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Femora all in great part black except the posterior pair; 

 body black, with the following parts white: tegulae, tro- 

 chanters, femora at apex in front, anterior tibiae and tarsi, 

 knees of the middle and posterior tibije, a spot on the mid- 

 dle of basal plates, and an interrupted band on fourth 

 abdominal segment; legs, with coxae black, all other parts 

 not named, rufous; antennae with third, fourth, and fifth 

 segments subequal; ocellar basin a broad shallow depres- 

 sion extending from above anterior ocellus to supraclypeal 

 area and not interrupted at middle; median fovea a rounded 

 pit in lower part of ocellar basin; interocellar furrow a 

 fine furrow connecting ocellar basin and ocellar furrow; 

 saw-guides with upper and lower margins straight, 

 obliquely truncate, and roundly pointed at apex. Length 

 7-9 mm gillettii 



*E. apertus Norton. Connecticut (E. N.) ; Putnam, 12 July 

 1905 (H. L. V.) ; Thompson (A. P. Morse). 



E. inornatus Say. Connecticut (E. N.) ; Putnam, 12 July, 

 1905, Hartford, 20 May, 1904 (H. L. V.) ; New Haven, 19 July, 

 1905 (B. H. W.) ; Wallingford, 7 June, 1910 (W. E. B.). 



*E. mellipes Norton. Howard, Insect Book, PI. xiv, Fig. 3. 

 Connecticut (E. N.) ; New Haven, 24 May, 1905 (W. E. B.), 

 4 July, 1905 (H. L.V.). 



E. cinctipes Norton. Howard, Insect Book, PI. xiv, Fig. 8. 

 Larva feeds upon rose. Connecticut (E. N.). 



E. gillettii MacGillivray. Larva feeds on strawberry. 



Parataxonus MacGillivray. 



P. multicolor (Norton). Taxonus multicolor Norton. 



Black, with the following parts yellowish white: clypeus, 

 labrum, a spot in front and between the bases of antennae, posterior 

 and inner orbits, tegulse, collar, an oblique band or spot on 

 pleurae, and legs ; abdomen with a row of elongate, ovate, reddish 

 yellow spots on each side of meson, in some individuals becoming 

 so prominent as to cover the entire abdomen except a trapezoidal 

 or triangular black spot on the middle of each segment ; median 

 fovpa and ocellar basin continuous. Length 7-8 mm. Larva 

 feeds on white and yellow birch, 



Hamden, 14 June, 191 1 (B. H. W.) ; New Haven, 26 May, 

 1911 (A. B. C). 



