Coleopterological Notices, V. 591 



The second species makes one of the passages between Cyrto- 

 phorus and Microclytus, but the third joint of the antennae in the 

 latter is not in the least spinose, and the second is very nearly as 

 long as the fourth ; the body and legs, also, are clothed with long 

 flying hairs, which are almost, but not quite, wanting in Cyrto- 

 phorus. 



C. insiniiailS. — Parallel, moderately convex, black in color ; antemije, 

 except the basal joint, and the legs in part more or less indefinitely paler ; 

 elytra rufescent toward base ; head and pronotum densely dull, the elytra 

 shining. Head finely, densely sculptured ; eyes as in verrucosus, the upper 

 lobe not acute ; antennae slender, almost as long as the body, the second joint 

 scarcely more than one-half as long as the fourth, the latter distinctly shorter 

 tlian the fifth, third nearly one-half longer than the fourth, Prothorax not 

 quite as long as wide ; sides parallel, feebly arcuate, strongly convergent near 

 tlie base, the latter much narrower than the apex ; disk finely, densely sculp- 

 tured, the larger punctures isolated and defined by slightly elevated margins ; 

 pubescence short, decumbent and inconspicuous. Elytra more than twice as 

 long as wide, one-third wider than the prothorax and more than three times 

 as long; sides parallel; apices narrowly truncate; angles not prominent; 

 pubescent spots and bands as in verrucosus but with the basal line much less 

 oblique, more oblique however than in Microclytus. Legs short, slender ; 

 femora moderately clavate ; tibiae with short subdecumbent and uniform 

 pubescence ; tarsi short, the basal joint not as long as the remainder. Length 

 (j.O mm. ; width 1.8 mm. 



Canada (Ontario). 



The characters given in the table will readily distinguish this 

 species from verrucosus ; in fact it much more closely resembles 

 Microclytus gazellula, but differs in the characters which have been 

 given to separate the two genera. A single example, probably 

 male. 



EUDERCES Lee. 



E. exilis n. sp. — Moderately convex, pale rufous throughout, except the 

 abdomen and apical half of the elytra, which are black ; head and pronotum 

 alutaceous, minutely but strongly, evenly reticulate, not at all longitudinally 

 strigose. Head flat above, rather coarsely, unevenly punctate, the eyes com- 

 pletely divided, the upper lobe small, smooth, devoid of lenses except two 

 or three near the upper angle ; antennae slender, three-fourths as long as the 

 body, the second joint scarcely twice as long as wide, about one-third as long 

 as the third, a little shorter than the fourth, the latter much shorter than 

 five to seven, which are equal, third joint with a strong and distinct internal 

 spine at apex, the fourth with a minute spine. Prothorax one-third longer 

 than wide, the sides parallel and feebly arcuate in apical half, becoming 



