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antennae long and heavy, gradually incrassate, all the joints longer than wide, 

 the last not as long as the two preceding, the second and third much elongated, 

 the latter the longer; prothorax moderately transverse, distinctly wider than 

 the head, but, at the middle, as wide as the base of the elytra, the sides parallel 

 and evenly, rather strongly arcuate; elytra slightly shorter than wide, the 

 sides feebly diverging from the base, much longer than the prothorax, the 

 apices not sinuate laterally; abdomen long, slightly narrower than the elytra, 

 perfectly parallel, the first five tergites nearly equal in length; middle coxae 

 almost contiguous, the metasternum not transverse but moderately angulate; 

 tarsi slender, the basal joint of the posterior slightly shorter than the second. 

 Length 3.2 mm.; width 0.68 mm. New Hampshire (Mt. Washington). 



At first this species seemed to be the angtisticornis, of Bernhauer, 

 from the same region, but his description, in regard especially to 

 the elytra, will not at all apply. The species is aberrant slightly in 

 sternal structure. 



Metaxya subfusca n. sp. Elongate, scarcely convex, alutaceous, very 

 finely and closely micro-reticulate and very minutely, closely punctulate; 

 vestiture rather dense, short; color piceous-brown, the head and abdomen, 

 except the fine apices of the segments, black, the legs very pale; head but 

 slightly transverse, parallel, with rounded basal angles as usual, the eyes 

 at a little less than their own length from the base, the carinae short, ex- 

 tending only to the middle; antennae dark brown, slightly paler basally, 

 moderate in length, stout, very gradually and moderately incrassate, the 

 outer joints slightly transverse, the last unusually short, not as long as the 

 two preceding, the second and third much elongated, the latter slightly the 

 longer; prothorax only slightly transverse, evidently though not greatly 

 wider than the head and much narrower than the elytra, parallel and mod- 

 erately rounded at the sides; elytra only moderately transverse, much longer 

 than the prothorax, the sides feebly diverging from base to apex; abdomen 

 parallel, narrower than the elytra, elongate, the fifth tergite longer than the 

 fourth, the sixth (9 ) rounded, the punctures minute, feeble and sparse; hind 

 tarsi rather long, the first four joints equal, the first only very slightly shorter 

 than the second; mesosternal process becoming extremely finely drawn out 

 and aciculate, extending nearly to apical third of the coxae, which are con- 

 tiguous over the depressed acute longitudinal ridge to the apex of the rather 

 broad but angulate metasternum. Length 3.0 mm.; width 0.68 mm. Cali- 

 fornia (Gualala, Mendocino Co.). 



A very distinct species, of which the type is apparently a female. 

 Valenusa Csy., is a subgenus of Metaxya and not of Awischa, as 

 previously announced. 



Aloconota Thorns. 



Although having an elongate form of body, somewhat as in 

 Metaxya and quite unlike Atheta, and with the middle coxae contigu- 

 ous or nearly so, also unlike the latter genus, the species of Aloconota 



