202 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



EUDERCES LEC. 



526. Eu. Reicliei. Piceo-ferrugiueus, pilis longis erectis parcis ves- 

 titns, prothorace latitudine longiore, punctate, apice Isevi, lateribus paulo 

 rotundatis, basi late tubulatim pedunculate ; elytris striga eburnea trans- 

 versa baud obliqua ornatis, ante medium punctatis asperatis, basi paulo 

 gibbosis, pone medium nigris politis. Long. 4 5 mm. 



Texas ; two specimens. I saw this species in the Oxford museum, 

 and adopt the name there appended to it with great pleasure, as 

 a deserved compliment to my excellent friend Mr. L. Reiche of 

 Paris. It is smaller than Eu. picipes, and is easily distinguished 

 from similarly colored varieties of that species by the prothorax 

 being smooth near the apical margin, and not longitudinally pli- 

 cate, but only punctured on the rest of the surface ; the elytra are 

 similarly sculptured, but the sub-basal tubercles are less developed, 

 and the ivory band is exactly transverse, and not directly slightly 

 backwards, as in that species. The antennae are not spinose. 



Eu. pini Fitch ; Call, pini Oliv., 01. piniadeus Fabr., Gory, and 

 Lap., incorrectly referred by Lacordaireto Tillomorpha, is closely 

 allied to Eu. picipes, and varies in color in the same manner ; the 

 prothorax is plicate, smooth at the apex for a long distance as in 

 Eeichei, but the sides are rounded in a different manner from the 

 other two species, being more prominent and subangulated at the 

 middle. The elytra are velvety for a space behind the ivory band, 

 which is slightly oblique as in picipes, but the sub-basal eleva- 

 tion is more developed, and there is an oblique band of silvery 

 hair at one-third from the apex, which is frequently accompanied 

 towards the suture by a shorter line placed in front of it. 



The eyes are completely divided as in the other species, but 

 the upper lobe is much smaller, and reduced in fact to a very few 

 lenses, thus approaching the genus Tillomorpha, in which the 

 upper lobe is entirely wanting. 



527. Eu. parallelllS. Niger, prothorace longitudinaliter plicato, 

 latitudine paulo longiore, ovato, lateribus rotundatis, basi multo angus- 

 tiore ; elytris confertim postice subtilius punctatis, usque ad medium 

 velutinis, fasciis duabus eburneis transversis rectis parallelis ante 

 medium signatis, anteriore intus abbreviata ; antennis baud spinosis. 

 Long. 5 mm. 



Lower California, Mr. Ulke. Very different by the double 

 elytral ivory fasciae, which are transverse, not at all oblique. 



