406 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



only just visibly wider ttiaa the prothoraz, distinctly and rather closely 

 panctared as usual. Length 8.8-4.5 mm.; width 0.55-0.65 mm. Massa- 

 chusetts, New York and Pennaylvania to Iowa and Wisconsin (Bay- 

 field) scolopacea u. sp. 



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

 feebly piceous, the prothorax scarcely visibly less than black; legs pale, 

 the antennae blackl.sh ; head well developed, evidently elongate behind the 

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

 and nearly straight, 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 fine but deep and 

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

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

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

 abdomen parallel, finely and inconspicuously punctulate. Length 6.4 

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



franciscannsn. sp. 



The rather small and 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 



HesperoUmiSj 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. 



Habrolinns n. gen. 



The single very small and slender species constituting this 

 genus bears considerable superficial resemblance to the east- 

 ern Nematolinus longicollit^ especially in its strongly incras- 

 sate antennae, with very transverse and compactly joined dis- 

 tal joints and 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, Nematolinuft 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- 



