TIIK SHORT-WINGED SCA V KN(!Klf BEETLES. 441 



LX. PALAMINCS Enehs. 1840. (Gr., "hand/') 



Small, slender, subeylindrical species, having the head broader 

 than long, its base truncate immediately behind the eyes; antennae 

 slender, longer than head and thorax; last joint of maxillary palpi 

 relatively shorter and broader than in Pinophilus. Abdomen cylin- 

 drical, narrower than elytra, its sides not margined. 



846 ( 25912). PALAMINI s TKSTACEUS Erichs.. Gen. Spec. Staph.. 1840, 683. 

 Elongate, very slender. Pale reddish-yellow, shin- 

 ing, sparsely clothed with long yellowish hairs; abdo- 

 men reddish-brown ; antenna? and legs pale yellow. 



Head rounded in front, coarsely and sparsely punc- 

 tate. Thorax subquadrate. slightly wider than lung, 

 sides rounded into base, which is but slightly nar- 

 rower than apex ; disk convex, coarsely and rather 

 sparsely punctate. Elytra slightly wider and twice as 

 long as thorax, rather coarsely, not densely punctate. 

 First four segments of abdomen with coarse overlap- 

 ping, scale-like granules; the fifth and sixth smooth. 

 Last ventral of male with middle lobe curved, bent to 

 one side and obliquely truncate at tip. Length 3.5- 

 4 mm. (Fig. 1 ('>",. ) 



Throughout the State ; frequent. April 18- Fig ' 165 ' (0riginal ' ) 

 June 21. Taken by sifting; also on fungi and beneath baric. Their 

 motion is wriggling or vermicular, like that of a worm or snake. 



847 (251)7). PALAMINI-S LARVAI.IS Lee., N. Sp. N. Amer. Col., I, 1803, 4'.). 



Elongate, very slender. Color of tcataceus, the head darker and shorter. 

 Thorax obcordate, much narrower at base than apex, coarsely and very 

 sparsely punctate. Elytra slightly narrower and not longer than thorax, 

 coarsely, deeply and sparsely punctate; abdomen as in tcstaccus, the imbri- 

 cated scales extending to middle of fifth segment. Length 3.2 mm. 



Starke County; rare. May 1!). Sifted from sphagnum moss. 



Subfamily V. TACHYPORINAE. 



Rather short and "broad convex Staphylinids, having the body 

 conical and pointed behind; antenna 1 widely separated at base, in- 

 serted at the sides of the front above {he base of mandibles, usually 

 beneath the side margin of the front, sometimes free, but never be- 

 neath a projecting ridge as in the Pa-dcrina- ; head narrower than 

 thorax, its base not constricted but covered by the front of thorax; 

 front coxa 1 large, conical and prominent, their trochanters very dis- 

 tinct; spiracles of thorax distinct; hind coxa? transverse or triangu- 

 lar; tibia? with numerous spines; abdomen conical, often bordered 

 and terminated with divergent spines. 



