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Psyche 
[March 
A NEW NEBRIA FROM MOUNT RAINIER 
By P. J. Darlington, Jr. 
An examination of the types of Nebria kincaidi Schwarz 
and N. Columbiana Casey, which the authorities of the 
United States National Museum kindly permitted me to 
make recently, proves that the two species are absolutely 
identical. Schwarz’s name has priority. This leaves the 
insect which has sometimes gone in collections as Nebria 
columbiana Casey without a name, so I propose that it 
be called 
Nebria vandykei sp. nov. 
Moderately stout, legs and antennae slender. Color nearly 
uniform piceous or reddish piceous, but with the antennae 
and parts of the under surface more or less rufescent; 
the head with two poorly defined reddish spots between 
the eyes; the elytra with weak purplish reflections. Head 
about five-sevenths as wide as the prothorax, eyes only 
slightly more prominent than the sides of the head behind 
them, antennae more than one-half as long as the entire 
body. Prothorax about five-eighths as long as broad, 
strongly cordate, with the sides arcuate in anterior two- 
thirds and reflexed before the acute posterior angles; pro- 
thoracic base and apex moderately emarginate, base about 
five-eighths as wide as widest part ; pronotum only slightly 
convex, median longitudinal line narrow and w T ell im- 
pressed, basal and apical transverse impressions vaiiable 
but usually well impressed, lateral margins rather nar- 
rowly reflexed. Elytra about three and two-thirds times 
as long as the prothorax and one-third to two-fifths wider, 
elliptical, with the widest point behind the middle ; humeri 
narrow, completely rounded into the sides as in Nebria 
ovipennis; striae deep, very finely and rather sparsely punc- 
tured ; intervals posteriorly with a few inconspicuous inter- 
