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basalibus 2 leviter incrassatis (2° quam basalis vix breviori), 

 3° quam 2 US manifeste longiori, 3° — 8° gradatim brevioribus, 

 9° — 11° clavam oblongam formantibus, 9° vix trans verso, 

 10° brevi trans verso, 11° vix transverso quam 9 US vix breviori ; 

 oeuli sat magni, integri, sat subtiliter granulati ; prothorax 

 transversus, vix insequalis, sat convexus, antice et postice 

 fortiter angustatus (margine antico quam basis sat angus- 

 tiori), carina antebasali bene definita retrorsum in medio 

 angulata in prothoracis lateribus vix perspicue producta ; 

 scutelium parvum ; elytra convexa, inaequalia, leviter striata, 

 striis subtiliter sat crebre punctulatis ; coxae anticse inter se 

 manifeste separatee ; pedes modici, inter se sat sequales ; 

 tarsi modici, articulo basali quam 2 US sat longiori, 3° in 2° 

 inserto ; unguiculi subtus dente parvo armati ; metasternum 

 minus breve (quam segmentum ventrale basale vix longius) ; 

 pygidium manifestum ; corpus pubescens. 



This genus is difficult to place in Lacordaire's arrangement. 

 Its rostral scrobes are much like those of E. dersoplagiatus, being 

 of oblong form and running hindward obliquely on the under 

 surface of the head, but scarcely long and deep enough to be 

 called unreservedly " sulciform." It is difficult to say whether 

 Lacordaire would have placed it in the groups having the base of 

 the rostrum narrower than the head, the rostrum being scarcely 

 (but nevertheless a little) narrower a little in front of the base 

 than the head between the eyes. To me it appears that it ought 

 not to stand far from Tropideres, although a strict application of 

 Lacordaire's tabulation - characters would place it in the 

 " Phlceopliilides" but in the diagnosis of that "groupe" "scrobes 

 decouvertes " is one of the characters, which they certainly are 

 not in this genus — nor does the species before me agree in its 

 general characters or facies with any genus known to me of that 

 group. I believe the specimen on which I have founded this 

 genus to be a male. 



JE. marmoratuSj sp. nov. Picea, pube nigricanti ochrea et alba 

 variegata, antennis (clava excepta) et pedibus (plus minusve) 

 rufescentibus ; capite rostroque (his haud continue planis) 

 crebre rugulose punctulatis, rostro longitudinaliter obsolete 

 carinato ; prothorace quam longiori fere ut 4 ad 3 latiori, 

 supra longitudinaliter sat dense rugato, lateribus ab apice 

 longe ultra medium arcuatim divergentibus hinc ad basin 

 fortiter convergentibus, — elytris inter humeros et scutelium 

 (et in humeris) callosis, interstitiis alternis leviter convexis 

 et tuberculis nonnullis parvis instructis ; corpore subtus sat 

 gequaliter albido-pubescenti ; pedibus maculatim albo- et 

 piceo-pubescentibus. 

 ~Var pubis pallidse colore brunneo-testaceo. Long., 2f 1.; lat., 

 11. 



