Jan., '04] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 35 



with lighter hairs ; longer than broad, sides slightly arcuate, little wider 

 than the elytra, and with fine strongly elevated transverse rugae at middle 

 and others on each side. Elytra, black with two oblique bands of white 

 hairs, the anterior band narrow and the most definite. Beyond the pos- 

 terior band much smoother ; shining ; slightly tuberculate and with 

 minute pubescence. Abdomen black beneath ; the meta-sternum dark 

 brown with two transverse stripes of white pubescence. Legs dark 

 brown, the femora black, or nearly so. 



The length of the type is 6 mm., but the* size will no doubt 

 vary considerably as in other species of the genus. The in- 

 sect is about the size and general aspect of a black Euderces 

 picipes, but the structural characters are entirely different, and 

 the resemblance does not extend beyond the first glance. 



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