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the second, whicli is globular; teriniiml joint obtuse at tip : tho- 

 rax with small punctures, and like the head, with pmstratt' hair ; 

 lateral edge slightly arcuated to each extremity ; at base an im- 

 pressed line in the middle, and an oblique one each side ; jmsterior 

 angles very short, obtusely rounded : elytra with [172] short 

 hairs, dull rufous, with punctured stria3, of which the third ami 

 fourth are couflueiit before the tip: leet and venter on the nuir- 

 gin rufous. 



Length seven-twentieths of an inch. 



The posterior thoracic angles are unusually sliort and rounded. 



[Belongs to Lununius. — JiEC.J 



20. F. VERNALI.S Ilontz. — Also inhabits Indiana. T obtained 

 several specimens in the autumn, on the root of an overturned 

 tree. 



[Belongs to Corymhites. — Lec] 



27. E. iiiERociLYPnicus Harris, Catal. — Bronzed-black ; ely- 

 tra pale rufous, with two undulated black bands. 



Inhabits Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Harris. l\nm- 

 sylvania. 



Body short, robust : head with yellow or prostrate hair : cly- 

 peus angulatcd before and but little elevated : antennae rufous ; 

 second joint half as long as the third; last joint not larger tlian 

 the preceding one : thorax convex, covered with prostrate, yellow 

 hair, lateral edge regularly but not prominently arcuated ; pos- 

 terior angles excurved, subacute, slightly carinated, with a small 

 sinus at their inner origin : elytra pale yellowish rufous, striated; 

 stria) with very distinct punctures, third and fourth confluent be- 

 fore the tip; interstitial spaces punctured; a blackish undulated 

 band from the humerus, is connected by a subsutural blackish 

 vitta, with another undulated band behind the middle, which is 

 decurrent along the suture nearly to the tip; beneath tinged with 

 rufous ; feet rufous. 



Length less than half an inch. 



In some specimens the posterior band is also decurrent along 

 the exterior margin nearly to the tip. 

 [Also a f\iri/nifn'frs. — Lec] 



1836.] 



