ANNALS OF THE LYCEUM. 39] 



Desc. Body dark coppery, with short hairs: head with rather 

 large, confluent punctures : antennas rufous, robust, much 

 serrated: palpi rufous: thorax distinctly punctured; a very ob- 

 vious, obtusely indented line extends from the base to the ante- 

 rior margin, where it is obsolete; posterior angles prominent, 

 extending a little outwards: scutel orbicular: elytra striate, the 

 striae distinctly punctured : epipleura rufous : feet rufous : venter 

 on the disk rufous. [256] 



Length rather less than three-fifths of an inch. 



Very distinct, and readily recognized. 



[If this is not identical with E. brevicornis infra p. 399, which 

 is the female of Carymbites appressifrons, it cannot be referred 

 to any species known to me. — Lec] 



5. E. parallelus. — Brown ; thorax with the anterior angles 

 dilated, and as wide as at the posterior angles. 



Elater angulatus Melsh. Catal. 



Desc. Body reddish-brown, minutely punctured : antennas ru- 

 fous, serrated: thorax longer than broad, rather widest at the an- 

 terior angles, which are much wider than the head; an impressed 

 longitudinal line obsolete on the anterior margin ; lateral edge 

 subrectilinear, scutel orbicular; elytra with impressed, punctured 

 stria?. 



Length three-fifths of an inch. 



The name angulatus is pre- occupied. 



[A Cori/mbites ; the specific name beh)g preoccupied, was re- 

 placed by sulcieollis, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 0, 168. — Lec] 



6. E. MUSCIDUS— Pale brown; thorax very short ; antennae 

 mther robust, simple. 



Elater muscidus Melsh. Catal. 



Desc. Body pale brown, a little tinged with reddish, some- 

 what densely covered with cinereous, short hair : head, trailer- 

 line between the antenna), not elevated in its middle: antennas 

 very hairy, robust, and rather long, without any appearance ol 

 serrature : mouth ciliated above : thorax very short,a little nans- 

 verse and convex, narrowed before to the width of the head, 

 somewhat widest in the middle, a little contracted before th. 

 posterior spines, which are not elongated ; a longitudinal slightly 

 impressed line from the base to the middle : scutel orbicular : 

 elytra with impunctured striae. 



