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tip, SO as to appear like two joints : thorax with the punctures 

 as large as those of the head, but less dense ; spines obtuse, not 

 elongated, destitute of carina : elytra with deep striae, in which 

 are rather large, close set punctures ; interstitial lines convex with 

 minute punctures: feet, color of the antennas, honey -yellow ; 

 second and third tarsal joints extended beneath into a membra- 

 naceous, rounded pulvillus. 



Length less than seven-tenths of an inch. 



This species may be distinguished by the obtuse thoracic 

 spines, and the lobed second and third tarsal joints. 



[Belongs to Asaphes. — Lec] 



38. E. INQUINATUS. — Honey-yellowish, head and suture 

 blackish. 



Inhabits United States. 



Body small, honey-yellow, with short hair : head dusky or 

 blackish : antennte pale : clypeus terminating anteriorly in a 

 rectangle : thorax dusky on the anterior margin ; lateral edge 

 rectilinear ; posterior angles acute ; base each side with an elon- 

 gated fissure : elytra, striae distinctly punctured ; sutural margin 

 widely dusky at base, and tapering to the tip : beneath reddish 

 brown: feet yellowish; tarsi with the penultimate joint only, 

 obviously lobed. 



Length under one-fifth of an inch. 



This species occurs in Pennsylvania, and Dr. Harris obtained 

 it in New Hampshire, and from North Carolina. 



[I received from Dr. Harris a specimen of Dolopius imuper 

 Lec, as this species, but avS the tarsi are not lobed it cannot be so 

 referred : I am rather inclined to believe it the same as Elatcr 

 rectkollis Say, which is an Adrastus. — Lec] 



39. E. MEMNONius. — Brown, more or less dark : antennae ru- 

 fous, compressed; length of the joints at least twice their ter- 

 minal breadth ; longer than the thorax : head densely punc- 

 tured ; front concave, anterior edge depressed in the middle by 

 the concavity, but still elevated : thorax densely, not confluently 

 punctured, convex, laterally arcuated, widest in the middle ; pos- 

 terior angles very little excurved, and at their tips somewhat in- 

 curved; carinated line nearly parallel with the edge, elevated 

 and acute; basal edge with an acute sinus near the posterior 

 1836.] 



