170 CHARLES W. LENG. 



€. lepifla Dej., 1831, Spec, v, p. 255; Lee. Ann. Lye., iv, 181, pi. 13, fig. 8; 

 Trans. Am. Phil., xi, p. 51 ; Schaupp, I. c, p. 103, pi. 3, fig. 90. 

 Length 9-12 mm.=.36-.48 inch. 



Habitat. — Rockaway Beach and Long Branch, N. Y. (Harris); 

 Trenton, N. J. (Leconte); Jamesburg, N. J. (Davis); Avalon, N. 

 J., Pierpont, N. J. (Kemp) ); Shawnee and Riley Co., Kan. (Pope- 

 noe) ; Neb. (Bruner) ; Iowa City, la. (Wickham) ; N. Mex., Topeka, 

 Kan. ; Lawrence, Kan. ; Manhattan, Kan. (Knaus), Aweme, Mani- 

 toba (Criddle). This species is found on very white sand, such as is 

 seen forming sand hills near the ocean, but inland as well as by the 

 seashore. It is also attracted by electric lights. 



Head and thorax green-bronze, hairy; elytra white, glabrous, 

 dispersedly punctured with a few green or brown bronzed dark 

 lines; suture pale; beneath green-bronze, densely clothed with 

 white hair, which is much thinner or absent at the middle of the 

 abdomen; anus testaceous; legs, antennae and palpi pale, the latter 

 darker at tip; labrum unidentate ; elytra male scarcely sinuate, 

 obliquely narrowed at apex, female sinuate, anteapical angle obtuse, 

 not rounded, apex nearly truncate, not serrulate. 



ToGATA group. 



Thorax rounded on the sides ; palpi pale ; middle tooth of mandibles smaller than 

 the others; apex of elytra acuminate %, separately rounded 9 with 

 suture retracted ; densely hairy beneath even to the head ; anus tes- 

 taceous togata. 



€. tosata La Ferte, Rev. Zool., 1841, p. 40; Lee. Trans. Am. Phil., xi, p. 58 ; 

 Schaupp, I. c, p. 104, pi. 4, fig. 100. 

 Length 10-12.5 mm.= .40-.50 inch. 



Habitat. — Neb., Kan., Tex., on saline flats, June to August. 



Brown cupreous, with slight green tinge, beneath green, densely 

 pubescent at the sides; elytral markings consist of white margin 

 very broad, three lobed, so as to leave only a sutural broad green- 

 ish cupreous space ; head cupreous, sparsely hairy above and in 

 front; labrum one-toothed; thorax subquadrate, impressions shal- 

 low, sparsely hairy above ; elytra flat, ovate in $ , apex separately 

 rounded, subparallel i , apex slightly acuminate, coarsely punctured 

 and with a row of cupreous punctures near the suture often indis- 

 tinct. Beneath, the sides of the head, flanks of thorax, sides of 

 abdomen, palpi, legs and pleune are densely clothed with decum- 

 bent white hair ; palpi, trochanters and anus pale. 



