OF NATURAL HISTORY. (ill 



Var. /?. Thorax with a hitcral ahln-eviateil vitta on (ho anterior 

 margin : spot of the elytra slencK-r, and nearer the suture. 



Dr. Harris sent me a specimen from Mas.sachu.setts. 1 liavc 

 o})tained it on the common lliekdry (Carya) in Junr. 



[Belongs to Hi/Jnorcni. — Lkc] 



ENOPLir.M J.atr. 



1. E. LATICORNE. — Bhiek ; front and each side of tlietli..rax 

 fulvous. [165J 



Inhabits North Carolina. 



Body black, punctured : head fnlvi>us: mouth, eyes and an- 

 tenna? black ; the latter, with the three ultimate joints as bmad as 

 long, sulxpiadrate, narrowed at ba.se, the last one oval : thorax 

 lulvous, of nearly equal width ; a transverse rectilinear, indented 

 line on the anterior submargin, and indented points each side : 

 elytra with regular stricX of large punctures, much wider than 

 the interstitial lines. 



Length less than one-fourth of an inch. 



The only specimen I have seen was sent to me by Dr. Harris 

 for examination. 



[Belongs to Jihitca Lap. — LKf.] 



2. E. DAMICORNE F. (Tillus.) — Tn his description Fabricius 

 .-^ays, "Antennarum articulis duobus ultimis dilato-compressis, 

 acutis," but there are, of course, three dilated ultimate joints. 



PTLXrS L. 



P. iii:mer.\lis. — Reddish-brown; thorax quadrituberculatc ; 

 elytra with two bands widely interrupted by the suture. 



Inhabit.^ Pennsylvania ; >Lissachusetts, Harris. 



Head pale reddish-brown, with incumbent pale ferruginous 

 hair; vertex glabrous : thorax reddish-brown, with incumbf iit, 

 pale ferruginous hair; an acute, elevated tubercle on each side, 

 and two longitudinal obtuse ones on the disk, separated by a 

 groove : scutel with prostrate, cinereous hair : elytra dark red- 

 dish-brown, somewhat paler at base, with rigid elevated hairs ancl 

 regular striae of rather large, impressed punctures ; two remote 

 whitish bands interrupted at the suture. 



Very closely allied to 7*. /«?• F., but the body is les-;[166] 

 1835.] 41 



