ANNALS OP THE LYCEUM. 391 



Desc. Body dark coppery, with short hairs : head with rather 

 large, confluent punctures : antennae rufous, robust, much 

 serrated : palpi rufous : thorax distinctly punctured ; a very ob- 

 vious, obtusely indented line extends from the base to the ante- 

 rior margin, where it is obsolete ; posterior angles prominent, 

 extending a little outwards : scutel orbicular : elytra striate, the 

 strias distinctly punctured : epipleura rufous : feet rufous : venter 

 on the disk rufous. [256] 



Length rather less than three-fifths of an inch. 



Very distinct, and readily recognized. 



[If this is not identical with E. hrcvicornis infra p. 399, which 

 is the female of Carymhites appressifrons, it cannot be referred 

 to any species known to me. — Leg.] 



5. E. PARALLELUS. — Brown ; thorax with the anterior angles 

 dilated, and as wide as at the posterior angles. 



Elater aiKjulatua Melsh. Catal. 



Desc. Body reddish-brown, minutely punctured : antennae ru- 

 fous, serrated : thorax longer than broad, rather widest at the an- 

 terior angles, which are much wider than the head ; an impressed 

 longitudinal line obsolete on the anterior margin ; lateral edge 

 subrectilinear, scutel orbicular ; elytra with impressed, punctured 

 striae. 



Length three-fifths of an inch. 



The name angulatus is pre-occupied. 



[A Corymhitcs ; the specific name being pi-eoccupied, was re- 

 placed by sulcicollis, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 6, 168. — Leg.] 



G. E. MUSGIDUS. — Pale brown ; thorax very short ; antennae 

 rather robust, simple. 



Elatcr muscidus Melsh. Catal. 



Desc. Body pale brown, a little tinged with reddish, some- 

 what densely covered with cinereous, short hair : head, transverse 

 line between the antennae, not elevated in its middle : antennae 

 very hairy, robust, and rather long, without any appearance of 

 serrature : mouth ciliated above : thorax very short, a little trans- 

 verse and convex, narrowed before to the width of the head, 

 somewhat widest in the middle, a little contracted before the 

 posterior spines, which are not elongated ; a longitudinal slightl)' 

 impressed line from the base to the middle : scutel orbicular : 

 elytra with impunctured striae. 



