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mate, irroj^ularly disposeil, cnnfluoiit, profound, dilated punctures : 

 eyes brown: antcnntE black, dark testaceous at 'base : labruni 

 piccous, impunctured : edge of the tliorax and elytra more ex- 

 clusively bluish or violaceous ; punctures of the elytra larger 

 than the thoracic ones ; humeral prominence impunctured : pec- 

 tus with smaller punctures : postpcctus with a few minute punc- 

 tures furnishing minute hairs, and with [448] the venter, which 

 is impunctured, bluish-violaceous : feet dark violaceous. 

 Length one-fourth of an iiK-h. 



12. C. DENTicOLLis. — Lateral thoracic edge three-toothed ; 

 elytra serrate. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body black, slightly bronzed, covered with dense, robust, 

 cinereous hairs : antennae dull rufous at base : thorax with three 

 equal, cciuidistaut teeth on the lateral edge : elytra, lateral edge 

 minutely dentated ; tip simple : anterior tibia and posterior 

 thighs one-toothed. 



Length nearl}' one-fifth of an inch. 



[Belongs to Mi/o<hroHs Chcvr., of which I have seen no descrip- 

 tion. — Lec] 



13. C. INTERRUPTA. — Rufous ; thorax with two spots; elytra, 

 suture, exterior edge, and abbreviated vitta, black. 



Inhabits Arkansa. 



Body rufous, punctured : antennae black ; five basal joints palo 

 rufous : thorax with a large black spot on each side : scutel picc- 

 ous : elytra rather paler, with regular punctured stria), which are 

 nearly obsolete at tip ) a black sutural line, exterior edge, and 

 oblique vitta, which originates upon the humerus, is interrupted 

 at the middle, and terminates before the tip : beneath blackish : 

 feet pale rufous. 



Length one-fourth of an inch. 



Found near the Rocky Mountains. 



[Belongs to Mtarhroma. — Lec] [449] 



EUMOLPUS Fabr. Latr. 



E. CRYPTlcus. — Entirely covered with short, cincereous hair; 

 elytra very acute at tip. 



Inhabits Missouri. 

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