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short hairs, dull rufous, with punctured striae, of which the third and 

 fourth are confluent before the tip : feet and venter on the margin ru- 

 fous. — Length seven-twentieths of an inch. 



The posterior thoracic angles are unusually short and rounded. 



26. F. vernalis^ Hentz. Also inhabits Indiana. I obtained several 

 specimens in the autumn on the root of an overturned tree. 



27. E. hieroglyphicus, Harris; Catal. Bronzed-black ; elytra pale 

 rufous, with two undulated black bands. — luhab. Massachusetts and 

 Kew Hampshire. Harris. Pennsylvania. 



Body short, robust: head with yellow prostrate hair: clypeus angu- 

 lated before and but little elevated : antennx rufous ; second joint half 

 as long as the third ; last joint not larger than the preceding one : tho- 

 rax convex, covered with prostrate, yellow hair, lateral edge regularly 

 but not prominently arcuated; posterior angles excurved, subacute, 

 slightly carinated, with a small sinus at their inner origin: elytra pale 

 yellowish rufous, striated ; striae without very distinct punctures, third 

 and fourth confluent before the tip ; interstitial spaces punctured ; a 

 blackish undulated band from the humerus, is connected by a subsu- 

 tural blackish vitta, with another undulated band behind the middle, 

 which is decurrent along the subsuture nearly to the tip: beneath tinged 

 with rufous :yee/ rufous. — Length less than half an inch. 



In some specimens the posterior band is also decurrent along the 

 exterior margin nearly to the tip. 



28. E. choris. Thorax rugulous, black, with yellow hairs ; elytra 

 yellowish bifasciate with black. — Inhab. Indiana. 



Body black: antennae piceous, dull yellowish at base: thorax longi- 

 tudinally rugulous, black, with numerous, golden, prostrate hairs; pos- 

 terior angles acute, but not much elongated ; carinated line prominent, 

 elongated, arcuated : elytra pale yellowish, with a black spot at base, 

 an angulated band on the middle, interrupted into a spot towards the 

 suture, and another black angulated band, dilated near the suture, 

 which it does not reach, but passes abruptly backward towards the tip ; 

 striae as broad as the interstitial lines: beneath tinged with piceous: 

 feel pale yellowish Length one-fifth of an inch. 



I took three individuals. 



29. E. dorsalis, Nob. (Journ. A. N. S.). This name was given by 



