444 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



PODABRUS FRAGMENTATUS, Sp. nov. 



Plate 4, fig. 1. 



Form elongate. Head of moderate size, rather strongly narrowed 

 behind the eyes which are of good size and apparently shortly ellipti- 

 cal, muzzle projecting. Antennae long, slender, if extended backward 

 they would reach a point three fifths from the elytral base, joints not 

 at all serrate, those near the middle nearly three times as long as broad. 

 Prothorax crushed but evidently not very wide. Elytra long, tips 

 bluntly rounded, sculpture fine and obscure. Legs poorly preserved 

 but the pieces remaining show them to have been slender. Length, 

 as preserved, 12.75 mm.; to elytral apices, 9.85 mm.; ^of elytron, 6.85 

 mm. 



Described from one specimen with counterpart. 



Type.— No. 2,487, 2,488 M. C. Z. Florissant, Col. (No. 4,218 and 

 4,638 S. H. Scudder Coll.). Two other specimens. No. 2,489, 2 490 

 M. C. Z. (No. 69, 2,546 S. H. Scudder Coll.) also belong here. 



It IS hard to find any very definite characters to separate this species 

 from P. florissantensis but the latter has a larger head, longer elytra, 

 and shorter antennal joints. 



PoDABRUS wheeleri Wickham. 



Three specimens No. 2,491, 2,492, 2,493 M. C. Z. ■^,(No.^5,946,— ? 

 — ? S. H. Scudder Coll.) belong here. It is probable that the example 

 No. 2,494 M. C. Z. (No. 11,165 S. H. Scudder Coll.) also belongs here. 



PoDABRUS FLORISSANTEiNSIS, Sp. nOV. 



Plate 4, fig. 2. 



Form fairly stout. Head rather long in front of the eye which is 

 slightly elliptical, the greater axis nearly longitudinal. Prothorax 

 crushed but evidently much wider than long, the front margin straight. 

 Elytra long, quite narrow, apices rounded, surface finely scabrous with 

 traces of narrow costae. Legs too poorly preserved for description. 

 Length, to elytral apices, assuming the head to be brought into its 

 normal position, 10.10 mm.; of elytra, 7.35 mm. 



Described from one specimen. 



