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riorly and distinctly narrowed toward base ; surface near the base with two 

 distinct median fovese joined by a coarse and rather strong transverse impres- 

 sion, and a single fovea at each side above the flank, also with a small pit at 

 the basal margin behind the latter, closed by two short longitudinal carinse. 

 Elytra % longer than wide, quite distinctly more than twice as long as the 

 prothorax and nearly *^ wider, oval, widest slightly before the middle, the 

 sides broadly and evenly arcuate ; humeral plica and impression moderate in 

 size, the latter distinct ; f ovese small and approximate ; subsutural impressions 

 feeble and rather narrow ; suture very feebly beaded near the base, the bead 

 expanded at the basal margin. Legs well developed, the femora moderately 

 clavate, the anterior slightly more strongly. Length 1.25 mm.; width 0.42 

 mm. 



Pennsylvania (Westmoreland Co.). Mr. Schmitt. 



The male serves as the type of description, and the female has 

 the elytral pubescence much less abnormal and almost uniforiii 

 throughout, being sparser toward the middle posteriorly than in 

 the male, but scarcely differs in any other particular. 



The tip of the copulatory spicule in the male is slender, thin, 

 parallel, with the tip obtuse, but produced in the middle in a 

 minute rounded lobe, the lateral lobes each with a slender, seti- 

 form and unusually elongate appendage, extending much beyond 

 the tip of the corneous median portion. The first four joints of 

 the hind tarsi are almost exactly equal among themselves. 



This species is closely allied to nigrescens, but differs in its 

 much narrower prothorax and relatively larger head, somewhat 

 narrower form of the body and more oval and more basally nar- 

 rowed elytra. It is represented by a large and homogeneous 

 series, 



10. E. gratus n. sp. — Narrowly suboval, somewhat ventricose, pol- 

 ished, impunctate, bright rufo-testaceous, the legs andantennse still paler and 

 more luteous ; pubescence rather abundant, pale, strongly bristling backward 

 on the head, unusually short, closely recurved, very even and completely de- 

 void of intermingled erect setae on the elytra. Head rather well developed, 

 not quite as long as wide, subcircularly rounded behind the eyes, which are 

 only moderate in size but rather convex and prominent ; antennal i)rominences 

 moderate, the excavations very narrowly separated on the declivous front ; 

 clypeus normal, rectilinearly truncate at apex. Antennsp, short, as long as the 

 head and prothorax, moderately stout, the club strong, parallel and very abrupt 

 in formation ; second joint obconic, scarcely J^ longer than wide, as long as 

 the next two and noticeably thicker ; three to six subequal among themselves, 

 distinctly wider than long ; seventh % wider, % wider than loug ; eighth fully 

 %^ wider and % longer than the seventh, suboval, ^^5 wider than long ; ninth 

 and tenth mutually equal and scarcely visil^ly wider than the eighth, fully ^ 



