1865.] 409 



10. Homalota? pallitarsis, Kirby. 



Aleochara pallitarsis, Kirby, Fauna Bor. Am. iv, p. 90. 

 Body black, gloss deadened by short inconspicuous hairs. Head 

 rather spherical, narrower than the prothorax, very minutely punctured ; 

 antennae shorter than the prothorax, rather robust, intermediate joints 

 turbinate, last joint ovate, acute; prothorax suborbicular, with the sides 

 deflexed, very minutely and thickly punctured ; dorsal channel nearly 

 obsolete; a large punctiform impression just above thescutellum; elytra 

 longer and rather wider than the thorax, piceous-black, extreme tips 

 rufous, very minutely and thickly punctured; legs piceous-black, with 

 rufous tarsi. Length of body 2 lines. — Kirby. 



2. Labial palpi very long, 2-jomted: joints of hind tarsi 1 — 4 equal. 



Genus 5.— STENUSA, Kraatz. 



1. Stenusa altemans, Sachse. 



Silusa altemans, Sachse. Stett. Ent. Zeits. 1852, p. 118. 

 Stenusa altemans, Lee. List. Col. N. A. p. 22. 



Rufo-piceous, shining; middle of antennae, head, disk of thorax, ex- 

 terior angles of elytra, and the abdomen before the apex, blackish. 

 Length If line. 



Shining, clothed with fine pale greyish pubescence, most conspicuous 

 on the anterior part of the body. Antennae not quite so long as the 

 head and thorax, slightly thickened towards the apex; the base and 

 apex red, the middle joints blackish. Head very indistinctly punctured, 

 shining, blackish : mouth red. Thorax somewhat narrower than the 

 elytra, broader than long, slightly rounded at the sides, truncate in 

 front, the anterior angles somewhat bent downwards, the posterior an- 

 gles somewhat rectangular; the upper surface slightly elevated, very 

 finely punctured, the basal middle with a slight depression, considerably 

 shining, blackish, the lateral margins not very plainly reddish, semi- 

 transparent. Elytra but little longer than the thorax, red, blackish on 

 the outer hiud corners, very closely and much stronger punctate than 

 the thorax. Abdomen red, blackish before the apex, shining, finely 

 and very closely punctured; the sixth segment of the £ shows a small 

 carina on the centre, in the 9 this carina is wanting. Legs red. 



Ilab. — Georgia. — Sachse. 



2. Stenusa gracilis, Sachse. 



Silusa gracilis, Sachse, Stett. Ent. Zeits. 1852. p. 119. 



Stenusa gracilis, Lee. List. Col. N. A. p. 22. 

 Reddish-brown ; head, thorax and elytra very closely, and abdomen 

 sparsely and very finely punctured and pubescent; middle of antennae, 

 and abdomen before the apex somewhat piceous; legs testaceous. 

 Length 1 line. 



