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only just visibly wider than the protborax, distinctly aud rather closely 

 punctured as usual. Length 3.8-4.5 ram.; width 0.55-0.65 ram. Massa- 

 chusetts, New York and Pennsylvania to Iowa aud Wisconsin (Bay- 

 field) scolopacea n. sp. 



i — Body much stouter than in the preceding species, black, the elytra 

 feebly plceous, the prothorax scarcely visibly less than black; le2;8 pale, 

 the antennae blackish ; head well developed, evidently elongate behind the 

 antennae, the latter distinctly longer than the head; sides subparallel 

 and nearly «traight, the basal angles rounded; punctures rather fine 

 but deep, only moderately dense, separated by about their own diame- 

 ters; prothorax less elongate, with the sides rather strongly converg- 

 ing, distinctly narrower than the head, the punctures line but deep and 

 less close-set than usual; elytra large, longur than wide, fully as long 

 as the prothorax aud much wider, obviously wider than the head, the 

 punctures small but deep, close-set and confused almost throughout; 

 abdomen parallel, finely and inconspicuously puuctulate. Length 5.4 

 mm.; width 0.9 mm. California (Lake Co.), — Chas. Fuchs. 



franciscinns n. sp. 

 The rather small aud monotonous members of this genus 

 may prove to be rather numerous in the colder parts of the 

 Pacific coast faunal province, largely replacing the genus 

 Hesperolinus, which is somewhat more developed in the 

 southern coast region. The eastern scolopacea is abundant 

 and widely diffused but appears to have been overlooked by 

 the older authors. 



Habroliniis n. gen. 



The single very small and slender species constituting this 

 genus bears considerable superficial resemblance to the east- 

 ern Nematolinus longicollis, especially in its strongly incras- 

 sate antennae, with very transverse and compactly joined dis- 

 tal joints aud elongate second joint, but, besides the distin- 

 guishing character of the maxillary palpi, the present genus 

 differs in having the prosternum before the coxae as in all 

 the preceding genera of this subtribe and not narrowed by the 

 intrusion of the somewhat dilated anterior part of the hypo- 

 mera, characterizing, if not peculiar to, Kematolinus and 

 Lithocharodes. It seems necessary therefore to propose a 

 separate genus for this obscure though interesting form. 

 The virtually obsolete median frontal grooves and correspond- 

 ingly distinct and conspicuous oblique ocular grooves, consti- 

 tutes a very remarkable feature. The prosternum is gradu- 



