78 FAMILY IV. — CYDNID^. 



Marion and Perry counties, Ind., scarce, May 21 — Oct. 1. 

 Specimens taken in May and June were swept from herbage 

 in dense moist woodlands ; in October by sifting debris from 

 about the base of a beech tree. Ranges from Massachusetts 

 west to Nebraska and south to Florida. I have not taken it in 

 Florida but it is recorded from Tampa, Lakeland and Jackson- 

 ville, May-November, by Barber. Nothing definite as to its 

 habits has been published and it appears to be scarce at all 

 recorded localities. 



39 ( — ). Geotomus subpunctatus sp. nov. 



Broadly oval, subdepressed. Black, shining; elytra and tibiae 

 piceous; antennae and tarsi reddish-brown. Head broader across the 

 eyes than long, its apex evenly semicircular; cheeks densely but more 

 finely and not confluently punctate as in robustus, their margins more 

 broadly reflected. Antennae shorter and more slender than in robustus; 

 joints 2 — 5 subequal in length, 2 cylindrical, 3 and 4 subclavate; 5 fusi- 

 form, distinctly smaller and less pubescent than in robustus. Pronotum 

 about one-half wider at base than long at middle, sides slightly curved 

 from middle to the obtuse front angles, disk with sides rather broadly 

 flattened and with a wide shallow longitudinal concavity within and 

 along nearly their full length; surface smooth or minutely very sparse- 

 ly punctate over the entire median area, the sides densely and finely 

 punctate. Scutellum relatively shorter and broader than in robustus, 

 minutely, sparsely and almost invisibly punctate throughout, except 

 along the submarginal lateral lines. Elytra distinctly punctate only 

 on narrow basal third of corium, elsewhere very minutely and sparsely 

 so. Propleura finely strigosely punctate; abdomen minutely and very 

 sparsely punctate. Genital plate in both sexes distinctly not closely 

 punctate. Length, 4 — 4.2 mm.; width, 2.1 — 2.3 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Feb. 6 ; two sifted from vegetable debris 

 along the bay front (W. S. B.). Wilmington, N. Car., April 17; 

 Plum Point, Md., Aug. 9 (Barber). The Barber specimens were 

 labelled "G. robustus Uhler" but they are very different from 

 that species, as described above and by Uhler, in the charac- 

 ters given in key, and especially in the form of thorax, the 

 margins of which are not rounded in front of middle, but only 

 very slightly curved and sides of disk distinctly more flat- 

 tened. The punctuation above is everywhere more sparse and 

 the form more broadly oval. 



40 (64). Geotomus uhleri Signoret, 1883, 211. 



Elongate-oval, subdepressed. Black, strongly shining; antennae 

 reddish-brown, the incisures paler; tibiae piceous; beak and tarsi red- 



