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visible. Elytra one-half wider than thorax, not depressed, subinflated, finely 

 striate, with close, minute punctures in the bottom, intervals wide, flat, seemingly 

 impunctate, covered with small brownish scales very inconspicuously, and each 

 with a row of stout yellow setae extending from base to apex, surface mottled 

 with fugitive pale scales: color, when divested of scales, rufo-piceous to piceous; 

 underside less densely scaly, piceous exce])t feet and last three ventral segments 

 ferruginous. In the % the posterior part of the metasternum. first and second 

 ventral segments are jointly concave, the third and fourth segments together are 

 one-half longer than either of the preceding and equal to the fifth. 



The vittse of the thorax {ind niottliiig of the elytra are only seen 

 in well preserved specimens ; this is likewise the case in lineuticollis, 

 which, apart from size, differs in having a longer beak, a different 

 form of thorax, larger scales, and the elytral setae only visible on 

 the declivity. 



Occurs near St. Vincent, taken by P. Jerome Schmitt. Virginia 

 (Dietz). 



ISTOTES, 



CICINDELA. 

 C. unipunctata is rare, on paths through woody, mountainous places; patruela 

 not (common, on old roads and paths through hilly woodlands; V2-(jnU(tta not 

 rare, along creeks ; purpurea abundant in early Spring and in Autumn, hiber- 

 nates; punctidata common, attracted by lights. 



CARABID^. 



Cychrus. — All the species hibernate; canudemis rare, mostly taken from Sep- 

 tember to November; elevatus rare, Jeannctte ; viduus not uncommon here, 

 more common near the mountains ; ridingsii, only one example here, several 

 at Jeannette; nndreum, not rare, mostly from August to December. 



Nomaretus imperfectus. — One example on mountain uear St. Vincent's, by 

 Schmitt. 



Carabus.— All the species hibernate ; serratus, not uncommon under stones in 

 hilly woods; limhatns, more common in same places; vinctus, alluvial places 

 under rubbish ; sylvosus, one. example ; several at Jeannette. 



Calosoma externum. — Not common; fngidnm, two examples here; several 

 near St. Vincent's; scrutator and wilcoxi come abundHUtly at night to electric 

 lights in May ; calidum less frequently. 



Blaphrus cicatricosus. — Not common, grassy swamps, June. 



Notiophilus. — The species are not rare, under stones and rulibish, June to No- 

 vember. 



Pasimachus depressus. — Only three examples. May and June. 



Dyschirius nigriceps, (jlohulosus and sphsericoUis occur occasionally ; hxmor- 

 rhoidiiiis, abundant along streams; hiKpidits, abundant when found, not com- 

 mon, damp alluvial places. 



