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area axillaris antica dimidio distali per venam spuriam divisa. — Femora postica, 

 extus superne nigro 3-fasciala, intns nigra flavo-bifasciata. Tibias posticss coeruleae. 

 Arolia inter ungues minuta, lobiformia. — Valvse genitales inferae feminarum parte 

 basali ut consuete longiore quam latiore, extus et postice late sulcatae. 

 Species m America boreali vulgares. 



Synopsis specierum. 



a. Major. Verticis scutellum 9 seque longum ac latum, tf longuis. Pronotum prominulenter 

 cristatum, metazona quam prozona vix longiore. Antennae J 1 crassa;, longissimse. . /. sordidus, I!. 

 a,a. Minores. Verticis scutellum 9 tf longius quain latius. Pronotum mimiliter cristatum, roeta- 

 zona quam prozona distincte longiore. Antenna? minus crassae. 



6. Major - ; elytris integris 2. costalis, Sc. 



b,b. Minor ; elytris apiee abbreviatis £ parvus Sc. 



1. E. sorriirius. Burm. — (JEdipoda sordida, Burm. Handb. II, 643, et auct. — 



Thomas, Acrid. 116. — Loc. nebulosa, Harr. Ins. inj. to Veget. 146. — OEdip. 

 nebulosa, Erichs. Arch. f. Nat. II, 230; Uhler ed. Harris 181. — Tragoceph. 

 sordida, Slal, Becens. I, 119, 2. — Encoptol. sordidus, Scud. Proc. Bost. Soc 

 XVII, 1875,479, I. 



Viridis vel fuscescens pronoto obsolele pallide-decussalo. — Pronotum rugulosum, 

 supra inaequale, postice rectangulum. Prozona et metazona in parte antica dorsi 

 utrinque late impressa^; crista in canlho marginala, in medio profunde inter- 

 secta, parte antica fere recta, parte postica subarcuata paulo humiliore. Prozona 

 superne pone impressiones rugosa, granulata. — Elytra bruneo-trifasciata apice 

 mullipunctata vel tessellata, nunc transverse, nunc irregulariter reticulata, q" latiora, 

 adapicem haud attenuata, late rotundata. - Alse dimidio basali hyalino-sulfurescentes 

 vel virescentes, venis diaphanis, apice infuscatse vel nebulosae ; campus anticus Q apice 

 acutior, tf latus apice obtusus; costa ultra medium 9 anguste longiuscule fusca, 

 (j 1 crassius opaca; venae mediae ramus anticus Q vix incrassatus, areolis furcae qua- 

 dratis. — Mares quara feminae valde minores. — Long. 9 30, q* 21 ; El. Q 25, 

 Cf 18 mill. — ■ Amer. boreal.; Nova-Anglia: Georgia; Texas. 



2. E. oo.stali.s, Scud. — OEdip. costalis, Scudd. Bost. Journ. of N. H. VII, 473; 



Thomas Acrid. 112. — Tragocephala costalis, Sl&l, Becens. I, 119, 3. — 

 Encoptol. 'costalis, Scud. Pror, Bost. Soc. XVII, 1 875, 480, 2. 



Minor, viridis, fusco-raarmoratus; pronoti dorso pictura decussata pallida vel 



