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rather large, irregular punctures ; a few series of distant elevated 

 black points ; an obsolete common white band behind the mid- 

 dle : thighs clavate : tibiae not annulated. 



Length three-twentieths of an inch. 



This may be distinguished from either of the before mentioned 

 species ; by the pendant hair of the inferior side of the antennae, 

 &c. The white band is sometimes altogether wanting ; and if 

 very closely examined, the black points of the elytra will be 

 found to consist of fasciculated hairs. 



[This is the type of Ecyrus Lee, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila., 

 2nd ser. 2, 160.— Leg.] 



4. L. ALPHA. — Elytra each with a white oblique line extend- 

 ing backwards from the middle of the suture. 



Ceramhyx analis ? Melsh. Catal. 



Body dull reddish-brown : head longitudinally deeply indent^ 

 cd on the vertex : antennae considerably longer than the body ; 

 incisures blackish : thorax above, destitute of tubercles, but with 

 three small black spots, placed 2, 1 ; a short tubercle, abruptly 

 acute at tip, each side before the posterior angles, which are 

 emarginate ; posterior margin with a transverse indented line : 

 scutel blackish : elytra irregularly [ 271 ] punctured ; a few 

 black dots, consisting of tufts of hair, chiefly along the suture j 

 region of the scutel dusky ; a blackish marginal abbreviated line 

 from the humerus ; a blackish line margined with gray, extends 

 from the middle of the suture, obliquely backwards, towards the 

 exterior margin. 



Length nearly three-tenths of an inch. 



This species is not very rare in Pennsylvania; I also obtained 

 one in the N. W. Territory. 



[Belongs to Liopus. — Leg.] 



5. L. FACETA. — Blackish; elytra yellowish-white, with four 

 blackish bands. 



Antennae nearly twice as long as the body : thorax equal, with 

 an acute spine each side, near the posterior angles, which are 

 emarginate ; a gray mark behind the middle, in the form of a W : 

 elytra yellowish-white ; a blackish band at base, decurrent behind 

 along the suture ; a narrow oblique band before the middle, not 

 1826.] 



