138 NORTH AMERICAN 



Cape May, New Jersey, 5. 



Tliis species is somewhat abundant under debris on tlie sea-beach 

 at Cape May, and can easily be distinguished from exigiius by its 

 dark legs, sexual character and structure of the head. The anterior 

 tarsi in the female are spongy beneath, but slightly less dilated than 

 in the male. 



O. piinctatllS n. sp. — Very slender, filiform, rather convex, intense 

 black tlirougliout, polished, punctate; abdomen alutaceous, coarsely granu- 

 lose ; antennae, tibiae, tarsi and second joint of the maxillary palpi dark 

 fuscous ; femora and third joint of the maxillary palpi very dark piceous- 

 black ; labial palpi very pale rtavo-testaceous, rather opaque ; pubescence 

 fine and very sparse except on the abdomen where it is slightly dense, pale 

 fulvous. Head longer than wide ; sides behind the eyes parallel, distinctly 

 but feebly arcuate, truncate at base ; posterior angles rather broadly rounded ; 

 eyes small, feebly convex, at nearly twice their length from the base ; inter- 

 ocular surface and occiput strongly convex, declivous at the base and sides 

 behind the eyes, scarcely punctate anteriorly, finely evenly and rather 

 densely so posteriorly and laterally; punctures round, very small, rather 

 deep, seijarated by scarcely twice their own widths ; not punctate but very 

 minutely ruguloso-strigate beneath, broadly and rather feebly arcuate ante- 

 riorly between the antennal tuberculations which are small and not very 

 prominent ; labrum strongly rugose anteriorly, middle teeth stout, acute at 

 tip and well marked ; antennae about one-half longer than the head, rather 

 slender, very feebly incrassate toward tip, basal joint moderately thick, as 

 long as the next two together, second much longer than the third ; basal 

 supports of the labial palpi very prominent, appeaj-ing like a basal joint, 

 first joint small cylindrical, as long as wide, second twice as long, oval, 

 scarcely thicker, third very thin acicular throughout, shorter than the 

 second ; second joint of the maxillary palpi thin, slightly bent and very 

 feebly thicker toward tip, third much longer than the second, more than 

 twice as thick, twice as long as wide, very thin at base, strongly and evenly 

 clavate, narrowly truncate at tip, fourth scarcely visible, extreruely minute, 

 oblique, subulate. Prothorax slightly shorter than the head and distinctly 

 narrower ; sides from the apex very strongly divergent and feebly arcuate 

 for one-fourth the length, thence just visibly convergent to the basal angles 

 and nearly straight ; basal angles rounded ; apex equal in width to the neck, 

 transverse, two-fifths as wide as<the pronotum ; base transverse; disk rather 

 convex, about one-fourth longer than wide, rather sparsely coarsely irregu- 

 larly and very feebly punctate ; medial longitudinal area impunctate. Scu- 

 tellum small, very transverse. Elytra at base much wider than the head ; 

 sides parallel, feebly arcuate ; together broadly roundly and very feebly 

 sinuate behin<l ; apical angles rounded ; disk rather convex, rather coarsely 

 evenly and extremely feebly punctate ; punctures round, distant by one-half 

 more than their own widths ; somewhat more than one-third longer than the 

 j)ronotum, and more than one-third longer than wide. Abdomen at base 

 distinctly narrower than the elytra; sides divergent and straight, and the 



