American Caraboidea 205 



nearly so suturad; dorsal puncture completely wanting; tarsi slender, 

 deep black. Length (9 ) 10. mm.; width 4.0 mm. Illinois (Homer), 



The only species with which this can be compared is ohtusa 

 Lee, said to be from the vicinity of Long's Peak, in the Rocky Mts., 

 but ohtiisa is a slightly larger species, 11 mm. in length, having the 

 transverse pronotal impressions distinct, the anterior angulate, 

 the posterior transverse, the foveae apparently somewhat shorter, 

 the scutellar stria wanting and the sides of the prothorax seemingly 

 more rounded before the middle; here, if anything, they are rather 

 more rounded just behind the middle than elsewhere. Parallela 

 is, however, rather closely allied to obtusa, and the two constitute a 

 remarkably isolated group of the genus. 



Dicaelus Bon. 



I have recently received from Mr. Manee two specimens which 



may represent the Georgean planicollis of LeConte; it is still stouter 



and more opaque than carolinensis, with less irregular pronotum, 



the indentation made upon the sublateral obtuse ridge by the 



internal lateral channel being obsolete; this is always very evident 



in the latter species, which seems to be much the more abundant 



of the two in the vicinity of Southern Pines. The following belongs 



to the elojigatus group of the genus: 



Dicaelus ashevillensis n. sp. — Form narrow, elongate and with the 

 upper surface almost flat, black, opaculate throughout above; hypomera 

 and epipleura polished, the rest of the under surface rather alutaceous; 

 epipleura concave and having one 6r two rows of small feeble punctures; 

 legs deep black, with blackish set«, the soles of the anterior male tarsi 

 clothed with bright fulvous and whiter scales; head moderate, nearly 

 four-sevenths as wide as the prothorax, the eyes moderate but convex 

 and prominent; anterior impressions deep and punctiform; labrum 

 evenly, shallowly and angularly emarginate, the median furrow distinct; 

 mandibles small; antennae slender, black, gradually bright ferruginous 

 distally; prothorax as long as wide, parallel and nearly straight at the 

 sides to beyond the middle, gradually arcuately narrowed thence to the 

 deeply sinuate apex, which is very much narrower than the base, the 

 basal sinus pronounced, with transverse bottom; surface with minute 

 rugulosity and fine transverse lines, the stria deep, almost entire; at 

 each side of the median line behind the middle there is a fine linear im- 

 pression, slightly oblique and well defined, and, exterior to the lines, a 

 long feeble obtuse ridge; sides broadly concave and having three seti- 

 gerous punctures; elytra three-fourths longer than wide, just visibly 

 wider than the prothorax, evenly ogivally rounded behind; lateral 

 ridge from the humeri very acutely elevated, disappearing near apical 



