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are perhaps paler than the types, the third about the color, while 

 the fourth is piceous black throughout, except the antennae, 

 mouth parts and legs pale. 



This species, by description, seems to bear quite a superficial 

 resemblance to Euscaphurus saltator Casey of the Dascyllidae, 

 under which name my examples from both localities came; how- 

 ever the larger size, the truncate maxillary palpi, the four-jointed 

 hind tarsi, the long, beautifully pectinate spurs of the hind tibiae 

 and the absence of a visible scutellum and sutural striae readily 

 distinguish it. 



The occurrence of species with the mature individuals varying 

 from pale to piceous or black is common on the Pacific islands 

 and coast. There are before me now Anisotoma humeralis, 

 Agathidium rotundiilum, Liparocephalus brevipennis. Cercyon 

 analis, Atomaria kamtschatika and Opsimus quadrilineatus so 

 colored, besides many others might be mentioned. 



Hymenorus {Mycetophila} rufipes Lcc. The species was briefly 

 described and figured by Major LeConte (Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. 

 N. Y. i, 170) and redescribed by Dr. LeConte (S. M. C. 167, p. 

 136) as a Hymenorus. Capt. Casey has removed it to Hfyceto- 

 chara = Mycetochares, probably on the supposition that the pe- 

 nultimate tarsal joints are not lobed and where it seems much 

 out of place. The only example known to Mr. Casey was the 

 unique in the LeConte cabinet, which Dr. LeConte considered 

 a Hymenorus. My example, taken here in western Pennsylvania, 

 shows this joint to be emarginate at least, the fineness of tarsi 

 making it difficult to discern the lobe. As it otherwise has the 

 facies of the species of Hymenorus with which Dr. LeConte asso- 

 ciated it, it seems more prudent to permit it to remain there, 

 though differing from them in some respects, as in the shortness 

 and sknderness of the tarsi and the smallness and greatly wider 

 separation of the eyes. In size my example is .18 inch, long: 

 the antennae, mouth parts and underside, except the prothorax, 

 rufous ; the thorax is quadrate, the sides being rounded slightly 

 from on'e-third to apex; the base is squarely truncate without 

 the usual sinuations; the surface granulate in appearance from 

 the deep, dense, close punctuation; the elytra with stria- of tiiu- 

 punctures and punctulate intervals, and with long pubescence. 



The type was from New York; also recorded from Michigan. 



