692 FxVMILY XXXV. DASCYLLID.^. 



E. oviformis Lee, length 4 mm., is known from Illinois and 

 Ohio; E. iestaceus Lee, more slender, length 3.5 mm., is said to oc- 

 cur from Canada to Pennsylvania; E. punctulatus Lee, length 2.5 

 mm., is recorded from Michigan and Virginia. 



1311 (3992). EuciNETDS mokio Lee, Proc. PMl. Acad. Nat. Sci., VI, 1853, 



357. 

 Elongate-ova], narrower behind, convex. Blackish-piceous, sparsely pu- 

 bescent; head and thorax with a reddish tinge. Thorax wider than long, 

 the sides strongly sloping downward, disk finely and sparsely punctulate. 

 Elytra distinctly substriate, their surface densely transversely strigose. 

 Sixth segment of abdomen visible in female, a small seventh segment in 

 male. Length 2.5-3 mm. 



Kosciusko and Knox counties ; scarce. May 1-June 25. Taken 

 from beneath bark and in a hard, woody, yellowish fungus on oali 

 stumps. Narrower than tervmialis and more acutely attenuate 

 behind. 



1312 (.3993). EuciKETUs teeminalis Lee, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., VI, 



1853, 357 (no name) ; List Col. N. Amer., 1865, 50. 

 Form and sculpture of morio. Piceous or black, finely pubescent; ely- 

 tra with a well defined rufous spot at tip; antenntis and legs pale. Head 

 and thorax finely and sparsely punctate. Length 2.5-3 mm. 



Lake and Marion counties ; rare. April 10-May 28. One speci- 

 men was taken from beneatli a log close to a dead shrew. It leaped 

 like a flea very rapidly several times in succession, then buried itself 

 in the dirt. 



E. strigosus Lee.,- black, legs and antennae reddish-brown, length 

 2.5 mm., is recorded from Ohio. 



IV. EcTOPRiA Lee. 1853. (Gr., ' ' outside + to make a harsh 



sound.") 



Head small, nearly vertical, received in the thorax as far as the 

 eye.s, which are partly concealed ; antenna^ half the length of body, 

 distinctly serrate in the male ; tarsal claws with a broad basal tooth 

 in both sexes, those of male bifid at lip. One species is known from 

 the eastern United States and Indiana. 



1313 (3995). EcTomuA nervosa Melsh., Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., II, 

 1844, 222. 



Oval, broadest behind the middle, moderately convex, sparsely pubes- 

 cent. Color variable, usually piceous ; thorax often >\ith pale lateral mar- 

 gins ; elytra of female often paler than thorax and with three dark lines 

 which unite before the apex. Thorax twice as wide as long, much nar- 

 rowed in front; apex truucate, half as wide as base, hind angles subacute; 



