The PselaphidvE of North America. 55 



E. LEVicEPS, Casey. Brown, legs, antennae, and palpi 

 yellowish red; pubescence short, conspicuous. Length i mm. 



Head small, as long as wide, eyes large, tempora not longer 

 than the eyes; vertex impunctate, occipital fove« 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. Antennce one-half longer than the head, slender, the 

 club robust, sHghtly wider than the eighth; eighth, ninth 

 and tenth equal in length; tenth twdce 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, 

 w'idest one-third the length from the neck, arcuate toward- the 

 neck, ver}- feebly sinuate to the base, not quite as long as 

 wide; disk convex, polished, indistinct!}', 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 fove^e; the median dilatation is connected with the 

 base by a distinctly visible carina. Elytra 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, Brcnd. Brown, punctulate; pubescence very 

 dense, giving an opaque aspect to the surface. Length 1.6 

 mm. Plate XL, 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- 



