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GEO. H. HORN, M. D. 
^[ale . — Elytra prolonged in a narrow eauda, which is channeled beneath and 
curved slightly downward at tip; aiiterior femora with a small tooth near the 
knee, the tibia narrowed at base; middle and posterior femora simple; posterior 
tibise slightly arcuate, narrow at basal half, rather abruptly dilated in apical 
half, in which part the surface is quite asperate. 
This species belongs in the series near E. lucoe Lee., but the males 
may be easily known by the sexual characters in the front and hind 
tibite of Wickhami, which do not exist in the other. The anterior 
angles are quite acute forward or even faintly everted in luc(e, and 
in the male the elytra are vaguely sulcate, with coai’se obsolete punc- 
tures. The legs are relatively longer than in any other Eleodes 
known to me. 
Collected by Mr. H. F, Wickham near Tucson, Ariz., and named 
as an evidence of my appreciation of his labors in that region. 
E. longipilosa n. sp. — Piceous-black, moderately shining, surface sparsely 
clothed with long, black, flying hairs; head coarsely not closely punctate, 
smoother at middle; thorax about a fourth wider than long, sides arcuate in 
front, obliquely narrowed posteriorly, disc moderately convex, coarsely sparsely 
irregularly punctate, apex slightly emargiuate, anterior angles subacute, but not 
everted; elytra elongate oval, more attenuate posteriorly, disc feebly convex, 
very vaguely sulcate, surface irregularly sparsely muricate, the two grooves 
nearest the suture coarsely punctate ; propleurse wrinkled and sparsely muricate ; 
abdomen with first three segments very coarsely punctate and rugose, the last 
two segments much smoother. Length 19 mm. ; with cauda, 21.5 mm. ; .76 — .86 
inch. PI. 1, fig. 13. 
Male . — Elytra prolonged at tip in a cauda, the apices slightly separated, beneath 
grooved. 
This species is related to candifera, and like it has the femoi-a not 
toothed in either sex. The general form is the same as in that spe- 
cies, but the elytra are much less evidently striate. It is, however, 
especially remarkable in the rather long flying hairs of the surface, 
which extend also on the legs even to the humeral joint of the tarsus. 
Collected in Humboldt Valley, Nev., by IVIr. Krause, and kindly 
given me by Mr. L. E. Ricksecker. 
EPICAIITA Redt. 
E. straba n. sp. — Black, subopaque, sparsely clothed with short brownish 
and iiiconspicous pubescence. Antennse black, setaceous; head broadly oval, 
densely punctate, occiput rather deeply impressed ; eyes obliquely oval, prolonged 
in an acute angle toward the occiput, limited behind by a smooth depressed 
space; thorax quadrate, narrowed near the apex, closely punctate, a median lon- 
gitudinal impression, and another less distinct on each side arcuate; elytra 
closely punctate scabrous, subopaque; body beneath black, shining, puuctulate; 
legs black. Length 7 — 8 mm.; .28 — .32 inch. PI. 1, fig. 10. 
