762 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



STAPHYLINIDiE. 



LatliroMum abscessum Scudd., Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr. 

 ii, 79. — Two specimens were found by Mr. Eichardson, and since the 

 description of the species three others by myself at the same locality. 



Bledius adamus. — A rather poorly preserved specimen (No. 4081) 

 shows the dorsal view of the body without the legs or antennae. It 

 is of about the size of B. annularis LeC, and resembles it in general 

 appearance, but seems to have shorter tegmina, although these are 

 obscure ; it is also a rather slenderer species. The head is large, as 

 broad as tbe thorax, with rather large eyes. The thorax is quadrate, 

 and the elytra together quadrate, and of the same size as the thorax. 

 The abdomen beyond the elytra is as long as the rest of the body ; api- 

 cally it expands somewhat, and the extremity is shaped as in the species 

 mentioned. 



Length of body 4.4™" 5 breadth of thorax 0.75"™. 



Stajphylinites ohsoletum Scudd., Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr, 

 ii, 78. — A single specimen found by Mr. Eichardson. 



NITIDULID^. 



FhenoUa incapax Scudd., Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr, ii, 

 80. — One specimen and its reverse, found by Mr. Eichardson. 



CEYPTOPHAGID^. 



Antherophagus prisons Scudd., Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr, 

 ii, 79-80. — Several specimens, found by Mr. Eichardson, Mr. Bowditch, 



and myself. 



ELATBEID^. 



Corymbites velatus Scudd., Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr, ii, 

 81.— Found by Mr. Eichardson. 



PTINID^. 



Sitodrepa defuncta Scudd., Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr, ii, 

 82. — A single elytron and its reverse, found by Mr. Eichardson. 



Anobium f ovale. — A single specimen (No. 4038) exhibits the upper sur- 

 face of the pronotum and elytra. The insect evidently appertains to a 

 distinct genus of Ptinidce, in which the sides of the body are not parallel, 

 but the body tapers posteriorly much, though not to the same extent, as 

 anteriorly. It is, however, most nearly allied to Anobium, in which it is 

 provisionally placed. It is about as large as Undecatomus rugosus LeO. 

 The prothorax, viewed from above, is bluntly conical, tapering rapidly. 

 The body is broadest just behind the base of the elytra, and tapers 

 slightly at first, more rapidly afterward, and is rounded posteriorly; 

 thus the whole body has an ovate outline. The pronotum is minutely 

 and very profusely punctulate in black, and appears to have been cov- 



