COLEOPTERA. Ill 



Tampa, Florida, 3. 



This extremely well-marked species is described from Dr. LeConte's 

 type specimen ; all its characters are of pronounced singularity. The 

 posterior extremities of the frontal canaliculations are scarcely per- 

 ceptibly dilated, and do not, as far as I can observe, terminate in 

 foveae as mentioned by Dr. LeConte. 



Although possessed of a medial longitudinal impression on tlie 

 anterior portion of the pronotum, I have included this species in the 

 section without such canaliculation because of its excessive feebleness 

 and diflfuseness, and on account of the analogy which the species bears 

 to the latter in most of its characters. 



14. E. crinitus Brend.— Proc. Phil. Soc. Phil. 1865, p. 260.— Form 

 •rather robust; pubescence pale fiavo-cinereous, very dense, uniformly dis- 

 tributed, conspicuous, having a few much longer setae on the abdomen ; 

 color throughout pale ferruginous, legs and antennae not paler ; integu- 

 ments feebly shining. Head much broader than long ; epistoma arcuate 

 anteriorly; posterior angles obsolete; eyes rather large and prominent; 

 interocular surface not punctate, having two round very deeply impressed 

 foveae, pubescent at the bottom and on a line with the anterior portions of 

 the eyes, mutually nearly twice as distant as either from the eye; interme- 

 diate surface entire, very convex ; anterior canaliculations strongly conver- 

 gent and extremely feeble ; supra-antennal tuberculations very prominent ; 

 antennae robust, tenth joint twice as wide as long, eleventh unusually 

 slender, elongated, gradually acuminate toward tip, slightly longer than the 

 three preceding together. Prothorax large, much longer and just visibly 

 wider than the head, widest at one-third its length from the apex where it 

 is very slightly wider than long ; sides thence very strongly convergent and 

 slightly arcuate anteriorly, slightly less convergent and slightly sinuate 

 posteriorly; anterior margin shorter than the base, nearly equally and feebly 

 arcuate; disk moderately convex, very feebly punctulate ; having at one- 

 fourth the length from the base a very strong transverse canaliculation 

 which is strongly cusped posteriorly in the middle, cusp-point but slightly 

 dilated into a puncture, arms terminating laterally in small deeply im- 

 pressed spongy-pubescent foveae. Elytra at base slightly wider than the 

 pronotum ; sides just visibly divergent posteriorly, scarcely one-fifth longer 

 than the width at base, rather strongly and evenly arcuate throughout ; 

 together transversely truncate behind ; suture nearly one-half longer than 

 _ the pronotum ; disk depressed, finely feebly and confusedly punctulate ; 

 sutural striae outwardly arcuate, strong ; at the base of each elytron there 

 is a longitudinal impression which entirely disappears at one-third the 

 length posteriorly ; humeri prominent. Abdominal segments as wide as, the 

 contiguous elytra ; sides parallel ; margin strong ; surface very feebly con- 

 vex, confusedly and minutely roughened; first and second segments having 

 at the base two short distant feeble carinae which are somewliat strongly 

 divergent. Legs slender. Length 1.6 mm. 



