American Caraboidea 179 



In a considerable series of species received some time ago as 

 having been collected on St. Paul Island in Bering Sea, there was 

 one Brennus; whether or not this had been taken really on St. 

 Paul Island, I have no way of proving, but at any rate it differs 

 from anything elSe in my collection, being perhaps most closely 

 related to integer, differing in its relatively much larger prothorax; 

 it may be described as follows: 



Brennus beringi n. sp. — Body small in size, rather convex, deep black, 

 the elytral margins faintly violaceous; elytra polished, the anterior 

 parts strongly shining; head only moderately elongate, half as wide as 

 the prothorax, smooth, with a few feeble transverse wrinkles; antennae 

 moderate in length, brown, the first four joints black, the fifth not quite 

 four times as long as wide; prothorax relatively large, somewhat wider 

 than long, the sides well reflexed, inflated and subevenly rounded, be- 

 coming not very abruptly oblique and nearly straight behind to the 

 subbasal sinus, thence parallel and straight in almost basal fifth; base 

 transverse, with a feeble beveled beading, distinctly less than half the 

 maximum width; transverse impressions rather deep, the stria deeply 

 impressed; foveae wholly obsolete, the surface with rather close-set fine 

 creases; elytra oval and somewhat over one-half longer than wide, not 

 quite twice as wide as the prothorax, the arcuate sides gradually but 

 little more rounded basally; stria? coarse, deeply impressed, strongly 

 punctured, the sculpture confused or broken in lateral third, those 

 which are more or less entire eleven in number; margins rather broadly 

 reflexed; anterior male tarsi narrow and slender; apical third of the 

 first and the entire second and third joints spongy-pubescent beneath. 

 Length (cf ) 13.0 mm.; width 6.0 mm. Alaska (St. Paul Island). 



This species is named in honor of the distinguished Danish 

 navigator Vitus Bering, this being the most modern spelling of the 

 name, though formerly it? frequently took the form of Behring or 

 even Beering; when accurately known the spelling in the specific 

 name can be altered. 



The. following is one of the more notably elongate of the non- 

 metallic species of the genus: 



Brennus procerus n. sp.— Very elongate, rather convex, black, moder- 

 ately shining throughout; head well developed, slightly more than half 

 as wide as the prothorax, smooth though with rather numerous pro- 

 nounced transverse wrinkles; epistoma deeply canaliculate apically, the 

 suture fine, deeply sinuate; antenna? rather more than half as long as 

 the body; prothorax relatively rather large, barely visibly wider than 

 long, the sides strongl^y reflexed, inflated and subevenly arcuate an- 

 teriorly, gradually oblique and neady straight posteriorly, becoming 

 rapidly parallel in basal sixth; transverse impressions distinct, the 

 posterior bisinuate; stria sharply and deeply impressed; foves faintly 



