Appalachian Pseudanophthalmus 
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Diagnosis. — Resembles P. calcareus in rounded elytral apexes and 
flat intervals, differing in wider head and pronotum, greatest width of 
elytra near middle, and aedeagal apex not as slender nor as greatly 
produced. 
Description. — Length 3. 7-4.3 mm(N = 2). Head rounded, only slightly 
longer than wide; labrum singly emarginate; last two segments of 
maxillary palp subequal; antenna two-thirds body length. Pronotum 
about as in P. scholasticus, 0.8 as long as wide, widths at apex and base 
subequal and about 0.75 greatest width, which occurs in apical fourth 
behind anterior marginal setae; sides subparallel in basal fifth, anterior 
angles prominent, hind angles sharp and about right, basal angles small 
and rounded. Elytra 1.65 times longer than wide, apexes rounded, 
prehumeral borders a little oblique, humeri slightly rounded, greatest 
width near middle; scutellar stria present; striae 1-3 finely and regularly 
impressed, intervals flat, outer striae obsolescent, apical groove elongate, 
bisinuate, oblique, running to 3rd stria via anterior crosier at level of 7th 
umbilicate puncture. Aedeagus 0.64 in holotype, compared with P. 
calcareus basal bulb more sharply deflexed and apex less slender and less 
produced; parameres shorter, with 3 apical setae. 
Type series. — Holotype male (American Museum of Natural History), 
Icebox Cave, 25 m above L & N railroad tracks on north side of 
Cumberland River in the town of Pineville, 1.0 km SE of the courthouse. 
Bell Co., Kentucky, 26 October 1963, S. B. Peck. One female paratype, 
same cave, 22 August 1979, T. C. Barr, Jr. and T. C. Barr, HI. 
Measurements (mm). — Holotype, total length 4.34, head 0.86 long X 
0.80 wide, pronotum 0.80 long X 0.98 wide, elytra 2.48 long X 1.50 wide, 
antenna 2.91, aedeagus 0.64. 
Discussion. — The type locality is a small but very well known cave; a 
small entrance leads into an antechamber from which a low, rocky 
crawlway extends 8 m to a muddy strike gallery 75 m long. The 
holotype was found at the edge of a temporary pool (S. B. Peck, pers. 
comm.) and the paratype under a rock among wet stalactities. 
Pseudanophthalmus praetermissus, new species 
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Etymology. — Ediim praetermissus, “overlooked.” 
Diagnosis. — A robust species closest to P. scholasticus, differing in 
more rounded elytral apexes, presence of a short scutellar stria, no crosier 
connecting apical groove to 3rd stria; size slightly larger; aedeagus similar 
with deflexed apex, but a little larger. 
Description. — Length 4.0-4. 3, mean 4.1 mm (N = 4). Form moder- 
ately robust and depressed; rufotestaceous, dorsum of head and prono- 
