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E. rossuLtatus, Brend. Dark brown, polished, sparsely 
pubescent. Lengthimm. Plate XII, Fig. 124. 
Head wider than long, or, excluding the eyes, as wide as 
long; eyes prominent, tempora nearly straight, convergent 
toward the base, neck as wide as the front; sides anteriorly, 
very slightly sinuate, convergent to the supra-antennal tuber- 
cles; frontal space between the tubercles depressed; frontal 
margin, a thin, convex ridge; disk uneven, the impression very 
deep, the fovee circular, mutually as far apart as either from 
the eye; the grooves are wide, parallel, ending in the large 
frontal depression; intervening space high, convex between the 
fovere. Antenne from the first to the tenth joint, as long as 
the head; first and second joints respectively as large as the 
tenth and ninth, intervening joints equal, transverse, very small, 
eleventh ovoid-acuminate, half as wide as the entire front. 
Prothorax wider than the head and wider than long, sides 
slightly sinuate near the large lateral fovea, disk minutely 
punctulate; median sulcus fusiform, nearly reaching the large, 
triangular fovea, which is connected with the lateral ones by a 
nearly straight, transverse sulcus about one-third of the pro- 
notal length. Ad/ytra, with high and prominent shoulders, the 
humeral width equal to the length of the suture and slightly 
greater than that of the prothorax; sutural lines very deep; 
three basal punctures; discal lines half the length, deep, and 
broadly impressed near the humeri. Addomen longer than the 
elytra, the first and second segments with minute carine. 
Habitat. Illinois. (Peoria). Differs from 4. pumzlus in 
the deep sculpture of the head and in the long discal lines of 
the elytra. 
E. pumiuus, Zec. Yellowish brown, pubescence thin, fine 
and short. Length 0.7 mm. 
Head small; eyes large, prominent; tempora as long as the 
eye, not prominent, interocular surface rough, abruptly elevated 
far above the eyes, nearly flat above, narrower anteriorly; base 
sinuate, occipital foveze minute, mutually one-half more distant 
than either from the eye and connected by a slightly impressed 
