140 Memoirs on the Coleoptera 



It is probable that punctatus Lee, is a valid species, unknown to 

 me at present; it is from the Lake Superior region, and the author 

 states that there is but one scutellar stria or series and that the 

 sutural stria is not recurved and exarate at tip, which would differ- 

 entiate it very clearly from any of the related species, if these 

 singular characters are constant; it might be accorded specific 

 standing, until something more definite can be learned concerning it. 



Mr. Fall has suppressed hardyi Putz., as a synonym of aguaticiis 

 Linn. Without actually knowing the Linnean species, I am in- 

 clined to think that this course may prove to be erroneous for two 

 reasons. In the first place, I have found in numerous instances in 

 which American have been declared the same as European species, 

 that such identification was false and due entirely to hasty and 

 superficial observation, and, without venturing any more definite 

 conclusion in the present instance, it becomes, with me at least, a 

 source of grave uncertainty. This is accentuated by the second 

 reason, which rests upon the fact that Putzeys, an able and en- 

 thusiastic student of the Carabidae, who was perfectly familiar with 

 aguaticiis, described hardyi as a distinct species. I have a single 

 example, which I refer to this species, from Marquette, Michigan; 

 it is rather slender, somewhat resembling novemstriatus in habitus, 

 but with relatively narrower second strial interval, more separated 

 striae and with the striae obsolete for a long distance before the apex; 

 the outer two or three striae are obsolete except basally; the sides 

 of the pro thorax are sinuate and parallel at base. 



The two following species are allied to simulator Fall : 



Notiophilus sierranus n. sp. — Slender, polished throughout and black, 

 with aeneous lustre, which is wanting beneath; legs black, the tibiae 

 rufescent; head scarcely at all wider than the prothorax; front with 

 five medial striae; antennae black, the four basal joints testaceous; 

 prothorax four-fifths wider than long, widest and with rounded sides 

 near apical third, the sides moderately oblique and straight thence to 

 the base, just visibly and broadly sinuate toward the angles; surface 

 smooth, with short and deeply impressed median stria, rather closely 

 punctate peripherally, the basal foveae rounded, rather deep and coarsely, 

 densely punctate; elytra four-fifths longer than wide, evidently wider 

 than the prothorax, parallel, with broadly and subevenly arcuate sides; 

 striae scarcely at all impressed, with rather strong and well spaced punc- 

 tures, which become very gradually finer behind and are traceable almost 

 to the apex; seventh only distinct basally, exarate at apex; first stria 

 composed of very fine punctures; second interval not as wide as three 



