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Middle and Eastern States, rare. Germar Bays that this species differs From others by 

 its lo nd more ;ly serrate antennae. It is true thai the antennae i 



serrate, but I find them of the same form in nearly all the spi i i< s of the pr< sent division 

 ot the genus; while in E. linteus, the antenna? are still more strongly Berrate. In ro) spe- 

 cimens, which are females, the antennae are but little longer than the thorax; the specimen 

 described by Germar is said to have antennae had' as long as the body, and i- certainly a 

 male. Dr.Harria thinks that this i- E. stigma Herbst; a species placed in Limoniua l>\ 

 Dejean, and which lor the present it is saf< i I > i onsider as indeterminate, or unknown. 



32. E. areolatns, rnfo-tesi . i it pul transverso, punctolato, an 



rotundatim angustato, capite seutcllo elytrisque nigi ne late 



Mavis, striis profumle punctatis. interstitiis parcc p> . articalo 



:'>'" angustb, 4'° longitudine aequali. Long. I s — •'-'-• 



Say. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. '■). 167. 



Middle and Southern States, rare. The onlj differences between this and the preceding 

 species are those id colour. I am very much disposed to regard them as varieties; if this 

 vii w should finally prevail, the name areolatus lias of course prcc< d< nee 



Erichson has committed a very singular error in quoting Say's species under tin g< nue 

 Cardiophorus, (Germ. Zeitschr. 2, 321.) The species there described has no resemblance 

 whatever to the present one, and is in reality Elater c u r i a t u s Say, (Trans. \m. Phil. 

 Soc. 6, 173.) 



I. I", luteolus, rofo-ti . longius flavo-pubescens, tl nbtransverso, antroranm rotun 



flatim angustato, parcc punctulato, elytris Bnbcnneatis, Baturatioribos, Btriia profunda pnnotatn, in- 

 terstitiis parcc punctulatis, antennis rtrtieuli- _' et :; snbsequalibus maioBCuUfl. Long. 'lo. 



One specimen, North Carolina, Dr. Zimmermann. Tin- is the smallest Bpecies ol tie 

 genus known to me: in form and structure it altogether resembles E. obliquus, except 

 that the thorax is more regularly narrowed and rounded anteriorly, and that the -< i"inl 

 joint ol" the antennae is verj little shorter than the third: the specimen is a male, and haa 



atiti una' fully half as long as the body. 



84. E.humerali , ater nitidoB, snbtiliter nigro-pal titudinel 



antroranm ai ircina poi lytria macula hnmerali qua 



llelis, striis pnnct . artionlo 



: _ squi maiore. 1. 

 Melsheimer, Proc. Acad. ' - 



Pennsylvania. I have only seen the type in Dr. Melshcimer's collection. The third 

 joint of the antennae, although dilated, i- hardly one-half the -!/•• of the fourth. Germ 

 Ampedus xan thorn us Zeit chr. 5, l( ins t" agree nearly with tin-, hut tin 



(•25 une.) is so different, tint I cannot i 



■".".. E. proter latitndine ' m- 



trorsnm ,,:,, i 



angn piplcnris sanguim punctatis, ponctali . 



ids piccis, articalo paulo mi Long. *4 



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