OF PHILADELPHIA. 113 



[A species of Cryptolii/pnm, afterwards described as C. sila- 

 ceipes Germ. — Lec] 



13. E. BiSECTUS. — Testaceous ; head, thoracic Hue, and suture 

 black. 



Inhabits Missouri. [174] 



Body densely hairy ; punctured ; rufo-testaceous : head black ; 

 clypeus pi'ominent ; rounded : antennae pale : thorax -with a 

 longitudinal, dorsal, black line ; posterior angles prominent, ex- 

 curved : scutel black, convex, rounded : elytra, striae indented ; 

 punctures rounded ; suture with a common black line, not attain- 

 ing the tip, dilated at the scutel and at its extremity : postpectus 

 and venter black : feet whitish. 



Lengih one-fourth oj" an inch. 



[A Monocrepidius, unknown to me. — Lec] 



14. E. coRTiciNUS. — Reddish-brown, hairy, punctured ; cly- 

 peus prominent; rounded ; hxteral thoracic edge rectilinear. 



Inhabits the United Seates. 



Ehifer corticinus Knoch in Melsh. Catal. 



Body reddish-brown, hairy, punctured : clypeus in'ominent ; 

 rounded, or very obtusely subangulated before, and each side : 

 antennae longer than the thorax : thorax, hair each side behind 

 the middle prostrate inwards towards the middle ; lateral edge 

 perfectly rectilinear from the anterior tip to the tip of the poste- 

 rior angles ; basal margin with an obsolete indented line : elytra 

 striate, punctured : beneath covered with short, prostrate hair : 

 feet rather paler. 



Length about three-fifths of an inch. 



Hemarkable for the perfectly rectilinear lateral edges of the 

 thorax, and by having the hair of the posterior part of the tho- 

 rax inclining inwards from each side towards the middle of the 

 width. 



[A species of Cratonychus. — Lec] 



15. E. SEMIYITTATUS. — Piceous-black ; thorax obsoletely 

 testaceous each side : elytra whitish, with a dusky suture and 

 abbreviated line. [175] 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body hairy, punctured, dark piceous or blackish brown : tho- 

 rax with an impressed dorsal line ; lateral margin as far as be- 

 1823.] 8 



