812 ZOOLOGY INSECTS. 



DASYTES EDFICOLLIS. 

 PLATE XLT, FIG. 5. 



Body testaceous, shining, and clothed Avith grayish pubescence ; head 

 and thorax reddish-yellow, finely punctured, clothed with cinereous pubes- 

 cence, the latter rounded and wider than long ; elytra dark-bronzed, with 

 the sides and apex reddish-yellow, finely punctured and clothed with cine- 

 reous pubescence ; abdomen dark -bronzed ; prothorax and legs reddish- 

 yellow ; antenna? reddish-yellow, with the last five joints dark piceous. 

 Length, 0.9 inch = 2- millimeters. Nevada. This species is readily known 

 from all others by its rufous head and thorax. 



EPIGAUTA WHEELEKI. 



PLATE LXI, FIG. 4. 



Body black, covered with grayish pubescence ; thorax rusty-red. Head 

 sparsely punctured and covered with coarse, grayish pubescence ; medial 

 line black, shining ; thorax rounded, as broad as long, covered with a thick, 

 felt-like, reddish-brown pubescence, edged with lighter-colored, bristle-like 

 hairs ; elytra densely clothed with short cinereous pubescence ; body be- 

 neath black, with coarse, gray pubescence ; femora and tibia*, with a black 

 spot at the end ; tarsi and anteimse black. Length, 0.35-0.40 inch zz 9- 

 1 1.5 millimeters. Arizona. I dedicate this beautiful species with great pleas- 

 ure to Lieut, George M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., who, by 

 the large collections made under his directions, has rendered important 

 services to natural science. 



LYTTA LUGUBRIS. 

 PLATE LXI, FIG. 2. 



Uniformly black, moderately shining. Head quadi'ate, scabrous, with 

 large punctures, and a small, frontal, yellow spot; thorax hexagonal, and 

 sculptured like the head ; elytra evenly scabrous ; body beneath more 

 shining and uniformly punctured ; legs and antenna; dark piceous. Length, 

 0.45-0.80 inch 11.5 20 millimeters. Owens Valley, California. Resembles 

 L.rlii/ilii and iiitwiix, but may lie known at once by the angnlated form and 

 coarser sculpture of the head and thorax. 



