454 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



frontal lines ; nasus, four elevated longitudinal lines ; antennse, 

 ferruginous liairs at tip, basal joint piceous; labrum piceous- 

 black, emarginated at tip ; mandibles canaliculate on exterior 

 base; thorax glabrous, narrower behind ; angles acute; a strongly- 

 impressed dorsal line, and an abbreviated indented one each side 

 at hind angles ; exterior margin with sis or eight hairs ; a slight 

 emarginure before the hind angles ; no abbreviated stria near 

 the scutel ; elytra striate ; striae impunctured, slightly crenate, 

 marginal one more conspicuously so ; marginal interstitial line 

 ocellatelj punctured from base to tip ; humeral angles slightly- 

 acute. 



I found two specimens under the bark of a decaying tree, in 

 kSouth Carolina; I have not met with any in this State. 



[Subsequently described by Latreille as JIarjialus monili- 

 iornis. — Lec] 



HARPALUS Latr. 



Anterior tibiae emarginate ; four anterior tarsi dilated in the 

 male; elytra entire ; antennae filiform, joints subcylindical ; lab- 

 rum subquadrate, entire, or very slightly emarginate; palpi fili- 

 form ; tongue exserted, cylindrical and coriaceous in the middle, 

 and membranaceous each side, tip truncate, unarmed ; neck 

 none. [26] 



1. H. CALiGiNOSUS. — Black; antenna;, palpi, tarsi, and ante- 

 rior coxae ferruginous-brown. 



Length one inch, breadth two-fifths nearly. 



Apterous; thorax square, black-obscure ; eljtra striate ; antennae tes- 

 taceous. Inhabits North America. Fabr. Syst. Eleut. 1, p. 188. 



Antennae and palpi ferruginous-brown ; head smooth with two slightly 

 impressed points before ; thorax broad, smooth ; scutel small, tiiangular ; 

 body blaclc : thighs with a range of small impressed points. Oliv. 3, 35, 

 pi. 6, f. 64, and pi. 1, f. 81. 



Carahuspoliius Melsh. Catal. 



Head glabrous ; antennae, palpi, and edge of the labrum ferru- 

 ginous-brown ; an indented puncture each side on the front; lab- 

 rum slightly emarginate at tip ; labium unarmed in the sinus; 

 trunk beneath punctured ; thorax with numerous minute punc- 

 tures, longitudinal line obsolete, area of the hind angles depressed 

 and conflucntly punctured, posterior angles acute ; tarsi and 



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