ANNALS OF THE LYCEUM. 



23. E. brevicqrnis.— Antennae very short; thorax blackish, 

 anterior and posterior margins piceous. [266] 



Desc. Head hairy : vertex obtusely indented ; transverse line 

 of the front slightly elevated: antennae not reaching beyond two- 

 thirds the length of the thorax; piceous; joint subcordate 

 rated second joint much shorter than the third: thorax rather 

 convex, blackish, slightly tinged with very dark purple-cop] 

 anterior and posterior margins obsoletely piceous ; lateral edges 

 parallel, curving inwards before the middle; posterior angles ex- 

 curved; a longitudinal, obtuse, slightly impressed line obsolete 

 before the middle : scutel ovate orbicular, hairy : elytra dark 

 brownish, very slightly metallic, lateral margin and suture paler ; 

 with impressed, punctured striae : beneath blackish : feet dull 

 rufous : pectus dull rufous on the anterior margin : venter with 

 the margin, and edges of the segments dull rufous. 



Length three-fifths of an inch. 



The antennae are shorter than those of any other sp< 

 have seen, with the exception of the rectangularis nob., for which, 

 however, it cannot be mistaken. 



[This is the female of Corymbites appressifrons. — Lec] 



24. E. clypeatus. — Black ; antennae and feet rufous ; clypeus 

 extending down to the mouth. 



Desc. Body slender, deep black, punctured : head with a shal- 

 low rounded indentation on the front : clypeus narrowed between 

 the antennae, thence dilated and extending down to the month : 

 antennae serrate, bright rufous, joints short, second aboul 

 third as long as the third joint: thorax widest at the base, poste- 

 rior angles exeurved, and towards their tips incurved : 

 rather large ; elytra with impressed, punctured stria ; si 

 third, and fourth striae confluent behind the middle : feet dull 

 rufous. 



Length less than one-fifth of an inch. [267 j 



This may be mistaken for the quercinus nob.; but an inspection 

 of the form of the head and its parts will show that it is very 

 distinct. The form of the clypeus is somewhat unusual ; in 

 of terminating in an elevated line between the antennae, or but 

 little before them, it is very much narrowed in that part, and as 

 it descends towards the mouth, it dilates very much. 



[Belongs to Eucnemis. — Lec] 



