider than long, the sides broadly and feebly rounded, slightly con- 

 verging and broadly, barely visibly sinuate posteriorly, the angles 

 right and very sharp; base strongly margined, feebly sinuate- 

 truncate, a little wider than the apex, which is broadly sinuate, 

 with widely rounded angles; surface broadly convex, smooth, the 

 side margins rather coarsely reflexed, more broadly so and deplanate 

 basally, sparsely punctured throughout, the foveae short, sublinear, 

 deeply impressed and punctate, separated from the deplanate 

 angles by a smooth convex surface; median stria fine but evident 

 except apically; elytra oblong, fully one-half longer than wide, very 

 little wider than the prothorax, obtuse at apex, the sinus vestigial, 

 subrectilinear; striae not coarse but very deeply impressed, the scu- 

 tellar long and strong, joining the first; lateral foveae small, the dorsal 

 completely wanting; anterior and middle tarsi (cf ) well dilated and 

 inferiorly squamose, the posterior slender, with the first four joints 

 decreasing very slowly, the first much shorter than the fifth. Length 

 (o 71 9 ) 9.8-10.7 mm.; width 3.8-4.3 mm. Illinois, Iowa and Mis- 

 souri. [Pangus testaceus Lee.] testaceus Lee. 



It is very difficult to understand just how to dispose of some of 

 the so-called aberrant Harpalids of LeConte and Horn, especially 

 those which I have here assigned to the genera Glanodes, Opadius 

 and Pharalus. They all have accessory abdominal setae, as in the 

 fraternus group of Harpalus, with which they undoubtedly have a 

 close affinity, and I have separated them more because of pro- 



