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Atheta disjuncta n. sp. Rather stout, moderately convex, strongly shining 

 throughout, the micro-reticulation virtually obsolete, the abdomen faintly 

 opalescent from the minute and extremely close but faint micro-strigilation; 

 pubescence rather long, not close; punctures minute, not close-set and feebly 

 asperulate; color piceous-black, the prothorax dark piceous, the elytra and 

 legs very pale; head moderate, the eyes at less than their own diameter from 

 the base, the carinae fine and virtually entire but not joined to the buccal 

 margin as they are in discrete, ; antennae rather long, only feebly incrassate, 

 piceous-black, very gradually testaceous basally, the outer joints very nearly 

 as long as wide, the last slender, gradually pointed, longer than the two pre- 

 ceding, the second and third much elongated, the latter the longer; prothorax 

 moderately transverse, much wider than the head, not quite as wide as the 

 elytra, parallel and evenly, rather strongly arcuate at the sides, th ante- 

 scutellar impression small and very feeble; elytra moderately transverse, 

 distinctly longer than the prothorax; abdomen slightly narrower than the 

 elytra, parallel, with very slightly arcuate sides, the first five tergites short, 

 equal in length, the sixth (cf) abruptly truncate, the truncature feebly, an- 

 gularly sinuate and coarsely, strongly crenulate; mesosternal process ex- 

 tending fully two-thirds of the coxae, gradually and sinuously narrowed and 

 prolonged but appreciably wide, the apex rather acute, separated from the 

 broadly angulate metasternum by a moderate space, which is slightly de- 

 pressed and broadly, transversely convex; two basal joints of the hind tarsi 

 short and subequal, the next two a little longer. Length 2.6 mm.; width 

 0.7 mm. Pennsylvania (Allegheny) and North Carolina (Asheville). 



The abdomen is somewhat as in strigosula, but the species is very 

 different in its shining surface, larger prothorax and other characters. 



Atheta annexa n. sp. Rather stout and convex, shining, the micro-reticu- 

 lation somewhat feeble, coarse on the abdomen, the punctures minute, faintly 

 asperulate, not close except on the elytra; color black, the prothorax piceous, 

 the abdomen at tip and the two basal segments, the elytra, legs and antennae 

 basally, testaceous, the elytra dark at the scutellum and each apical angle; 

 head rather transverse, the eyes moderate, the carinae fine, not quite entire; 

 antennae moderately short and stout, feebly incrassate and pale brown dis- 

 tally, the outer joints moderately transverse, the last much longer than the 

 two preceding, the second and third elongate, subequal, the latter slightly 

 the longer; prothorax transverse, about as wide as the elytral base; much 

 wider than the head, parallel and strongly rounded at the sides, scarcely 

 at all impressed; elytra slightly wider and much longer than the prothorax; 

 abdomen much narrower than the elytra, parallel basally, gradually feebly 

 narrowing thence to the tip, the fifth tergite distinctly longer than the fourth, 

 the sixth (c?) broadly and rectilinearly truncate and strongly, not very 

 coarsely crenulate, the lateral crenelures a little larger and dentiform; 

 mesosternal process narrow, subacutely rounded at tip, extending well 

 behind the middle of the coxae and rather well separated from the angulate, 

 rather narrow and pronounced metasternal projection. Length 2.6 mm.; 

 width 0.65 mm. North Carolina (Asheville). 



Distinguishable readily by the antennal characters and coloration. 



