American Caraboidea 283 



bearing short setae. Length 10.0-11.5 mm.; width 3.85-4.4 mm. 

 North Carolina (Southern Pines), — Manee. [Cymindis complanata 

 Dej., and russata Newm.] platicollis Say 



Setigerous dorsal punctures definitely two in number, as usual in the 

 genus 9 



9 — Elytra short, not over a third longer than wide. Color piceous; 

 sides of the pronotum widely, and of the elytra more narrowly, pale 

 rufous; under surface rufo-piceous; legs bright fiavo-rufous, the 

 epi pleura pale flavate; head moderate, scarcely more than two- 

 thirds as wide as the prothorax, with somewhat prominent eyes; 

 surface very smooth throughout, plicatulate antero-laterally; an- 

 tennae slender, rufous, three-sevenths as long as the body; pro- 

 thorax a third wider than long, widest before the middle, the sides 

 broadly rounded, widely and evenly reflexed, oblique and straighter 

 in about basal half, the hind angles obtuse, with the tips rather 

 well defined, though not sharp, and very slightly prominent; surface 

 with some transverse rugulse medially, smooth, feebly punctulate 

 at the sides but less distinctly at apex and base, the anterior im- 

 pression obtuse but visible; basal impression deep, transverse, 

 interrupted at the middle; median stria fine, biabbreviated; elytra 

 three-fourths wider than the prothorax, the external apical angles 

 very broadly rounded; striae rather deep, moderately fine, very 

 minutely and closely but clearly punctulate; intervals not quite 

 flat, alternating but slightly; fine punctures of the single series 

 feeble, equal; dorsal punctures coarse, at the third stria, just before 

 the middle and at apical fourth or fifth. Length 9.0 mm.; width 

 3.65 mm. Colorado. Levette collection abbreviata n. sp. 



Elytra more elongate, subparallel, barely at all wider posteriorly 10 



10 — Surface moderately convex, polished, the elytra feebly alutaceous, 

 blackish-piceous, the elytra black, the reflexed margins of pronotum 

 and elytra diapfianously pale; under surface black, piceous an- 

 teriorly; legs and epipleura dark rufous, the femora more flavate; 

 head elongate, nearly three-fourths as wide as the prothorax, with 

 large and rather prominent eyes; surface very smooth, with some 

 punctulation and very few plicae antero-laterally; antennae dark 

 rufous, fully two-fifths as long as the body; prothorax transverse, 

 fully a third wider than long, widest a little before the middle, with 

 broadly and subevenly arcuate, broadly, equally reflexed sides, 

 gradually a little more converging basally, the hind angles obtuse, 

 with the tips bluntly subprominent; base broadly, feebly lobed, 

 obliquely feebly arcuate laterally; apex sinuate, with broadly 

 rounded angles which bear a small cluster of setae; basal impression 

 large, continued anteriorly, sparsely punctulate, narrowly inter- 

 rupted at the middle; impressions subobsolete; median stria fine, 

 subentire; surface nearly smooth, punctulate peripherally; elytra 

 one-half longer than wide, three-fourths wider than the prothorax, 

 with very broadly rounded external angles at apex; striae fine, 

 closely micro-punctulate; intervals not quite flat; line of confused 

 minute punctures of the wider intervals narrow, occupying less than 

 median third; dorsal punctures at two and four fifths. Length 



