386 JOHN HAMILTON, M. D. 



between these forms. J]xaniples of 4-giittatus Fab. from Europe have 

 nearly the same markings as geminatus. This species occurs everywhere 

 in the United States eastward from the Eocky Mountains and across the 

 northern part of the continent to Oregon and Vancouver, 1. c. 323. Can. 

 Ent. xvii, 46. 

 Obs. — The species erected from this by Mr. Reitter {4.-guttatiis, fascintus a,Qd 

 i-signatns) are untenable in any other sense than that of color varia- 

 tions, witii abundance of material. 



LATRIDIID^. 



The species of this family being minute and diflBcult to recognize, are mostly 

 neglected by collectors, many of them are undescribed, and their dis- 

 tribution is but faintly indicated by the records. 



383. Holoparamecus sing-ularis Beck. — A little being, only .03 inch, in length, 



which inhabits usually under vegetable detritus in central Europe, oc- 

 curred at Fort Yuma, California, under bark. C. 156; and at New York 

 in mouldy straw goods from Italy. Pr. 1876. "Canaries. Egypt, Syria, 

 Caucasia, East Indies. Nearly cosmopolite.'' 



384. Enicmus minutus Linn., rugicollis Mann., 1853, reflexiis Lee. — From the 



Peninsula of Kenai to Louisiana (Summers) and to Massachusetts and 

 eastern Canada. All Europe and northern Asia to Karatschatka under 

 bark and about wood. Cosmopolitan, Fauvel. 

 Obs. — If E. transversus Oliv., which, according to Reitter, is likewise cos- 

 mopolitan, occurs in northern America, its discovery is not of American 

 record. 

 38.5. E. consimilis Manw. , pay-aUelocoUis Mann. — Common on the peninsula of 

 Kenai. Temperate and northern Europe, Lake Baical. Heyden, 96. 



386. Lathridius productus Rosenh., Reitt. Stet. Zeit. 1875, 79. — North America, 



no locality: Mediterranean Europe, Algeria. 



387. L. constrictus Gyll., carinatus Gyll., scalptilis Lee, incisus Mann., penin- 



sula of Kenai, Mann., 1353; Michigan, Scliwarz ; Illinois, Lee. Europe, 

 eastern Siberia. Lee. 1. c. 303. 



388. L. nodifer Westw., nodidosus Mots., B. M. 1866, 261. — Pacific coast from 



Washington to middle California; District of Columbia, Schwarz. P. 

 W. ii, 39. Temperate and northern Europe, New Zealand. 



389. Cartodere flliformis Gyll. — "A specimen of this European species was 



found in Missouri and another in the Acad, of Nat. Sci. at Philadelphia." 

 LeConte, P. vii, 304. I once took here some specimens of this minute 

 insect in the debris of a box of imported raisins. Detroit, Mich., in an 

 old flour barrel, Schwarz, Psyche i, 147. 



390. C. ruficoUis Ma.rsh, pidicarius Mels.— " Middle and Southern States; some- 



times abundant, flying at twilight," LeConte, 1. c. 304; P. ii, 115. 

 Westogue, Connecticut, infesting a barn "overrunning everything," 

 Jjintiier, 6th An. Rep. on Ins. N. Y. p. 183. South America, Europe. 



391. Corticaria pubescens Gyll., grossa Lee, piligera Maun. — "One specimen 



found at the edge of a salt marsh, near Cambridge, Mass., in May." 

 LeConte, 1. c. 299; northern Michigan, Schwarz. Europe. Barnaul, 

 southeastern west Siberia. Heyden, 97. " Africa, Asia Minor, Caucasia, 

 Austrilia. Probably cosmopolitan." 



