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the size of the third : mandibles ? rufous ; palpi, terminal joint 

 rather oval than securiform ; thorax broader than long, as wide 

 as the base of the elytra, reddish-fulvous, with a black disk ex- 

 tending to the base, disk a little convex, without any carinate 

 line, each side a little concave, lateral edge nearly rectilinear, 

 the posterior angles not excurved, and not very acute at tip, an- 

 terior edge regularly arcuated: elytra black, with elevated, loii- 

 gitudinal lines, and in the intervening spaces are numerous trans- 

 verse, elevated lines, and a small longitudinal one ; wings black, 

 tinged with rufous on the costal base. [15^] 



The insect was lost before the measure of its length was taken. 



[Belongs to Eros Newman, Anarhi/nchus Gruer. — Lec] 



2. L. OBLIQUUS. — Black; margin of the thorax and basal mar- 

 gin of the elytra fulvous. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



Body rather slender, black ; antennoe compressed, serrate ; 

 palpi white, terminal joint black; thorax with a wide lateral ful- 

 vous margin and an elevated fulvous line in the middle, posterior 

 angles rather prominent and acute ; elytra with elevated longitu- 

 dinal lines and transverse ones in the intervening spaces, forming 

 large subquadrate punctures ; a dilated fulvous margin at base, 

 occupying the surface to the sutural stria, before the middle be- 

 coming narrower until it terminates on the costal edge beyond 

 the middle ; coxae white. 



Length seven-twentieths of an inch. 



Allied to dlmidvitas Fabr., but the antenna? are not flabcllate, 



3. L. CANALICULATUS. — Black ; thorax with a yellowish mar- 

 gin and an impressed line on the basal margin. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Mandibles pale ; antennas serrate, third joint rather shorter 

 than the fourth ; thorax yellowish rufous, a large, black, sub- 

 quadrate spot on the disk, anterior edge very prominently arcu- 

 ated ; basal margin with an abbreviated impressed longitudin;vl 

 groove ; elytra with elevated longitudinal lines and intermediate 

 transverse ones. 



Length one-fourth of an inch. 



[Also an Eros. — Lec] 



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