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It seems necessary to give the above phase a distinctive name, on account 

 of colour, genital characters and other minor differences. It frequents the 

 blossoms of the wild morning glory {Convolvulus) ; it is rather abundant. In 

 Eschatocrepis constrictns Lee. the legs are pale and, as a whole, the insect is 

 much less pigmented than nigripes. 



Casey in his Coleopterological Notices, VI, p. 460, Annals N. Y. Acad. 

 Sci., Mil, July, 1895, created the genus Eudasytes for three species which he^ 

 deemed advisable to separate from Trichochrous, the essential difference being 

 the rather wide, flat and horizontal epipleura, and the lateral margins of the 

 elytra narrowly reflexed. The apical angles of the pronotum are usually stronger 

 and more prominent anteriorly than in any species of Trichochrous, except a 

 few species like suturalis, for instance. I see no reason why Eudasytes should 

 not be recognized as a valid genus. At the present time I will describe three 

 new species as follows: 



Eudasytes reynoldsi, new species. 



Form broad, oblong, about twice as long as wide. Colour black; antennae 

 piceous, more or less rufo-piceous in basal half; legs rufous to rufo-testaceous; 

 surface rather shining. Pubescence not long, abundant but not hiding the 

 body surface, grayish to subluteo-cinereous in colour and recumbent; pronotal 

 margin fimbriate, fimbriae erect and of moderate length, not conspicuous; those 

 of the elytral margin similar and obliquely directed; head, pronotum and elytra 

 with stiff, semi-recumbent, sparsely placed and not long nor conspicuous 

 blackish setae. Head rather small, about two-thirds as wide as the pronotal 

 apex, sparsely to almost densely punctate, punctures moderate in size; surface 

 broadly impressed just between the antennae, impression more definitely but 

 briefly longitudinally marked laterally. Antennae stout, joints five to eleven 

 subequal in width, subserrate anteriorly. Pronotum widest at base which is 

 about a third wider than the apex; length a little less than the width of apex; 

 sides almost straight and convergent toward apex, margin subexplanate with the 

 adjacent discal surface almost grooved; apex broadly and deeply emarginate 

 betw^een the anteriorly prominent, rather wide, broadly and evenly rounded 

 apical angles. At the angles the margin is somewhat reflexed and the discal 

 surface distinctly grooved within; base rather broadly arcuate at middle, oblique 

 laterally to become sinuate within the large, prominent and more or less everted 

 angles which are subobtuse at tip; margins of the angles rather reflexed; surface 

 quite deeply impressed within; disk quite strongly convex centrally and 

 anteriorly, slightly impressed within the angles and along the margins, punctures 

 moderate, separated by a distance equal to three or five times their diameter, 

 denser laterally, surface almost separate within the angles. Elytra about a 

 half longer than wide, moderately convex, but somewhat flattened on the disk; 

 humeri prominent, dentiform, everted and obtuse, umbone prominent and 

 rounded; margin somewhat explanate, finely serrulate, arcuately reflexed with 

 the surface rather broadly channelled within, especially at the humeri, broadly 

 rounded at apex, sutural angles rounded; punctuation rather sparse, much 

 coarser toward the base than at apex. Abdomen densely punctate. 



Male — More broadly oblong; pronotum broader and larger, basal angles 

 more strongly developed Humeri broadly dentiform. 



