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A. Tarsi el ungues simplices. Sp. I — II. 



1. C. c r y t hr o pus , elongatus, fusco-niger, cinen n U . 

 bcscento, latitudine longiore, convexo, antrorsum angustal 



rotundatis Bubtilissime punctulato, elytris striia Bubtil 

 pcdibus antennarumquc basi rulis. L'>n_'. ■:>" — I. 



Variat, antennis totis rufis. 



Erichs Germ. Zeitschr. 2, 293. 



' '. imi >tua Melsheimer, 1'. oc. Acad. '■ 



. /. - iy, Journ. Acad. Nat. - 



Middle and Southern States, not common. Distinguished from the ncxl by the pu 

 ccucc of t lie thorax being equal over its \\ hole Burface, and l>\ the more distinct 6nc punc- 

 tures with which it is covered ; the posterior angles are more divergent in some sp 

 ni i- th in in others. The elytra, as in th i n ixt, are aomewhal pointed behind, with the 

 interstices almost imperceptibly punctured. In the females the thorax i- more parallel on 

 the side-, and m >re suddenly rounded anteriorly. 



2. C. sat urn in as, el ;er, ciner 

 tenuissimo cinereo-pubescente, antrorsum an latitudine Fei 

 fertUsim 



punctatis, interstitiis paulo irum basi pedibusque rufis. I. 



( ) i -;. :iraen, South Carolina, Mr. Zimmerman. Except t!i 

 • ni-. t;,i- -,, ■ -i >s has all : ling. Th • pu i if the thorax 



so fine and close, th tl is dull and bluish on that portion of th 



p illi le ]' 

 tumido, antrorsum angustato, lateribas rotundatia postice infl 

 bua elongatis, exaratis, elytris ochreo bi- vel quadri-m 

 interatitiia convex:- I nse punctulatifl. Long. p S 

 9 iy, Trans. \.m. Phil. Soc 



Middle State-, on the sea shore. The anterior spots of the elytra are about the middle, 



the p tsterior about one-fourth from the apex : the latt< r form an angulated fast S ■- 



times the anterior spots are wanting, and som tim rior variotii probablj 



cur with immaculate elytra. 



1. C. Dej can i i , plumbeo 

 convexo, dense p 



punctulati 

 que teataccia. Long. •' 



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One specimen, G irgia. Brichson, probably misled b) Dej< in's collection, has con- 

 founded tin- with Elater con vexus Say, Journ. lead. Nat. S ,169 

 species which, l>y description, having rufous anten nearly allied to I 



pus. This species differs from the preceding by the thorax bein led 



<>n thi Bides, and more densel) pubescent 



