HARPALIN.E 195 



interrupted medially; surface with coarse sparse punctures apically 

 and laterally, which become scarcely at all smaller and very dense 

 latero-basally, the lateral gutter rather coarse, disappearing on the 

 flattened latero-basal area at about basal third, the foveae extremely 

 shallow and vague; elytra not quite one-half longer than wide, just 

 visibly wider than the prothorax, with parallel and feebly arcuate 

 sides and obtusely rounded apex, the sinus long and feeble but 

 evident, the striae fine but somewhat impressed, coarser and with 

 rather convex intervals suturally, the intervals elsewhere feebly 

 convex and all covered with rather dense confused punctuation, 

 each puncture bearing a short fulvous hair, the punctures coarse 

 suturally, finer elsewhere, the lateral line of foveae not at all inter- 

 rupted; discal puncture small, at three-fifths; hind tarsi slender, 

 sparsely hairy above, the basal joint nearly as long as the next three 

 combined, the second not quite as long as the fifth; abdomen finely, 

 sparsely punctulate throughout. Length (cf 9 ) 8.5-10.0 mm.; 

 width 3.0-4.0 mm. Long Island to Missouri. Abundant. [A. 

 fulvicollis Newm., Harpalus obscuripennis Dej. and Feronia inter- 

 stitialis Say] interstitialis Say 



This species was also omitted in the review of Dr. Horn mentioned 

 under Xestonotus, but sericeus Harr., was included. 



Pseudamphasia n. gen. 



While there is some similarity between this genus, also mono- 

 typic, and the preceding, due to the close punctuation and pubes- 

 cence, the structure of the ligula is so different as to indicate that 

 there is but little real affinity. The ligula is rather slender basally, 

 but rapidly and very broadly expands apically to the broadly 

 truncate apex; the paraglossae are narrower than in Amphasia and 

 narrowly rounded at tip. The terminal spur of the anterior tibiae 

 is simple and slender and the antennae of the male extend nearly to 

 basal fourth of the elytra. The fifth hind tarsal joint is relatively 

 shorter than in any other species recalled at present. The type is 

 as follows: 



Body oblong-oval, very moderately convex, rather shining, black, the ely- 

 tra feebly (c?) or densely (9 ) sericeous; under surface and femora 

 black, the tibiae and tarji testaceous; head rather short, slightly more 

 than half as wide as the prothorax, with a few punctures basally 

 and near the rather large shallow and somewhat vague foveae, the 

 eyes unusually large and very prominent; antennae very slender, 

 somewhat dusky-testaceous throughout; prothorax but little more 

 than a third wider than long, the sides subparallel, evenly and rather 

 strongly arcuate, the apex deeply sinuate, with advanced and but 

 very narrowly rounded angles and much narrower than the base, 



