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sparse, stronger and asperulate though not dense on the elytra, very fine 

 and remotely scattered on the abdomen; color piceous, the head and the 

 abdomen, except gradually toward base, blackish, the elytra paler, 

 uniform dusky-flavate; head very nearly as long as wide, three-fourths 

 as wide as the prothorax, parallel and not rounded at the sides, the eyes 

 at very nearly their own length from the base, the carinae and antennae 

 nearly as in rusticula; prothorax nearly one-half wider than long, the sides 

 parallel and rounded but more convergent anteriorly, the median line 

 finely but strongly striiform almost throughout the length; elytra moder- 

 ately short, only very slightly wider and about a fourth longer than the 

 prothorax; abdomen nearly as in the preceding, except that the fifth 

 tergite is not quite as long as the fourth. Length 1.7 mm. ; width 0.43 mm. 

 Rhode Island (Boston Neck). 



The peculiarly elongate head, relatively more anterior eyes and 

 small size of the body will probably render the identification of this 

 species quite certain. 



Atheta catula n. sp. Stouter, subparallel, rather convex, wholly .pale 

 flavo-testaceous, the subapical cloud of the abdomen very faint; micro- 

 reticulation large, polygonal, distinct; punctures fine, not dense , unusually 

 strong, asperate and moderately close on the elytra; head moderately 

 transverse, large, nearly four-fifths as wide as the prothorax, the eyes at 

 two-thirds their length from the base, the tempora about equally promi- 

 nent, the fine carina? far from entire; antennae rather short, slender and 

 pale basally, very stout, subfusiform and blackish from the distinctly trans- 

 verse fourth joint to the apex, the second and third joints subequal, 

 the last gradually pointed and much longer than the two preceding; 

 prothorax rather more than one-half wider than long, parallel and rounded 

 at the sides, the median line striiform; elytra large, slightly shorter than 

 wide, with feebly diverging and nearly straight sides, only just visibly 

 wider but nearly one-half longer than the prothorax; abdomen much 

 narrower than the elytra, parallel, the fourth and fifth tergites subequal, 

 the latter with uneven longitudinal corrugations. Length 1.8 mm.; 

 width 0.55 mm. New York (Catskill Mts.). 



This species is peculiar in its very stout and faintly fusiform an- 

 tenna and unusually large elytra for this section of the genus. 



Atheta candidula n. sp. Rather stout and only feebly convex, shining, 

 finely, asperately and closely punctate, rather sparsely on the abdomen, 

 where the micro-reticulation becomes compressed into somewhat wavy 

 transverse lines posteriorly; pubescence short, pale, abundant, longer and 

 sparse on the abdomen as usual; color pale piceo-testaceous, the head 

 slightly darker, the elytra very pale, albido-flavate, with very small 

 feeble infumation about the scutellum, the abdomen blackish posteriorly 

 except at apex and at the apices of the segments; head large, transverse, 

 fully four-fifths as wide as the prothorax, the eyes large, prominent, 

 at one-half their length from the base, the carinse fine, not quite entire; 

 antennae with the first four joints slender and pale, sparsely setose, the 



