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•which the anterior one is near the eye and larger; antennze 

 piceous; jQagellum fuscous; the joints a little broader than long; 

 terminal joint "with the apex rather prominent; mouth dull 

 piceous ; occiput with numerous small punctures ; thorax "with 

 three small dorsal punctures, not reaching the middle of the length; 

 lateral punctures about five, the second and fifth placed a little 

 above the straight line ; marginal punctures two or three ; towards 

 the anterior angles are numerous obsolete discoidal punctures, 

 visible with a strong power ; scutel glabrous, black ; elytra rufous, 

 densely punctured, with short prostrate hairs ; tergum at tip slightly 

 tinged with piceous ; tibije, tarsi and posterior margins of the 

 ventral segments piceous. 



Length over seven-twentieths of an inch. 



This species seems to have some relation to the laficoHis Grav., 

 but the thorax is less dilated, the lateral puncturations are much 

 more numerous ; the elytra are of a different color, &c. Fam. 1st. 



[Belongs to Quedius, considered by Erichson as a variety of Q. 

 fulgidus. — Leg.] 



4. S. BLANDUS Grav. — The reddish color of this handsome 

 insect is of a tint approaching sanguineous. 



Gravenhorst had probably old specimens, of which the color 

 had faded. He describes the feet as " rufo testacei," but in my 

 specimens the tibiae and tarsi are piceous. He says " coleoptera 

 depilia," but my specimens certainly have prostrate hairs on the 

 elytra as well as on the scutel. If this is not in reality Graven- 

 horst's species, it differs in the exceptions I have stated, and can 

 be called Isetulus. Fam. 1st. 



[Belongs to PMlontJius. — Lec] 



5. S. INVERSUS. — Black; dorsal thoracic punctures three. 

 Inhabits Indiana. [450] 

 Head with an orbital puncture, and another above the eye ; 



mouth and antennae piceous; joints of the flagellum rather trans- 

 verse, point of the last joint not prominent ; thorax a little nar- 

 rowed before ; dorsal punctures three, the series nearer each other 

 at tip than near the head and hardly reaching the middle of the 

 length ; lateral two remote, with a single puncture midway be- 

 tween the second and the dorsal series ; marginal one ; scutel 

 glabrous, impunctured; elytra on the disk with but very few hairs; 



[Vol. IV. 



