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Subgenus Fusalia nov. 



In this subgenus the body is large and obscurely colored, with 

 short antennae, having the outer part very thick and fusiform, the 

 hypomera horizontal and feebly warped. The middle coxae are 

 rather widely separated, the moderately short mesosternal process 

 wide and circularly rounded, scarcely free and separated from the 

 long flat and apically truncate metasternal projection by a very 

 short undepressed interval, not half as long as the apical width of 

 the metasternum. The type is as follows: 



Sableta (Fusalia) brittoni n. sp. Somewhat stout and convex, sub- 

 fusoid, slightly shining and with fine, rather close, more or less asperate 

 punctures, the abdomen strongly shining, with the micro-reticulation 

 in extremely fine feeble and close-set wavy transverse lines and also with 

 fine sparse and non-asperate punctures; color piceous, the elytra paler, 

 broadly blackish toward the base medially and postero-externally, the 

 abdomen black, the apices of the basal segments pale, the legs very pale; 

 pubescence moderate, close and distinct; head wider than long, two- 

 thirds as wide as the prothorax, the eyes large, prominent, at less than 

 half their length from the base, the tempora very rapidly converging 

 to the base, the carinae fine, not quite entire; antennae thick, blackish, 

 the first four joints rather slender, pale, the first much longer than the 

 second, which is equal to the third, fourth but little thicker, much wider 

 than long, five and following abruptly thicker, the seventh widest and more 

 than twice as wide as long, thence narrowing slightly, the last longer than 

 the two preceding; prothorax two-thirds wider than long, rounded at 

 base, the sides rounding and moderately converging anteriorly, becoming 

 subparallel and nearly straight behind about the middle, unimpressed; 

 elytra rather short and transverse, with strongly diverging sides, at base 

 equal in width to the prothorax, the suture about a fifth longer, the apices 

 not sinuate; abdomen much narrower than the elytra, parallel basally, 

 gradually and feebly tapering posteriorly, the fourth and fifth tergites 

 subequal, the third impression not so deep as the two basal; hind tarsi 

 moderate, the first two joints short and equal, two to four increasing in 

 length, the fifth as long as the two preceding combined. Length 3.3 

 mm.; width 0.75 mm. Connecticut (Westville), W. E. Britton. 



The antennae, large eyes and peculiar sternal structure will 

 permit instant recognition of this distinct species, which is probably 

 fungivorous. It in reality represents more nearly a distinct genus 

 than a subgenus, as shown by the sternal structure and general 



habitus. 



Nosora n. gen. 



The general outline of the body in this genus is somewhat stout 

 and subparallel, recalling to some extent the larger forms of Pancota 



T. L. Casey, Mem. Col. II, August 1911. 



