272 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



dark testaceous : head wider than long, with two pubescent foveae 

 separated by half the entire width and connected by a simple 

 parabolic sulcus, the eyes rather small, the tempora converging slightly ; 

 antennce one-half longer than the head, rather slender, the three joints of 

 the club gradually wider, ninth and tenth between two and three times as 

 wide as long, symmetric, the eleventh obtusely ogival apically, as long as 

 the preceding three ; prothorax equal in width to the head, a little wider 

 than long, the sides strongly rounded anteriorly, converging and nearly 

 straight from somewhat before the middle to the base, the pubescent 

 foveas and connecting biarcuate sulcus deep ; elytra slightly shorter than 

 wide, moderately inflated distally, not quite one-half wider than the 

 prothorax, the sides rounded ; humeri narrowly exposed, distinct ; sulcus 

 obsolete somewhat behind the middle, the base with a very minute and 

 feeble intermediate fovea ; abdomen slightly narrower and a little longer 

 than the elytra, parallel, the first dorsal with a transverse nude 

 basal impression in median third but not carinate. Length, 1.15 mm.; 

 width, 0.28 mm. North Carolina, Schmitt. 



A single female. The erect minutely capitate setae of the under 

 surface of the head are present anterioily and very fine, though long, their 

 terminal knobs subspherical. 



Pseiidactium mellinuni, n. sp.---Form shorter and thicker, convex, 

 polished, similarly subimpunctate, pale flavo-testaceous throughout, the 

 pubescence inconspicuous ; head nearly similar, the eyes notably larger 

 and more convex, the last antennal joint relatively more elongate, about 

 as long as the preceding four combined ; prothorax equal in width to the 

 head, nearly as in CaroliiKZ ; elytra very much larger, as long as wide 

 and as long as the head and prothorax, fully three-fifths wider, the median 

 basal fovea stronger, the sides rounded; discal stria extending well behind 

 the middle; abdomen narrower than the elytra and much shorter, the basal 

 impression of Caro/ince obsolete or very nearly. Male with the first four 

 ventral sutures nearly straight and transverse, the fifth strongly sinuate, the 

 fifth segment long at the sides, very short medially ; sixth large, broadly 

 impressed medially, deeply sinuate behind for the rather large and 

 obliquely oval flat operculum, which occupies nearly all the seventh 

 segment and slightly longer than wide, minutely, sparsely punctulate and 

 shining. Length, i.i mm.; width, 0.4 mm. Pennsylvania (Westmoreland 

 Co.), Schmitt. 



