STAPHYLINID^E 135 



carina extends from the base to the middle and is more distinct 

 than in badeola. 



The three following species differ from more typical Metaxya 

 in the shorter and strongly incrassate antennae, with short trans- 

 verse outer joints, but the body has nearly the same parallel form 

 and the middle coxae are contiguous, with the metasternal process 

 short or very moderate: 



Metaxya erudita n. sp. Almost perfectly parallel, moderately convex, 

 dull in lustre, the punctures very fine and close, more separated though 

 very numerous on the more shining abdomen, where the minute sculpture 

 is not very small and is in subtransverse broken lines; color pale piceous- 

 brown, the head and abdomen blackish, the latter at tip and the elytra 

 paler and more yellowish, the scutellar region broadly and feebly in- 

 fumate, the legs very pale; pubescence rather coarse, pale and distinct; 

 head very large, slightly wider than long, four-fifths as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, convex, with a small subobsolete rounded central impression; 

 eyes prominent, at very little more than their own length from the base, 

 the tempora rounded and just visibly more prominent, the carinae fine 

 but entire; antennae short, very pale, gradually feebly infuscate and 

 strongly incrassate distally, the third joint evidently shorter and more 

 obconic than the second, the fourth distinctly transverse, the outer joints 

 one-half wider than long, the last stout, obtusely ogival and as long as 

 the two preceding; prothorax two-fifths wider than long, parallel and 

 feebly, evenly arcuate at the sides from the basal to the apical angles, the 

 median line feebly and rather broadly impressed at base and apex only; 

 elytra slightly transverse, subparallel, barely at all wider, the suture only 

 just visibly longer, than the prothorax;- abdomen narrower than the elytra, 

 perfectly parallel, with straight sides, the fifth tergite evidently longer 

 than the fourth. Length 2.6 mm.; width 0.62 mm. Manitoba (Aweme), 

 -Criddle. 



Recognizable by its pallid coloration, parallel form and notably 

 large head. 



Metaxya surrufa n. sp. Parallel, rather depressed, the coloration 

 very pallid but throughout nearly as in the preceding, the lustre rather 

 dull, the punctures fine, somewhat close, the abdomen more shining 

 and with the moderately numerous punctures slightly more asperate, 

 the ground sculpture nearly similar, not at all dense and rather feeble; 

 pubescence almost similar; head nearly similar but smaller and more 

 transverse, three-fourths as wide as the prothorax and without central 

 impression, the carinae very fine and not entire; antennae smaller, similar 

 in coloration and gradually rather strongly incrassate distally, the third 

 joint much shorter than the second and less than one-half longer than 

 wide, obconic, four to ten strongly transverse, nearly as in the preceding, 

 though still shorter; prothorax much shorter, one-half wider than long, 

 parallel, somewhat widest, though with the subprominent sides broadly 



