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the anterior margin advanced upon the occiput, frequently angulate ; the pos- 

 terior extremity produced into an acute triangle ; the lateral carinse very 

 acute, extending almost to the anterior margin. Elytra fulvous ocellate, with 

 numerous grayish spots (but not fasciate). Wings yellow at the base, pel- 

 lucid at the apex, a median, arcuate, fuscous fascia. Posterior femora very 

 broad, lamelliform-cristate beneath ; trifasciate, with the interior fiice of the 

 posterior femora and the tibise sanguineous. 



Length, 1.05 to 1.6 inches. 



Mexico (Saussure). 



I have but little doubt that this is a small-sized variety of CE. coraf- 

 lipes, Hald., but I have given the description in full, as I may be mistaken 

 in this opinion. 



<E. sumichrasti, Sauss., Rev. et Mag. Zool., XIII, 1861, 324. 



Rather robust ; fuscous or fusco-ferruginous, sprinkled with gray ; an- 

 tennae annulate. Vertex narrow; foveola elongate, narrowed anteriorly; mar- 

 gins elevated, continuous with the margins of the frontal costa ; the frontal 

 costa elevated, but obsolete or none near the mouth. Eyes prominent. Pro- 

 notum very broad, coarctate at the front, arcuate, but not constricted ; the 

 small carina not elevated ; the posterior transverse sulcus situated a little in 

 front of the middle ; the posterior part very broad, short, and obtuse-angled 

 at the apex ; the (lower) posterior angles of the sides produced in the form 

 of a tooth, or sub-spiniforni. The elytra longer than the abdomen, sprinkled 

 with fuscous dots, but not fasciate ; apex sub-hyaline. Wings at the base 

 scarlet; the rest infuscate, or spread over with fuscous clouds, reticulate, with 

 fuscous on the scalariform nervules. Posterior femora within testaceous, tri- 

 fasciate with black ; posterior tibise before the middle testaceous, bifasciate 

 with black, then red. 



Length, 1.12 inches. 



Mexico calida (Saussure). 



«E. mesicasia, Sauss , Rev. et Mag. Zool., XIII, 1861, 397. 



Medium size, dull-gray. Eyes large, but not prominent. Vertex 

 broad ; foveola broader than long, truncate in front, and with three contiguous 

 furrows (fbssulai). Pronotum much compressed, flattened, terrose ; the dor- 

 sum elongate-tuberculate, tricarinate ; narrowed in front, Init not constricted ; 



