Tue PsELAPHIDA OF NoRTH AMERICA. 55 
E. Levicreps, Casey. Brown, legs, antennz, and palpi 
yellowish red; pubescence short, conspicuous. Length 1 mm. 
Head small, as long as wide, eyes large, tempora not longer 
than the eyes; vertex impunctate, occipital fovee small, pubes- 
cent, mutually not more distant than either from the eye, and 
connected by a parabolic, feebly impressed sulcus, frontal 
margin depressed, with the lateral tubercles rounded, promi- 
nent. Amfenne one-half longer than the head, slender, the 
club robust, slightly wider than the eighth; eighth, ninth 
and tenth equal in length; tenth twice as wide as the eighth; 
eleventh a little wider than the tenth and as long as the four 
preceding together. Prothorax slightly wider than the head, 
widest one-third the length from the neck, arcuate toward the 
neck, very feebly sinuate to the base, not quite as long as 
wide; disk convex, polished, indistinctly, minutely, punctulate; 
base three-fourths as wide as the prothorax, with a well defined, 
transverse, sulcus one-third from the posterior limit, triangu- 
larly dilated in the middle, connecting the lateral, rounded, 
pubescent foveew; the median dilatation is connected with the 
base by a distinctly visible carina. /ytra slightly wider than 
the prothorax, slightly longer than wide, sides arcuate, disk 
somewhat depressed, impunctate; shoulders prominent, the 
sutural lines slightly arcuate, discal lines scarcely indicated. 
Abdomen, above impunctate, beneath finely punctulate, the 
dorsal base not carinate; metasternum ciliate behind, in the 
middle with yellow hair. Legs long. 
Habitat. Maryland. 
E. crinitus, Brend. Brown, punctulate; pubescence very 
dense, giving an opaque aspect to the surface. Length 1.6 
mm. Plate XI., Fig. 106. Plate XII., Fig. 123. 
Head broader than long, eyes moderately prominent, large, 
tempora as long as the eye, slightly arcuate, convergent; 
occiput sinuate, with a deep indentation in the middle, sides 
convergent before the eyes, supra-antennal tubercles very 
prominent; frontal margin anteriorly convex, or obtusely angu- 
late, frontal impression between the antennal tubercles shal 
