1865.] 255 



uilota cinctipcs are the only representatives of the family that occur 

 likewise on the South American Contineiit. The geographical form of 

 our Northern Utethesia hella Hiibn., described as Dciopeia speciosa by 

 Mr. Walker, occurs likewise in Jamaica, and is perhaps replaced by 

 what may be another geographical race of the same species — Utethesia 

 oniatrix — on other Islands of the West Indian Archipelago, if not, as 

 I suspect, associated with it. In the Arctiid/e -we have peculiar species 

 of Annnafo, Spilosoma, Ecpantheria and Ilalisidota, which are, so 

 far as we are aware, confined in their representation to the Island, and 

 are partly replaced in Jamaica and other Islands by allied but distinct 

 species- One species oi Halisidota {H. cincfipes Grote), seems to find 

 its northern limit to the eastward and, as we go southward from the 

 Gulf States, by its substitution for our common //. tessellaris Hiibn., 

 offers the strongest evidence that we have entered on a distinct Faunal 

 Province, while it gives no individuality to the insular fauna, since it 

 occurs in South America and Mexico. It is not improbable that it will 

 be taken in Texas, judging from what is known of the Fauna of that 

 State. The utter absence of Aitaci and Ceratocam,pidae, deprives the 

 Family of what is always its greatest interest and beauty, and for 

 which no compensatory value is offered. The Family has dwindled 

 and become unimportant, encroached upon by the Zi/gsenidae., which 

 here appear in much greater diversity than in the colder climates of 

 the Northern American Continent. 



New Species and eorrections in tlie family PSELAPHID.S;. 



BY E M I L B R E N I) E L , M . T) . 



After considerable delay, I am able to add the following descriptions 

 of new species of the family " Pselaphidae" to my former publications: 



1. Adranes LeContei, n.sp. — Testaceus, translucens, capite cylindrico, thorace 

 8ub-cylindrico, pone medium lateraliter compresso, elytris angulis apicalibus 

 mediis et exteriiis pilosis, abdomine excavate, marginato, ad basin in margine 

 tuberculato. Long 2.5 m. m. 



The general form of this insect is essentially the same as in A. coccus 

 Lee, but the head is broader in front, somewhat obconical, with two 

 very small approximate tubercles in the middle of the base, the front 

 overhangs the face; without eyes; the vertex of the male is longitudi- 

 nally bistriate. The last joint of the antennas is a little narrower at 

 the truncated end. The thorax, seen from above, is cylindrical, longer 

 than the head, behind the middle laterally compressed, in the depth of 

 the impression sulcate all around, behind which sulcus, at the middle 



