COLEOPTERA. 115 



Georgia, 2 ; Virginia, 1. 



The description is taken from Dr. LeConte's type wliich is a male. 

 The maxillary palpi are moderately robust, first joint very short and 

 slender, second nearly three times as long, very slender at base and 

 extremely strongly clavate toward tip, third sub-globular slightly 

 narrower than the tip of" the second, fourth nearly as long as the first 

 three together, strongly fusiform, finely acuminate at tip and more 

 than twice as long as wide. The pad of sensitive setae on the under 

 surfoce of the head is rather sparse, and in one specimen, that I'rom 

 Virginia, which I believe belongs to this species, appears to be alto- 

 gether absent. 



The insects of this genus are unusually well provided with sensory 

 apparatus ; the spongy-pubescence at the bottom of the frontal and 

 pronotal foveae, the well-developed antennal club and maxillary palpi, 

 and the capitate setae of the inferior surface of the head, are a com- 

 bination of sense organs apparently rarely equaled in the larger insects 

 of the order. 



18. E. leTiceps n. sp. — Form rather slender. Pubescence short, fine, 

 cinereoiis, somewhat conspicuous ; color throughout dark castaneous, ante- 

 rior portions of head, oral organs, legs and antennae pale reddisli-testaeeous. 

 Head small, very slightly longer than wide ; eyes large, rather prominent ; 

 genae obtusely rounded, not as long as the eye ; interocular surface very 

 convex, shining, impunctate, having two very small deeply impressed 

 spongy-pubescent foveae scarcely more widely separated than either from 

 the corresponding eye and on a line with tlie middle points of the latter ; 

 intermediate surface strongly and evenly convex ; from each fovea extends 

 anteriorly a nearly straight rather deeply impressed canaliculation, the two 

 being mutually feebly convergent and connected behind the feebly elevated 

 clypeal ridge by a short very feebly impressed anteriorly arcuate channel ; 

 supra-antennal tuberculations rounded and prominent ; antennae rather 

 slender, one-half longer than tlie head, club robust, ninth joint as long as 

 and very slightly wider than the eighth, slightly transverse, tenth scarcely 

 longer than the ninth, two-thirds wider, eleventh slightly wider than the 

 tenth, elongated, conoidal and acuminate, nearly as long as the four preced- 

 ing joints together. Prothorax widest at one-third its length from the apex 

 where it is slightly wider than the head and a little wider than long ; sides 

 thence very strongly convergent anteriorly, feebly sinuate and feebly con- 

 vergent posteriorly, evenly and distinctly arcuate; apex two-thirds as long 

 as the base and one-half as long as the greatest pronotal width, both equally 

 and feebly arcuate ; disk rather strongly convex, highly polished, most ex- 

 cessively feebly and minutely punctulate ; at two-thirds the length from the 

 apex there is a transverse narrow deep and sharply defined furrow connect- 

 ing a median and two lateral circular spongy-pubescent foveae, the median 

 one rather dilated laterally and connected with the basal edge of the pro- 



