248 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [542] 
“ Elongate oval, more attenuate in front, black, with slight olivaceous 
tinge; surface densely, finely, and equally punctured. Head with a 
sigmoid row of coarse punctures on each side, meeting at the vertex. 
Antenne and palpi testaceous. Thorax with a small fovea on each side, 
near the anterior margin, behind and within the eyes, and an angulate 
row of punctures on each side near the middle, and a few coarse punc- 
tures very irregularly disposed. Elytra with four strie of moderate 
punctures, the first two sutural and extending nearly from base to apex, 
inclosing at base a short scutellar row; the outer two rows subhumeral, 
obliterated at base, extending nearly to apex, and becoming confused, 
extending toward the inner rows. Body beneath black, opaque, and 
pubescent, abdomen with a row of brownish patches at the sides of 
each segment. Legs pale testaceous, femora at base and tarsi black. 
Length, .38 inch; (9.5™™.) 
Resembles lateralis in form, but more narrowed in front than behind. 
The elytra are evenly punctured, and the body along the median line 
moderately convex. It differs from all our species by the four distinct 
striz of punctures on each elytron. The outer two correspond in posi- 
tion with the eighth and ninth, and traces of a third, fourth, and fifth 
are visible at base.”—Horn. 
PHILHYDRUS REFLEXIPENNIS Zimmermann. 
Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc., 1869, p. 250. 
Great Egg Harbor, between tides. 
This and the next occur also inland. (Horn.) 
P. PERPLEXUS, Leconte. 
Proc. Philad. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1855, p. 371. 
Great Egg Harbor, between tides. 
PHYTOSUS LITTORALIS Horn. (p. 464.) 
Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc., 1871, p. 331. 
“Head brownish testaceous, moderately shining, sparsely clothed with 
yellowish hairs, front feebly concave; parts of mouth and antenne tes- 
taceous, the latter darker at tip. Thorax paler than the head, as broad 
as long, disk depressed, sides strongly rounded in front, behind the 
middle sinuate; base truncate, feebly emarginate at middle, and but 
slightly broader than half the width of thorax at middle; surface 
sparsely punctured and pubescent. Elytra pale testaceous, sparsely 
punctured and pubescent, short, sides strongly divergent behind ; body 
apterous. Abdomen elongate oval, broader behind the middle, piceous, 
shining, and very sparsely pubescent. Legs pale testaceous. Last 
segment of abdomen ¢ slightly prolonged at middle and sinuate on each 
side. Length, .08 inch, (2™".) 
The male resembles in its several characters P. Balticus Kraatz, of 
Europe, but the median prolongation of the last abdominal segment is 
broader. The penultimate segment is subcarinate along the median 
line behind. The mandibles in the present species are much more exsert 
than in the species from California. 
