70 contributions to canadian paleontology. 



Oarabidab. 

 Loricera exita sp. nov. 

 PI. VI., Fig. 1. 



Represented by a single nearly complete elytron, the central portion 

 obscured by clay which will not bear removal without injury to the 

 specimen. The humerus is very gently rounded, and there are seven 

 rather deeply impressed, very feebly punctate strise, with the intervals 

 nearly flat ; the whole is of a dead black colour. It comes near L. 10. 

 punctata Esoh., but the strise are less heavily punctate than in any of our 

 species of Loricera ; the fourth interval shows, just before the place where 

 it is obscured by clay, signs of a cross-line connecting the third and fourth 

 strise, such as is found in L. 10-punctata, but this is not shown in the 

 figure. The length of the fragment is 3-2 °™, and its breadth 1-55 °™ ; 

 the probable length of the elytron is 3-8 "" 



One specimen: No. 16813, Scarborough. 



L. 10-punctata is found on the Pacific Coast from Alaska to Cali- 

 fornia. 



Nebria abstracta sp. nov. 

 PI. VI., Fig. 2. 



The basal half of an elytron represents a species of Nebria allied to 

 If. carbonaria Esch. It is piceous, with well rounded humerus, a brief 

 humeral stria and sevsn well impressed, distinctly punctate strise, besides 

 the marginal stria, with fewer but stout puncta ; the intervals are nearly 

 flat. It differs from N. carbonaria, to which it is closely allied, by its 

 slightly smaller size, the more pronounced puncta of the marginal stria 

 near the shoulder, the rather flatter intervals, and the more pronounced 

 punctuation of the strise generally. The length of the fragment is 

 2-6"°", its breadth 1-6 "" ; the probable length of the elytron is 5-5 ""- 



One specimen : No. 16805, Reservoir Park, Toronto. 

 If. carbonaria is known only from Alaska. 



Bembidium haywardi sp. nov. 

 PI. VI., Pig. 3. 



A single complete elytron represents a species apparently falling in the 

 coxendix group and of slender form. The humerus is rounded subangu- 

 late, rather than rounded as appears in the figure (due to the point of 

 view from which it was drawn), the strise are entire though obscure at 



