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about equal length and five or six times as long as wide; the antennz of 
female extending to about middle of elytra; joints three and four nearly 
equal, narrow and about twice as broad as long, joints five and six slightly 
longer and more robust and each of about similar length, joints seven 
and eight slightly longer, ninth about two thirds as long as two preceding 
together, 9-11 of about equal length and from three to four times as long 
as wide. Prothorax three fifths as long as broad, as wide as elytra, sides 
strongly arcuate and broadly margined, front and hind angles rounded, 
anterior margin transverse, base broadly lobed at middle, surface quite 
closely granulate-punctate. Elytra parallel, over three times as long as 
thorax and twice as long as broad, surface slightly more finely and sparsely 
punctate than thorax, and with coste vaguely indicated. Beneath finely 
closely punctate on abdomen, more coarsely in front. Basal tarsal joint 
slightly shorter than the two following together. Length 6 mm., breadth 
2.5 mm. 
Type male and female in my collection, collected at Carmel, Monterey 
Co., Cal., by Mr. L. S. Slevin. They were beaten from Monterey cypress, 
Cupressus macrocarpa Gord. Thirteen other specimens in my collection 
as well as numerous ones in Mr. Slevin’s collection have also been 
examined. 
This splendid species is most closely related to E. socialis Fall, 
a species found in the same territory but generally on the Mon- 
terey pine, and should perhaps precede it in the table.* It differs - 
in being much larger and more robust, so far the largest species 
to be listed in our fauna, less shining, with denser and longer pile, 
with the intermediate joints of the antennz in the male propor- 
tionally longer, so that there is not the great contrast in length 
between the three terminal joints and those which precede that 
there is in the other species, and with the anterior margin of the 
prothorax transverse and not arcuate. 
Vrilletta decorata n. sp—Moderately robust, piceous black, the elytra 
variegated with yellow, the usual markings consisting of an irregular 
oblique patch just posterior to the base and involving the intervals from 
2-5, and a series of stripes along the apical portions of the third and 
seventh intervals and the basal part of the ninth, with very fine, short, 
fulvous pubescence. The head granulate-punctate, with a faint longi- 
tudinal ridge; the antennz extending beyond hind angles of prothorax, 
joints 3-8 serrate and slightly more than one half width of ninth, the ninth 
and tenth much enlarged and serrate, the ninth slightly longer than broad 
and the tenth fully one fourth longer and both obliquely truncate at distal 
* “Revision of the Ptinide of Boreal America,’ by H. C. Fall, Trans. 
Am, Ent. Soc.,. Vol. XX XI (1905), p. 140. 
