222 [March, 1845. 



slightly bisinuate ; punctured, disk finely and confertly, lateral margins ru- 

 gosely ; scutel cordate, with an oblong deep impression at base; elytra punc- 

 tate-striate, with the stria; faintly impressed and the punctures transverse, in- 

 terstices flattish, minutely and distantly punctured : beneath and feet reddish- 

 testaceous ; penultimate tarsal joint lobed beneath. 



Cyphonidse, Steph. 

 Ntcteus, Latr. 



N.1 thoracicus. Reddish-brown; thorax and feet testaceous. If 1. long; 

 § 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Lampyris thoracicus, Melsh. Catal. 



Head rufo-piceous, minutely punctulate; eyes black; labrum and mouth 

 testaceous; antennae brownish, with three basal joints testaceous, third joint 

 very small, as small again as the second, fourth joint as long as the fifth and. 

 and sixth united, terminal joint; thorax semi-orbiculate, clypeate, slightly nar- 

 rower at base than the elytra, feebly convex in the middle, with the margins 

 depressed; pale testaceous, shining, impunctured, very finely reticulate ; disk 

 obsoletely brownish, faintly indented : scutel triangular, testaceous : elytra red- 

 dish-brown, finely and shortly hirsute, very finely punctured and reticulate: 

 beneath reddish-brown : feet testaceous; tibise. finely setous, armed with two 

 spines at tip ; tarsi simple, fourth joint slightly lobate. 



Eubkia, Ziegl. 



E.1 nervosa. Dusky reddish-brown ; thorax black'; elytra with two angulated 

 raised lines, tarsi pale ferruginous. 1^ 1. long; 1 1. wide. Pennsylvania. 



Short subovate, dull dusky reddish-brown, obsoletely punctured and rugulose, 

 ashy and very finely pubescent : head small, retracted ; eyes deep black ; an- 

 tennae more than half the length of the body, mostly black, opake, serrate from 

 the third joint ; second joint very small, subglobular and with the basal joint 

 glabrous ; palpi small ; labrum deflexed : thorax short, more than three times 

 wider than long, much wider at base than at apex, the latter moderately retuse, 

 the former almost truncate; sides rounded ; angles rather acute, with the an- 

 terior ones somewhat deflexed ; lateral edges finely margined ; surface black, 

 sometimes dusky reddish-brown, depressed each side of the middle at base ; disk 

 in front of the scutel gibbose : , scutellum moderate, triangular, color of the 

 elytra seldom black : elytra as wide at base as the base of the thorax, rather 

 widest behind the middle, moderately convex, dull reddish-brown ; humeral 

 tubercles small, distinct; each elytrum with two longitudinal, slightly raised 

 lines, paler than the general color, and connected together by two transverse 

 oblique ones : beneath and femora dull brown ; tibiae dark reddish-brown, mu- 

 tic at tip : tarsi short, slender, testaceous or pale rust color, with the joints 

 feebly lobed. Sometimes the elytra are obscurely clouded with black. The 

 female is larger than the male, or the above stated size, and has the antennae 

 less serrated. 



