198 Memoirs on the Coleoptera 



single puncture on the third coarse, near or adjoining the second 

 stria near three- fifths; anterior male tarsi very obscure rufous, 

 well dilated. Length (cf ) 15.3 mm.; width 5.4 mm. North Caro- 

 lina (Southern Pines), — Manee pinorum n. sp. 



10 — Body moderately narrow, feebly ventricose, convex, deep black and 

 highly polished throughout in the male, the legs rufous distally; 

 head slightly more than half as wide as the prothorax, with moderate 

 but prominent eyes, the anterior sulci narrow, deep and slightly 

 diverging, the mandibles rather small; palpi rufous, the last joint 

 barely shorter than the third, elongate-oval, with rather narrowly 

 truncate apex; antennae somewhat longer than the head and pro- 

 thorax, the latter a fifth wider than long, widest near apical third, 

 the sides finely reflexed, almost evenly arcuate from apex to the 

 basal sinus and thence nearly parallel for a short distance to the 

 right and well defined angles, the apical angles broadly rounded; 

 apical incised line very fine, only visible laterally, the median stria 

 finer than in any of the preceding and slightly biabbreviated ; trans- 

 verse impressions obsolete; rugulae fine, remote and feeble; foveae 

 linear, deeply impressed, narrow along the bottom, the outer ridge 

 wanting, the bottom moderately concave; impression near the 

 foveae rounded, smooth and distinct though very shallow; base 

 sinuate, three-fifths as wide as the apex; elytra oblong-oval, three- 

 fifths longer than wide, a fourth wider than the prothorax, rather 

 rapidly narrowing behind, with long and obvious shallow sinus; 

 striae rather coarse and well impressed, strongly punctate, the sixth 

 and seventh obsolescent basally, the punctures somewhat abruptly 

 obsolete in nearly apical third; scutellar stria wanting; intervals 

 moderately convex, the single puncture coarse, on the second stria 

 just behind the middle; surface between the smooth eighth stria 

 and the margin more widely declivo-replanate posteriorly than 

 usual; ninth stria very fine and subobsolete, much further from the 

 margin than from the eighth; anterior male tarsi rather more 

 moderately dilated. Length (cf) 12.0 mm.; width 4.4 mm. Ala- 

 bama (Allen), — Loding alabamensis n. sp. 



Body narrower but rather more ventricose, smaller in size, deep black, 

 the under surface and legs more or less piceo-rufous; upper surface 

 highly polished, the elytra opaculate in the female; head and pro- 

 thorax relatively much smaller than in the preceding; head fully 

 three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, with prominent eyes, the 

 anterior sulci narrow, nearly parallel; labrum rufous; mandibles 

 small, the strigae fine and feeble; palpi pale rufous, nearly as in the 

 preceding; antennae fully as long as the head and prothorax, a 

 little longer (cf) ; prothorax in almost every respect as in alabamensis, 

 though smaller in size and with the foveae still more reduced in 

 every way, the inner lineate part fine, the surface thence to the 

 sides smooth, scarcely at all concave; sides behind the sinus very 

 short, feebly converging to the more obtuse and less sharply marked 

 angles; elytra oblong-oval, one-half longer than wide, two-fifths 

 wider than the prothorax, the shallow subapical sinus distinct; 

 striae (cf) rather coarsely impressed and strongly punctate, the 



