604 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



19. E. CARDISCE. — Thorax rounded, convex, with an elongated 

 lateral fissure at base. 



Inhabits the United States. 



Body, blackish : head with short, dense, prostrate, cinereous 

 hair ; clypeus elevated above the front, edge a little reflected : 

 antennae nearly as long as the thorax, second joint shorter than 

 the third : thorax elevated, convex, with a slight violaceous tinge, 

 and short, prostrate, cinereous hair ; regularly arcuated each 

 side ; lateral edge hardly raised, placed low down and obsolete be- 

 fore the middle ; basal margin profoundly bisinuate, with an 

 elongated fissure near the lateral angles and a small prominence 

 in the middle ; angles short, abrupt : scutel cordate, having a 

 basal fissure : elytra, strias deeply impressed, third and fourth, 

 fifth and sixth confluent before the tip ; very short hair ; inter- 

 stitial lines convex, minutely rugulous, an obsolete paler spot in 

 the middle and another beyond the middle : beneath slightly 

 tinged with violaceous : tibiae and tarsi dark rufous. 



Length three-tenths of an inch. 



I have taken it in Pennsylvania, and Dr. Harris in Massa- 

 chusetts. It resembles convexus S., but the thorax is much more 

 narrowed behind, &c. 



[Belongs to Cardiophorus. — Lec] 



20. E. DISCALCEATUS. — Clypcus prominent, triangularly im- 

 pressed. 



Inhabits New Hampshire. 



Body hairy, rufous ; discs of the thorax and elytra a little 

 dusky; head densely punctured; clypeus prominent and obtuse 

 before, with a larger triangular indentation : thorax a little dusky 

 on the anterior margin ; posterior angles a little excurved, obtuse, 

 carinated line prominent, [170] acute, not parallel with the 

 edge : elytra with the punctures of the striae not longer than 

 broad : beneath much paler. 



Length nearly half an inch. 



The antennae are not longer than the thorax, and the terminal 

 joint is not remarkably contracted near its tip. The individual 

 was sent to me for examination by Dr. Harris. It resembles 

 cucuUatus S., but is destitute of tarsal lobes. 



[Belongs to Athom. — Lec] 



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