June-Sept, 1919.] NOTMAN : CaRABIDJE. 225 



Iowa: Iowa City 1 0", 3 ?; New Liberty 1 6*. 

 Sponsa is most readily distinguished from the other vespertina-like 

 Sericas by its coarse, dense puncturation, especially on the face where 

 it tends to obscure the clypeal suture, and by the small antenna! club 

 of the male. Mr. Blatchlcy's species evidens 3 is the most cl 

 allied species at present known to the writer. It also has very • 

 facial puncturation and the small antenna! club in the male, but dif- 

 fers from sponsa at a glance, by the sharp carination of the median 

 line of the front and of the clypeal suture, also by the less uniform 

 and remarkably dense puncturation of the pronotum especially toward 

 the sides of the discal area. Evidens is the only species at hand in 

 which the male genital armature is at all comparable to that of sponsa, 

 but even here the resemblance is not close. 



RECORDS AND NEW SPECIES OF CARABID^. 



By Howard Nit max, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



While identifying some Carabidce belonging to Mr. C. W. Leng, a 

 number of species were discovered which seemed to be undescribed. 

 These with some others, part of a collection acquired from Mr. Gustav 

 Beyer, and one species of Patrobus collected in the Adirondack Moun- 

 tains during the summer of 1918, form the material for the following 

 descriptions. The species in the Beyer Collection had been marked new 

 or left with blank labels, with the exception of one species of Har- 

 palus, which was found under the label Harpolus herbivagus 

 With the descriptions arc included a number of records from the 

 Beyer Collection which seem of interest in extending the known 

 range of a number of speci< s. 



Pachyteles beyeri new species. 



Form very elongate, parallel ; color dark castaneo-piceous. nearly black, 

 finely alutaceous and subopaque : palpi, antenna; and lega rufo-piceous. Head 

 two fifths longer than wide, five sixths as wide as the thorax, as wide as the 

 thorax at apex; very sparsely but deeply and Strongly punctate; front rugose, 



■ Canadian Entomologist. LI, p. 153; new name for carinoto. 



