4o2 FAMILY XT. — STAI'TIYI-INI n.H. 



S127 ( ). Pakamedon FALU sp. IKIV. 



Elongate, ratlier slender, parallel. Dark reddish-brown, finely and 

 sparsely pubescent ; antenntB, legs and last two segments of abdomen paler. 

 Head subquadrate. sides straight and parallel behind the eyes; surface 

 finely and rather densely punctate above, more sparsely beneath, the gular 

 sutures very close together. Antenna- reaching almost to base of thorax, 

 basal joint as long as the next three; two to five oval, subiNiual, longer 

 flian wide; six to ten transversi', eleventh slightly lunger. Thorax nearly 

 si|uare, sides almost straight, angles roun<led, disk finely and rather closely 

 punctate. Elytra slightly wider and one-fourth longer than thorax, finely 

 and densely ])unetate. Abdomen very finely and more densely punctate. 

 Hind margin ot tifth ventral ol' male with ,i liroad and sliallow niundetl 

 emargination, on each side ol' wliich is a tult of short stilt black bristles. 

 Ijength 4 mm. 



Stinilien County; rare. Mnx 25. Sifted from a nest of moiise 

 at border of spliagiinm inai'sh. Named in honor of II, (". Fall of 

 Pasadena, California. 



LI. PsEUDOMKooN Rev. 1870. (Gr., "false -i- provider.") 



Small, slender species, with the entii'c tipper surface very finely 

 and densely pnnctate, subopaqtie ; h(>ad small; gular sutures very 

 tine, widely separated, nearest together in front, thence widely di- 

 verging to liase ; nock two-fifths as wide as head ; front tarsi strongly 

 dilated in both sexes. Two species have been taken in the State. 



N2S ( ). PsEUDOMEDO.x RUFicOLLB Casey, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. L.. XV. 



i!.)ori, iss. 



Elongate, slender. Head, elytra and abdomen dark reddish-brown ; 

 thorax ijale dull red; auteun:e and legs paler. Head as long as wide, three- 

 fourths as wide as thorax, its sides behind the eyes parallel and rounded 

 into base. Thorax sulKjuadrate, as long as wide, sides feebly curvi'd, the 

 angles broadly rounded. Elytra one-third longer and slightl.v wider than 

 thorax. Abdomen ;it base as wide .-is elytra, thence distinctly tiipering to 

 ajiex. Sixth ventral of male with a small ronndwl emargination at aiiex. 

 Length 4 mm. 



Steuben, Starke. Marion, Putnam aiid Posey counties; scarce. 

 April 23-Oct()l)er 17. Tal^en l)y sifting vegetable debris. 



■^2!! ( ). PsEUDOMEDOx THOR.wici'M ( "asey, Ti'ans. Aead, Sci. St. L., X\', 



i!)Or,, iss. 



Konii of preceding. Uniform black ov very darlv piceous ; antenna- and 

 legs paler. Head almost as wide as lliorax, I he latter slightly wider than 

 long, as wide almost as el,\lra ; olUerwise as viiflvitilf. Length '■\S\ mm. 



^larshall C(nuity; rare. ]\lay 20. Taken from beneath rubbish 

 at margin of lake. 



