Coleopterological Notices, V. 323 



I have not been able to identify angularis Makl., and transcribe 

 the original short diagnosis; it is evidently a species allied to cali- 

 ginosa, but differing in the pale sides of the prothorax. Fauveli 

 Shp. is abundant throughout the United States from Pennsylvania 

 to Los Angeles, Cal. ; I have taken it at Galveston and Waco in 

 Texas. Budis Lee. is a large and very distinct species, with ex- 

 tremely coarse and rugose pronotal sculpture. 



in. caliginosa n. sp. — Parallel, black, the legs and antennse toward 

 base dark rufo-testaceous ; apices of tbe two or three basal tergites sometimes 

 very briefly pale ; elytra fusco-testaceous, feebly, triangularly clouded toward 

 base and toward the lateral apical angles with piceous ; head and pronotum 

 minutely reticulate, alutaceous, extremely finely and not very densely punc- 

 tate ; elytra and abdomen polished, the former finely but distinctly, densely 

 punctate, the latter impunctate, with the exception of a few fine punctures 

 near the apical margins ; pubescence fine, extremely short and inconspicuous, 

 each tergite with a sparse apical fringe of longer hairs. Head slightly wider 

 than long, fully three-fourths as wide as the prothorax, constricted at base ; 

 eyes very large, at less than one-half their length from the base ; antennse 

 rather compressed, separated at base by the length of the eye, thick, mode- 

 rately incrassate, a little longer than the head and prothorax, basal joint 

 moderately thick, as long as the next two, third obconieal, barely twice as 

 long as wide, four to nine equal in length, gradually much wider, loosely 

 perfoliate, the latter twice as wide as long, tenth equal in width but a little 

 longer, eleventh conoidal, pointed, rather longer than the two preceding. 

 Prothorax fully three-fourths wider than long, the sides subparallel, broadly 

 arcuate, becoming straight and feebly convergent toward base, the basal 

 angles very obtuse and blunt ; the apical rounded ; base broadly arcuate, 

 about as wide as the apex ; disk even, with a very fine, frequently entirely 

 obsolete, impressed line, without antebasal impression. Elytra transverse, 

 slightly but distinctly wider and longer than the prothorax ; humeri some- 

 what exposed ; suture not impressed. Abdomen subequal to the anterior parts, 

 very slightly narrower than the elytra ; sides subparallel, feebly arcuate ; 

 first three segments deeply equally and not very widely impressed at base ; 

 fifth shorter than the fourth. Legs slender ; posterior tarsi long but much 

 shorter than the tibiae, the first joint as long as the next two. Length S.0 

 mm. ; width 0.85 mm. 



New York (Catskill Mts.); Indiana. 



A somewhat common species, resembling a stout Atheta and 

 easily recognizable by tbe large prominent eyes. 



M. angUStula n. sp. — Narrow, parallel, convex, polished throughout, 

 dark piceous ; pronotum slightly paler and rufescent ; elytral humeri and a 

 narrow apical margin, first three abdominal segments except at base, legs and 

 antennae pale flavate ; head, pronotum and elytra extremely minutely, evenly, 



