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piceous. Palpi piceous. Head as broad as the thorax, blackish, very 

 finely punctured, front rather convex. Thorax a little shorter than 

 broad, strongly rounded before the middle, slightly convex, finely punc- 

 tured, deeply sulcate, the apex channelled; scutellum bicarinated, chan- 

 nelled between the carinas. Elytra a little shorter than broad and 

 slightly longer than the thorax, closely and finely punctured. Abdo- 

 men finely punctured. Legs piceous, tarsi testaceous or rufo-testa- 

 ceous. — Erichson . 



2. Falagria venustula, Erich. 



Falagria venustula, Erich. Staph, p. 55. 20. 



Piceous, punctured ; thorax suborbicular, reddish ; elytra fuscous ; 

 humeri, base of abdomen and legs, testaceous. Length | line. 



Hab. — Pennsylvania. 



Clothed with fine pubescence. Antennas as long as the head and 

 thorax, slender, slightly pilose, testaceous, fuscous before the apex. 

 Palpi fuscous. Head as broad as the thorax, orbicular, the front slightly 

 convex, very closely and finely punctured, black, scarcely shining. 

 Thorax a little narrower than the elytra, rather shorter than broad, the 

 sides rounded anteriorly, slightly narrowed towards the base, moder- 

 ately convex, very closely and finely punctured, fusco-rufescens, scarcely 

 shining; scutellum even, fuscous. Elytra a little longer than the tho- 

 rax, very closely and finely punctured, humeral angles rufo-testaceous. 

 Abdomen above sparsely punctured, the first two segments pale yellow- 

 ish-testaceous ; remaining segments black, shining. Pectus black. 

 Legs yellow. — Erichson . 



3. Falagria bilobata. Say. 



Aleochara bilobata. Say, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vi. N. S. p. 156. 

 Falagria bilobata, Lee, Say's Writings, ii. p. 589. 



Dark reddish-brown ; thorax subcordate, canaliculate, feet pale. 



Hab. — Missouri and Indiana. 



Body very dark reddish-brown, with numerous regular punctures : 

 antennas, two basal joints paler: mouth beneath, excepting the ter- 

 minal joints of the maxillary palpi, pale testaceous: thorax rounded 

 before and narrower behind; very deeply canaliculate; groove abruptly 

 abbreviated on the basal margin : elytra at tip and sides with smaller 

 punctures than the thorax ; suture indented : feet pale testaceous : ter- 

 gum, segments with dilated punctures at base. Length less than three- 

 twentieths of an inch. — Say. 



■»» Head not constricted into a narrow neck. 



a. Joints of hind tarsi equal, or slightly decreasing in length, 

 t Anterior and middle tibiae strongly spinose externally. 



