392 ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, 



Orso. inconstans. Caput, prothorax, elytra et abdomen nigra : 

 OS, antennas et pedes fulva, plus minusve sordida. Variat. 

 Caput nigrum: os fulvum: prothorax, elytra et abdomen 

 sordide testacea. (Corp. long. "25 unc. ; lat. '1 unc.) 



The three preceding species were taken by Messrs. Double- 

 day and Foster, at Trenton Falls, in North America. 



Natural Order. — Lepturites, Newvnan. 



Genus. — Encyclops, Newman. 



Caput fere quadratum, prothorace paullo latius ; oculi rotundati 

 haud ad antennas emarginati ; antennae ante oeulos insertae, 

 tenues, corpora vix breviores, 11-articulatae, articulus 1"% incras- 

 satus, 2"^ brevissimus, 3"'. elongatus, 4*^8. 3°. 5". que brevior; 

 5"^. et cseteri elongati ; longitudine subaequales : labrum trans- 

 versum, margine vix excavato ; mandibulse trigonae, ad apicem 

 acutae, incurvae, extus convexae, intus sinuatae ; maxillarum la- 

 cinia linearis, brevis, pilosa; galea lacinia longior, omnino major, 

 pilosa; maxipalpi 4-articulati, articulus 1"^ brevis, 2"«. elongatus, 

 3"'. 2°. brevior, 4"% 3°. longior, incrassatus, apice oblique trun- 

 catus ; labium late emarginatum, lateribus gibbosis, palpigeris 

 latera gibbosa ; labipalpi 3-articulati, articulus 1"^. brevis, 2"'. 

 S^^.que longiores, 3"^. crassior, apice oblique truncato ; ligula 

 labipalpis vix brevior, in duos magnos lobos divisa : prothorax 

 antice posticeque ante marginem constrictus, lateribus medio gib- 

 bosis : elytra elongata, capite prothoraceque latiora, abdomine 

 longiora, linearia, apicibus rotundatis, spina nulU: pedes elongati: 

 femoribus simplicibus. 



Ency. pallipes. Punctata ; supra viridi-cenea, suhtus nigra : 

 antenna} nigrcB utroque articulo ad basin testaceo : pedes tes- 

 tacei. (Corp. long. '35 unc. ; lat. '06 unc.) 



Inhabits Canada and the United States of North America. 

 Taken at Trenton Falls by Messrs. Doubleday and Foster. 



Natural Order. — Cerambicites, Neicman. 

 Genus. — Pteracantha, Newman. 



Generi Lophonocero affinis at antennae nullo modo lanatae : caput" et 

 prothorax fere Laphonoccri : antenna; 11-articulatae, jwan's corpore 



