STAPHYLINID^E. 65 



Philhygra Rey. 



The species placed below seem to pertain to this subgenus of 

 Atheta, but, as usual, vary somewhat in structure, the typical forms 

 having an unusually long mesosternal process, not finely aciculate 

 but blunt and truncate at apex and only very slightly separated 

 from the projecting metasternum.* 



Atheta (Philhygra) repanda n. sp. Nearly parallel, moderately stout, 

 feebly convex, rather dull, finely, closely sculptured, the reticulation of 

 the abdomen feebler, the pubescence abundant but short and inconspicuous; 

 color dark piceous, the head and abdomen blackish, the elytra rather dark 

 brown, the legs pale; head slightly wider than long, subquadrate, the eyes 

 convex and prominent, equal in length to the tempora, the latter less later- 

 ally prominent, the carinse fine and entire; antennae dark, rather long, only 

 very slightly thickened distally, the first three joints rapidly decreasing in 

 length, the first stoutest, the third scarcely more than one-half longer than 

 wide, obconic, the outer joints moderately transverse, the last gradually 

 pointed and much longer than the two preceding; prothorax moderately 

 transverse, parallel, the sides evenly and moderately arcuate, distinctly wider 

 than the head but very nearly as wide as the elytra, the median line more or 

 less broadly impressed in more than basal half; elytra moderately transverse, 

 truncate apically, the suture impressed basally and fully a fourth longer than 

 the prothorax; abdomen rather wide, parallel, slightly narrower than the 

 elytra, the first five tergites equal, the sixth (cf) broadly and evenly sinuate 

 at tip in circular arc, the edge slightly wrinkled on the surface; side margin 

 rather thick, the punctures fine, moderately close, the first three tergites 

 finely pallescent at apex; mesosternal process extending to apical third of 

 the coxae, becoming parallel at the rather broad rounded tip, which is sepa- 

 rated from the metasternum by a notably short depression; hind tarsi long, 

 setose, the first four joints equal. Length 2.0 mm.; width 0.5 mm. New 

 Jersey and New York (Ithaca and Catskill Alts.). 



May be distinguished readily by the antennal and sternal char- 

 acters. 



Atheta (Philhygra) astuta n. sp. Less parallel, moderately convex, rather 

 stout, moderately shining, the punctures not dense, fine though unusually 

 strongly asperate, especially the sparse punctures of the head ; color blackish 

 throughout, the abdomen dull testaceous basally and at apex and the elytra 

 paler at the humeri, the legs pale flavate; head slightly wider than long, the 

 eyes large, rather convex, longer and more prominent than the tempora, the 

 carinse fine, subentire; antennae short, gradually strongly incrassate, the 

 bristling setae conspicuous, the basal joint very much longer than the second, 

 the latter not evidently longer than the third, neither of the latter two as 



*Our German friends have been recently dropping the silent h, making rot of the 

 old familiar roth, but I do not think that this elimination should be carried to the 

 extent of dropping the h from generic names, writing as they do Philygra, instead of 

 the original Philhygra. 



T. L. Casey, Mem. Col. I, Sept. 1910. 



