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punctured, rather much contracted anteriorly ; a very slight, obtuse elevation 

 each side before the middle. Elytra with regular series of well impressed 

 dilated punctures, which become obsolete towards the tip; a small yellow spot 

 on the middle near the suture, a lateral one a little before the middle, and 

 another smaller one on the basal submargin ; a large black band behind the 

 middle, originating on the suture and extending to the lateral margin, then run- 

 ning forward to near the humerus, but is interrupted by the lateral yellow spot; 

 tip slightly tinged with yellow. Feet dark-brown ; tarsi dull yellowish. Venter 

 yellowish-red ; posterior margins of the segments honey-yellow. In the cabinet 

 of Prof. Haldeman. Inhabits Carolina. 



Tuogoderma, Latr. 



T. pallipes. Dark-brown: feet and elytra pale-testaceous. Length 1| lines; 

 breadth 1 line. 



Body oblong-oval, sericeous, polished. Head dark-brown, confertly and 

 minutely punctured, with a broad shallow indentation on a line between the 

 antennae. Eyes large, the color of the head. Antennae, two basal joints sub- 

 globular, equal ; honey-yellow; terminal joints fuscous. Labrum pale reddish- 

 brown. Mouth and palpi yellowish. Thorax dark-brown, polished ; transverse; 

 as wide as the elytra, and somewhat gibbous before the middle ; posterior angles 

 prominent, slightly rounded ; apex truncate, with anterior angles subacute, and 

 deflexed. Scutel brown, triangular. Elytra pale-testaceous, slightly varied 

 with fuscous; widest behind the middle ; posterior, inner and outer angles ob- 

 tusely rounded ; thinly and irregularly covered with short cinereous hairs. 

 Beneath reddish-brown, yellowish-sericeous. Feet pale-testaceous. Inhabits 

 Pennsylvania. 



Elodes, Latr. 



1. E. debills. Dark reddish-brown; antenna; and feet yellowish. Length 

 2| lines; breadth \\ lines. 



Head obsoletely punctured. Antennae reddish-yellow. Thorax polished, 

 widest behind, contracted anteriorly ; angles acute, posterior ones deflexed ; con- 

 vex ; somewhat gibbous anteriorly. Scutel reddish-brown, slightly convex, 

 polished. Elytra blackish-brown ; obsoletely striated ; punctures irregular and 

 obsolete. Femora and tarsi, pale yellow ; tibiae darker. In the cabinet of Prof. 

 Haldeman. Inhabits Carolina. 



2. E. fragilis. Dark chestnut ; thorax dull yellowish. Length 2 lines ; 

 breadth | lines. 



Body dark chestnut-brown, sericeous, with short, scattered, yellowish hairs. 

 Head impunctured, polished. Eyes small, black. Antenna; reddish-brown. 

 Thorax dull yellow; impunctured, shining. Scutel triangular. Elytra trans- 

 versely rugose, with a few dispersed, yellowish hairs. Feet and beneath, red- 

 dish-brown. In the cabinet of Prof. Haldeman. Inhabits Carolina. 



Eubria, Ziegl. Dej. 



E. thoracica. Black ; lateral thoracic margins, and tarsi, yellow. Length 

 3 A lines; breadth 1£ lines. 



Body deep black. Eyes large. Thorax with the lateral margins, and beneath, 



