OF PHILADELPHIA. 347 



4. C. PROBA. — Black ; a lateral spot oa the thorax, and three 

 on each elytron, yellowish. 



Body rounded-oval, black, punctured, convex : head immacu- 

 late : antenna honey yellow : thorax with a large, oval, pale 

 yellow spot on each lateral margin ; elytron each with a rather 

 large, yellowish, orbicular spot somewhat before the middle, two 

 smaller orbicular yellow spots placed transversely beyond the 

 middle, and nearer the exterior and sutural edges than to each 

 other. 



Length nearly one-tenth of an inch. 



[Also a ITi/peraspis. — Lec] 



EUMORPHUS Fabr. 



1. E. DISTINCTUS. — Rufous; elytra with a common vitta, and 

 another on the exterior margin, black. 



Endomt/cJius distinctus Melsh. Catal. 



Body bright rufo-sanguineous : antennae dark piceous, terminal 

 joint paler : thorax with an impressed line on the lateral sub- 

 margin ; disk somewhat darker than the lateral margin : elytra 

 with a rather broad, common, black vitta, commencing at the 

 scutel, becoming a little narrower towards the tip, and abbreviated 

 before the tip of the suture ; an elongated black spot on the 

 middle of the lateral submargiu, and occupying more than one- 

 half of its length : beneath immaculate. 



Length less than a quarter of an inch. 



A fine species, by no means common. 



[Belongs to Mycetina Muls., and was previously described as 

 Lycoperdina vittata Germ., or rather Tritoma vittata and Catops 

 vittahis Fabr. ; also as Endomyclius h'neatns Oliv. — Lec] 



2 E. AXGULATUS. — Dark rufous, margin and feet paler. 



Endomychus limbatus Melsh. Catal. [304] 



Body dark rufous or piceous : thorax a little convex ; an im- 

 pressed line on the lateral submargin ; lateral margin paler than 

 the disk : elytra a little convex, with a paler exterior margin, 

 sometimes obsoletely so on its middle, the paleness being then 

 confined to the humerus and tip : feet pale rufous : anterior tibise 

 with a prominent angle on the inner middle. 



Length rather more than one-fifth of an inch. 

 1826.] 



