778 Coleopterological Notices, VI. 



truncate at tip, with a few stiff terminal setx externally which 

 scarcely have the nature of spurs ; the basal joint of the tarsi is 

 ver}' long and slightly bent toward base. In the male the hind 

 legs are much longer and proportionall}' a little stouter than the 

 others, but there are apparentl}' no striking abdominal or crural 

 sexual characters. The species may be known as follows : — 



Eyes separated by fully one-third of their own width 1. inelslieiiiieri 



Eyes extremely large, subcontiguous ; surface of the liead and pronotuni more 

 opaque 2. a^liiueadi 



These species are each represented in my cabinet by a single 

 male only. 



1. E. nielslieiineri Lee. — Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1855, p. 275 

 (Xylophilus). 



Rather slender, polished, black, the abdomen and elytra pale, 

 the latter with three uneven nubilate fasciae of blackish ; legs pale, 

 the intermediate somewhat, and the posterior much, darker ; an- 

 tenna? pale, the appendages and also the eleventh joint blackish. 

 Head. finely and sparsely punctate, polished and not in the least 

 reticulate, the punctures becoming slightly tuberculiform near 

 the eyes ; antenna^ two-thirds as long as the body. Prothorax 

 much narrower than the head, about as long as wide, the sides 

 parallel, subparabolically rounded in apical third, broadly arcu- 

 ato-truncate at base; disk strongly, somewhat closely and sub- 

 tubercularly punctate, not impressed. Scutellum rather narrow, 

 truncate at tip. Elytra three-fourths longer than wide, twice as 

 wide as the prothorax, distinctly and arcuately swollen behind 

 and a little wider than at base, evenly and not broadly rounded 

 at apex ; humeri not broadly exposed at base ; disk narrowly im- 

 pressed at each side of the suture, especially toward base ; omo- 

 plates feeble ; punctures very coarse, deep, close-set but not 

 crowded, with the floors flat and polished. Length 1.9 mm.; 

 width 0.7 mm. 



Illinois and Pennsylvania, — LeConte. The pubescence is coarse, 

 subdecumbent, cinereous, moderately long and sparse and some- 

 what conspicuous. 



2. E. asliiiieadi n. sp. — Moderately slender and convex, dull, blackish 

 beneath, the legs and abdomen paler; upper surface dark rufo-ferruginous, the 

 elytra paler; pronotmn feebly nubilate with blackish, the elytra with three 

 narrow blackish and uneven fasciie, the flanks also black except toward apex; 



