Tin: siioiiT-wi\'(!];D scavi^xcki; heetlics. 4:!1 



XLVIII. 8ci0CHARELi,A Casey. ]905. 



C'losi'ly related to Seiocharis. Imt differing by the smaller size 

 and ill the characters mentioned in the generic key. One species 

 belongs to the Austroriparian fauna. 



S2."i ( ). SciocHAKET.T.A DELicATUn Casev. TraDS. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 



XV, 1905, 159. 

 Slender, parallel. l';ile tu dull lirowuisli-yello\Y. veiy minutely punc-- 

 tate. alutacedus : legs and antenna' paler. Head piceous, as long as wide, 

 wiliest at the truncate base : eyes situated twice tbeir length from base. 

 Sei-iind antennal joint as loug as tbe next two combined and much thicker. 

 Thorax as long as wide, sc-areely narrower than bead, sides nearly straight, 

 angles scarcely rounded. El\tra quadrate, parallel, much wider than head, 

 a fifth wider and one-fourth longer thau thorax. Length l.S mm. 



Crawford and Posey counties : rare. ^lay 2fi-June 3. Described 

 from Alabama. 



XLIX. Trachysectus Casey. 18S6. 



Represented east of the Eockr\' ilountains by one small piceous 

 species having the gular sutures narrowly separated and nearest to- 

 gether in front of middle ; neck half as wide as head ; third joint of 

 antenn.T distinctly longer than second, the outer joints bead-like; 

 prosternum not carinate; upper surface coarsely and densely punc- 

 tured. 



si!G (2560). Trachysectus cosfluexs Say. lYans. Amer. Phil. Soc., IV, 

 lSo4, 450 ; ibid. II, 571. 



Rather stout parallel, subconvex. Dark reddish-brown to piceous. 

 feeblj' shining ; legs, tips of elyti'a and base of antennis paler. Head wider 

 than long, as wide as elytra, its hind angles broadly rounded; densely, 

 coarsely and sti'igosely punctured. Thorax narrower than head, wider 

 than long; disk with fine, lengthwise wrinkles. Elytra slightly wider and 

 one-third longer than thorax, finely, rather closely and roughly punctate. 

 Abdomen at base slightly narrower than elytra, thence feebly widened to 

 near apex, finely and densely punctate. Sixth ventral of male with a small 

 median notch. Length 3.5 mm. 



Throughout the State; frequent. ^lareh 17-October 17. Oc- 

 curs beneath loose bark and dead leaves and in fungi. When un- 

 covered they run very rapidly. The elytra are not always paler at 

 tips and the thorax is often reddish on the sides. 



L. Paramedox Casey. 19(15. (Gr.. "over + provider."') 

 The principal distinguishing characters of this genus are the 

 strongly dilated front tarsi and the sexual characters of the males. 

 Its members hitherto laiown have all been from the Pacific or South- 

 w-estern States. 



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