776 Goleopterological Notices, VI. 



H. H.", and very kindl_y given to me by Mr. Wiekham. It is one 

 of the largest known species of the subfamily. 



2. E. basalts Lee— Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1855, p. 276 (Xjio- 

 philiLS?). 



Color and sculpture as in the preceding, the basal pale space 

 of the elytra large at the humeri, but only faintly extending 

 across the scutellum, the latter more broadly truncate ; pubes- 

 cence more narrowly and indistinctly- condensed along the el3'tral 

 suture. Head transverse, the eyes at fully three-fourths of their 

 own length from the base, and about as prominent as the tem- 

 pora, the latter rounded ; antenntie nearly one-half as long as the 

 body, the tenth joint transverse, the eleventh short, conoidal, 

 much shorter than the two preceding. Prothorax much narrower 

 than the head, fully as long as wide, otherwise as in princeps. 

 Elytra nearly three-fourths longer than wide, fully twice as wide 

 as the prothorax, feebly impressed along the suture, very coarsely, 

 deeply and densely cribrate. Length 2.8 mm.; width 1.0 mm. 



Virginia and Illinois, — LeConte. This species is also represented 

 in my cabinet by a single female, and is rather closely allied to 

 jyrinceps, differing in its narrower form, more elongate and less 

 robust antennjB, which are more rapidly and apicalh' incrassate, 

 in its much less widely separated eyes, and other characters. In 

 the male of both species the apical joint of the antennae is prob- 

 ably much more elongate. 



3. E. nebulosus Lee— Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., 1875, p. 175 (Xylophilus). 



Moderately stout, convex, opaque, black, the abdomen and 

 elytra brown, the latter slightl}' paler at base ; tarsi and palpi 

 pale ; pubescence moderatel}' dense, the longer hairs of the elytra 

 moderate in length. Head transverse, the e^'es very large, more 

 prominent than the tempora, distant from the base and separated 

 by scared}- one-third of their own width ; antenna? three-fifths 

 as long as the body, moderately stout, feebly incrassate toward 

 apex, the eleventh joint long, cjdindrical, obtusely' and obliquely 

 pointed, bent and distinctly longer than the two preceding, the 

 tenth fully as long as wide. Prothorax aliout as long as wide, 

 onl}- ver^' slightly narrower than the head, narrowed in apical 

 half, the arcuate apex scarcely more than three-fifths as wide as 

 the base. Elytra two-thirds longer tlian wide, twice as wide as 

 the prothorax, parallel, obtusely rounded at apex, broadly, feebly 



