THE PsELAPHIDA OF NorTH AMERICA. 67 
conspicuously carinate; space between the carine at the base 
pubescent, margin flat. 
Habitat. Eastern States. 
E. CONGENER, Casey. Form slender, head large, wider than 
long, prothorax as wide as the head, rather longer than wide, 
humeral width as great as that of the head, elytra slightly 
longer than wide; color brown, legs paler, pubescence short, 
coarse, dense, conspicuous. Length 1.5 mm. 
Head slightly punctulate, eyes large, prominent, tempora 
very convergent, longer than the eye, base sinuate, impressed 
in the middle; more than one-third from the base are two 
minute, pubescent fovese, mutually not more distant than 
either from the eye; the connecting sulcus is extended on to 
the tempora, the enclosed space narrow, convex, impunctate; 
frontal tubercles large, angulate, frontal ridge depressed in 
the middle. Antenne one-half longer than the head, third to 
eighth joints moniliform; eighth smallest; ninth twice as wide; 
tenth longer and wider, two-thirds wider than the ninth; the 
last is as long as wide, slightly wider than the tenth, acumi- 
nate and annulate at the apex. Prothorax as wide as the 
head, widest before the middle, nearly as wide as long, feebly 
arcuate at the sides anteriorly, posteriorly convergent, nearly 
straight, feebly undulate; neck half as wide as the disk; disk 
minutely and sparsely punctulate, convex, with a small elon- 
gated puncture before the middle; one-fourth from the base a 
narrow, arcuate sulcus connects the deep, triangular, median 
impression with the deep, round, pubescent, lateral foveze. 
£tlytra, across the high shoulders, as wide as the the head; 
sides arcuate; disk slightly longer than wide, convex, impunc- 
tate, sutural lines parallel, lateral ones broadly impressed, 
‘abbreviated before the anterior third. Addomen with the 
sides divergent posteriorly, first three dorsals equal, the two 
basal ones with approximate divergent carina. Legs slender. 
é, third segment minutely produced behind in the middle, 
fourth with a small tubercle in the center. 
Habitat. Virginia. 
