OF NATUllAL HISTOllV. 05.') 



regular pnucturos m-ar the suture: suture and edge all around 

 and spot (m the humerus hhickish-grcen : autcnnoo and palpi fcr- 

 ruirinuus. 



liOngth over halt" an inch. 



This insect and the preceding may he only varit-ties ; never- 

 theless, having three specimens that are similar to each other, 1 

 may state that it differs fVi)m A. ij<milla nob., in the more ol)- 

 viously punctured thorax, in not having the striio of the elytra 

 so obviously in pairs, a>id in the color. 



IIEliKTEK Latr. 



II. PUNCTATUS. — Thorax transverse; elytra pinietured. aii'l 

 with obsolete series of punctures. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



Body black, densely punctured: antenna) and palpi piceous ; 

 terminal joint of the maxillary palpi rather large : thorax trans- 

 verse, convex : elytra irregularly punctured, and with regular 

 series of punctures: feet piceous. 



Length less than one-fourth of an inch. 



EURYCIIOKA Thunb. 



E. IN.IIQUALIS. — Body iiiei(ual, with elevated points and lines, 

 and indentations and punctures. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



Body black, oblong-oval; head minutely rugose, with an obtuse 

 indentation each side: tliorax inequal, with [183] elevated obtuse 

 lines and indentations, and numerous small, elevated dots; pos- 

 terior angles acute : elytra with many small elevated dots, and 

 deeply impressed, distant ])unetures; several elevated, obtuse, 

 abbreviated lines, of which the largest one is near the middle 

 and extends to the posterior declivity; on this declivity arc three 

 large, elevated tubercles; an abbreviated line extends from the 

 humerus, and a very short basal one is nearest the suture : 

 beneath, with numerous, small, elevated dots. 



Length thrce-tifths of an inch. 



This occurred in abundance in an elevated situation, under old 

 logs. 



[Evidently a species of Nowderma. — Lec] 

 1835.] 



