Sept.-Dec, ig.'i.) XoTM.W : W'eSTFIELI) ColEOPTERA. 159 



fourths longer than wide, sides subparallel and rounded in at slightly more than 

 apical third, humeri minutely dentate. Prostcrnum not carinate. Length 2.1 

 mm., width .8 mm. 

 Type 26 May. 



This species heloiij^s in the genus Agaihcngis of Casey's synopsis. 

 Jt should prohahly he placed next to patens Csy. hut differs in its 

 color, small head and elytra proportionally narrower. 



Hypnoidus feiti new species. 



Fonii moderately elongate, parallel, slightly convex and shining. Color 

 piceous brown, elytra with a broad blackish fascia behind the middle, antennae 

 and legs pale testaceous. Head rather finely, indistinctly and not closely punc- 

 tured. Thorax more closely and distinctly punctured with a narrow smooth 

 median line. Kiytra with the striation obsolete, punctuation not quite so close 

 or distinct as that on the thorax : beneath finely and closely punctate, pubes- 

 cence very short, fine and somewhat dense. Head rather small, slightly more 

 than half the width of the thorax, antennae short, slender, not reaching the 

 base of the thorax, second and third joints of equal length, elongate and 

 cylindrical. Thorax a little more than a fourth wider than long, widest near 

 basal third where it is as wide as the elytra, rather strongly narrowed ante- 

 riorly, sides nearly straight, slightly oblique and subsinuate posteriorly, poste- 

 rior angles minutely prominent and divaricate, carinate, carinae rather distant 

 from and parallel to the side margin to near the base where they are sharply 

 angulatc. Prosternal sutures arcuate and distinctly convergent basally. Elytra 

 two thirds longer than wide, sides parallel to the apical third, apex somewhat 

 acutely rounded. The fifth segment of the abdomen is narrowly and sharply 

 declivous along the apical margin and prolonged on either side. Length 2.9 

 mm., width .75 mm. 1 specimen. 



Type 26 May. 



This species may he distinguished from H. pcctoralis Say hy its 

 slightly hroader form, smaller head, thorax widest some distance 

 hehind the middle and hy the sharply angulatcd carina? of the posterior 

 thoracic angles. 



Elater longipennis mw species. 



Form elongate, subparallel, slightly convex. Color black, elytra with a 

 red spot either side of the scutellum, an obscure reddish spot either side be- 

 neath the humerus, antenna; and tarsi picescent. Head coarsely and closely 

 punctured, thorax similarly punctured anteriorly and laterally, more sparsely 

 and finely medially and posteriorly, pubescence fulvous, moderately coarse and 

 dense. Head about one half the width of the thorax, antennae slightly sur- 

 passing the base of the latter, second and third joints short, subequal. third 

 much shorter than the fourth, not triangular, outer joints moderately serrate. 



