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rather short, projectiug hut little beyond the lobes of the third joint; claws 
slender, with a very large, broadly triangular appeudiculum at its base. Long. 
2.7 — 3.3 mni. ; .21 — .13 inch. 
Hab. — Pennsylvania. 
One male and two female specimens. Coll. Dr. Horn and mine. 
I captured my specimen ( S ) some years ago on oak, and has served 
as the type of the above description. One of Dr. Horn’s specimens 
agrees in all particulars (except sexual differences) with mine, while 
the other has the denuded fascia of less extent and the interspaces 
not denuded near the base. 
I have made careful comparison with well authenticated specimens 
of this species from Europe, and can discover no difference, except 
that a small denuded spot each side of the thorax is wanting in our 
specimens, but as this also occurs in one of my European specimens, 
it is probably of but subordinate value. 
E. ppisitus Say. Plate vii, figs 35c, 35d. — Elongate, ferruginous, 
mottled with pale yellowish and fawn-colored pubescence. Beak punctured. 
Prothorax rather finely and not densely punctured. Elytral strife with large, 
closely pLaced punctures; a large scutellar spot and another somewhat rhomboidal 
space behind the middle connected along the suture, of darker color. A trans- 
verse fascia of grayish pubescence immediately behind the posterior dark space; 
underside punctured ; the claws are slender and armed beneath with a large 
rectangular tooth at the base. Long. 2 — 3.3 mm. ; .08 — .13 inch. 
Hab. — Atlantic States; Michigan, Georgia, Kansas, New iMexico, 
Oregon, California. 
A very variable species. The dark elytral spaces are almost ob- 
solete in some specimens. 
Mr. Thos. Casey very kindly has sent me a typical specimen of 
his E. callforuicus. It is entirely pitchy-black, resembling in this 
respect rather bipunetatus ; legs a trifle paler. The beak is less 
punctured, shining, and the second joint of the funicle is longer than 
the third. In all other respects it agrees with ephippiatus, from 
which it does not appear specifically distinct, but forms a marked 
variety. 
E. n. sp. Plate vii, fig. 35d. — Elongate elliptic, femigiuous. 
not very densely clothed with whitish, squamiform pubescence. Beak rather 
slender and moderately long, punctured and somewhat shining; substriate 
and rather densely scaly from base to about the middle. Antennse slender; 
first joint of funicle long and slender, second a little longer than the third, 
outer joints hut little wider. Eyes as usual. Head punctured, occiput sparsely 
pubescent, densely squamous between the eyes. Prothorax wider than long, 
broadly rounded on the sides and very little wider at ba.se than at the apex. 
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TKANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XVIII. 
.SEPTEMBER, 1891. 
