A NEW NOMARETUS FROM NORTH CAROUNA 139 



1911. Palaearctic species which may be regioneJ are G. annandalei 

 Edw. (Jour, and Proc. Asiatic Soc. Bengal (new series), vol. 9, no. 1 , 

 pp. 47, 48, 1913) from Palestine and G. avocetta Alex. (Can. Ent, 

 vol. 45, no. 7, pp. 205, 206, 1913) from Japan. 



A NEW PYRALID FROM NEWFOUNDLAND 



{Lepidoptera, Pyralida) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



Pyrausta beddeci, new species. 



Pale straw-color, powdered with smoky brown, the shading a little 

 less intense outwardly ; lines dark, somewhat shaded ; inner line of fore 

 wing slender, nearly straight, coarsely dentate on the veins ; outer line 

 broadly excurved in its middle third, the costal and inner portions some- 

 what broadened and shaded, the centred outcurved portion roundedly 

 denticulate; orbicular and reniform represented by two small points. 

 Hind wdng with a single outer line, broadened and shaded throughout, 

 its central portion outcurved, but the general course of the line nearly 

 uniform. Expanse, 23 mm. 



Type, male. No. 16842, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Codroy Valley, New- 

 foundland, July (Maj. E. E. Beddek, late of the British Indian Army). 



A NEW NOMARETUS FROM MOUNT MITCHELL, 

 NORTH CAROLINA 



{Coleoptera, Carabida) 

 By WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER 



Nomaretus schwarzi, new species. 



Female : Uniform chestnut brown above and below. Head smooth 

 with one setiferous puncture on the inner side of the posterior part of each 

 eye. Thorax smooth cordate, well rounded laterally, constricted poste- 

 riorly ; anterior, basal, and median impressions well defined ; lateral mar- 

 gin with two setiferous punctures about the middle and another close to 

 I the hind cingle. Elytra ovate, sides rounded, apex well pointed, humeri 

 wanting, disc somewhat flattened with light abbreviated striae, all termi- 

 [nating some distance from tlie apex, the first, second, and third deeply 



