2o6 Memoirs on the Coleoptera 



fourth; striae deep, smooth, the intervals subequal, moderately convex. 

 Length (cf) 15.0 mm.; width 5.3 mm. North Carolina (Asheville). 

 A single example, taken by the writer. 



This species has the elytra! intervals much less unequally elevated 

 than in elongatus or simplex, resembling dehiliceps more in this 

 respect. The body is less elongate and smaller than in the first 

 two named and has a slightly larger head, with much more promi- 

 nent eyes than the last; it has the sides of the prothorax parallel 

 for a longer distance anteriorly than in any of the three, and the 

 fine oblique pronotal lines are more shallowly impressed. 



The four species of the elongatus group can be distinguished 

 easily among themselves as follows: 



Elytra narrowing posteriorly from well behind the middle. 



Last abdominal segment ( 9 ) evenly rounded from side to side. 



elongatus Bon. 

 Last segment arcuately subtruncate; head smaller in size. 



debiliceps Csy. 

 Elytra narrowing posteriorly from the middle and less elongate. 

 Prothorax narrowing anteriorly from behind the middle. 



simplex Dej. 

 Prothorax narrowing from before the middle; body narrower, the 

 head smaller, with smaller but more prominent eyes. 



ashevillensis Csy. 



Badister Clairv. 

 The species described by LeConte from Georgia as Badister 

 micans (Proc. Acad. Phila., 1844, p. 52) is probably not a Badister, 

 for its dimensions are given as 9 by 3.75 mm. {4.I4. by ij^ !.)• The 

 prothorax is described as flat, black, margined with brown, the 

 sides sinuate near the posterior angles; elytra iridescent, not 

 sinuate apically, the striae rather deep, with flat intervals, the third 

 with two punctures. The antennae are brown, with the two basal 

 joints paler. In the subsequent remarks the author intimates 

 that it differs much in general appearance from the other species 

 and may perhaps be generically different. The Badister micans 

 nexJL described by the author (Ann. Lyceum N. Y., IV, 1846, 

 p. 318) is a very different species, 6 by 1.8 mm. in dimensions, with 

 the thoracic angles obtuse and somewhat rounded. What the 

 original micans can be I have no means of knowing, and, although 

 it may be permissible to shift the type label to a species allied to 

 the original type and not differing materially from the characters 



