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Ochracoous, yellowish pilose : head still more finely punctured than in the 

 preceding: antenna and feet testaceous : eyes black : thorax as in the preceding ? 

 with two small tufts of hair on the middle of the posterior edge: scutel trans- 

 verse: elytra finely striate-punctate, punctures placed in very shallow striae, the 

 interstices convex, each with two rows of very minute, distant punctures : beneath 

 pale rufous. 



Antherophagus, Knoch, Latr. 



A. ochraceus. Ochraceous, pubescent; base of the tibia; blackish. — 2| 1. long. 

 Pennsylvania. 



Oblong-oval, pale ochraceous, densely clothed with a yellowish prostrate pu- 

 bescence : head large, above flatfish, very minutely punctured, posteriorly glab- 

 rous, at tip profoundly emarginate : mandibles at tip black, acute: antenna 

 robust, with the basal joint stout; joints 2 — 8 equal, moniliform ; fuscous, with 

 the basal joint, and frequently the clava, ochraceous : eyes black: thorax trans- 

 verse-quadrate, with the sides slightly rounded; surface very minutely and densely 

 punctured : scutel transverse, very narrow, and often of a deeper tint than the 

 body : elytra very minutely and densely wrinkled, obsoletely striate : venter and 

 postpectus rufous : feet colored like the elytra, with the base of the tibiae 

 blackish. 



Cryptophagus, Herbst. 



C. maculalus. Rufous ; elytra testaceous, punctate-striate, maculate with fus- 

 cous; thorax at sides dentate. — lj 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Latridius maculatus, Melsh. Catal. 



Dull rufous: head inequal, with the front somewhat impressed and wrinkled: 

 antennas 1 1-jointed, first joint clavate, second robust, about the length of the third, 

 which is longer than the fourth ; clava 3-jointed, two first joints subglobular, 

 third or terminal joint ovate : palpi small, filiform : eyes black: thorax subtrans- 

 verse, with the base truncate, finely margined ; apex obtusely rounded ; sides 

 rounded, with four prominent teeth at each; lateral margins depressed; disk 

 convex, rough with rugose punctures, deeply grooved in the middle : elytra wider 

 at base than the thorax, widest behind the middle, moderately convex, testaceous, 

 obsoletely maculate with fuscous, profoundly punctate-striate, with the striae much 

 wider than the interstices, sutural stria very short, the interstices subacute, lateral 

 one extending from the base to the suture ; lateral edge finely marginate : feet 

 testaceous ; tarsi simple, heteromerous. 



Corticaria, Marsh. 



1. C. pulicarius. Blackish; elytracrenate-striate. 1 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Latridius pulicarius, Melsh. Catal. 



Head and thorax blackish, with a rufous tinge, densely and finely granulated, 

 the former with an obsolete longitudinal impressed line in the middle : antennae 

 colored like the feet : eyes deep black : thorax truncatc-subcordate, transversely 

 indented before the base ; mesial groove distinct : elytra dark chestnut, without 

 gloss, deeply crenate-striate : feet dull red-testaceous. 



