chamberlin: geophiloidea of the southeastern states. 425 



August 18, this being the only point for the species thus far recorded 

 within the region covered by the present paper. The species is a 

 boreal one very common in Alaska and neighboring islands and in 

 parts of Canada and is also frequent in the northern sections of the 

 United States. L. branneri Bollman seems to replace it in the southern 

 states. 



LlNOTENIA BRANNERI Bollman. 



Ent. Americana, 1888, 4, p. 4. 



fScoliophincs chionophila Brolemann, Ann. Soc. ent. France, 1896, 

 65, p. 60. 



Rather robust; very strongly attenuated cephalad, less strongly 

 caudad; body and appendages subdensely clothed with rather long 

 stiff hairs. 



In alcohol reddish brown or ferruginous, paler caudad and cephalad; 

 head deeper, paler in front of frontal suture; antennae and legs light 

 brown, uniform. 



Head relatively wide anteriorly; anterior margin straight in middle, 

 evenly rounded laterally; caudal margin in middle straight or but 

 little excurved, laterally evenly rounded; widest at about junction 

 of middle and caudal thirds; a marked longitudinal median furrow 

 along entire length of head in caudal portion of which there is a short, 

 sharply impressed sulcus; wider than long in about ratio 6:5. Basal 

 plate a little overlapping the caudal margin of the cephalic; a little 

 wider than the head, and very nearly twice as wide as long or a little 

 more. 



Antennae moderately long, the articles long or moderately long, 

 gradually decreasing in length from the fifth or sixth to the penult; 

 ultimate article almost exactly equalling in length the two preceding 

 taken together; usually four times, a little more or less, than the head, 

 in the specimen described ad 2.5 mm. 



Claws of prehensorial feet when closed attaining the front margin 

 of the head but not at all extending beyond; tooth of claw stout, coni- 

 cal, extending mesocephalad; femora wider than greatest length nearly 

 in ratio 3:2, twice as long as the outer height of the prefemur; caudal 

 margin straight, not at all produced caudad in middle. 



Anterior prescuta moderate, about ^ as long as the main scutum of 

 segment, very gradually increasing caudad to the third fourth of 

 length where they are about \ as long as main scuta, and then again 

 decreasing caudad. Dorsum with a longitudinal median furrow which 

 may be obscure in some parts. 



