HARPALIN/E 157 



impressions obsolete, the longitudinal stria fine, abbreviated at both 

 ends, the basal foveae small, punctate; elytra slightly wider than the 

 prothorax, almost three times as long as wide, parallel, moderately 

 rounded at tip, striate; striae 2-5-7 with rather distinct series of 

 punctures; intervals smooth, slightly convex. Length 6.2 mm.; 

 width 1.8 mm. Georgia elongatus Lee. 



The description of elongatus is taken from the original; it is said 

 to be very rare; hylacis however, is frequently taken, although not 

 very common. The head does not differ much sexually, but if 

 anything is a trifle larger in the female than in the male. 



Discoderus Lee. 



The genus Discoderus is represented by numerous species through- 

 out the temperate parts of North America but is wanting in the 

 true Pacific coast fauna. The body is oblong, rather strongly 

 convex as a rule, glabrous, the mental sinus edentate, the ligula 

 rather short and narrow, the paraglossse much exceeding it in 

 length, wide, thick and rounded at their apices, the palpi normally 

 slender, the second joint of the labial with about three long and 

 several short setae and equal in length to the third, making therefore 

 somewhat of an approach to the second section of the subfamily 

 in this respect. The frontal foveae are very small and isolated, not 

 linear, the mandibles and eyes moderate and the antennae slender 

 but not unusually long. The hind angles of the prothorax are 

 invariably rounded, the elytral striae more or less fine, the second, 

 fifth and seventh with a series of small setigerous punctures, the 

 outer series of foveae broadly interrupted as a rule and the scutellar 

 stria distinct. The two anterior tarsi of the male are scarcely at 

 all dilated and have two series of minute inconspicuous squamules 

 beneath. Our species, which are frequently closely allied among 

 themselves, may be described as follows: 



Prothorax more strongly transverse, nearly one-half wider than long. 

 Form parallel, rather convex, shining, black, with subaeneous or 

 feeble viridi-aeneous lustre, the under surface and legs blackish- 

 piceous, the antennae ferruginous; head nearly two-thirds as wide 

 as the prothorax, the slender antennae extending well behind the 

 latter, which is parallel and evenly arcuate at the sides, with very 

 broadly rounded basal angles, the base medially feebly bisinuate; 

 surface with shallow subpunctiform basal foveae, behind which and 

 near the sides there are some evident punctures; basal stria entire, 

 the margin thicker medially; median stria fine but distinct; elytra 



