TUir.K II. AXTHRIBINI. :'>.". 



d. Claws almost cleft; body elongate-cylindrical; eyes broadly 

 emarginate in front; length 7.5 or more mm. 



IX. PHOENICOBIELLA. 



dd. Claws feebly toothed at base; body stout, subcylindrical; eyes 



oval, entire; length less than 7.5 mm. X. PIEZOCORYXTS. 



cc. Front coxae well separated by the prosternum; antennal cavities 



extending to or nearly to the eyes. 



e. Eyes rounded. XL ANTIIRIBTS. 



ee. Eyes broadly emarginate. XII. TOXOXOTUS. 



bb. Tarsi with third joint feebly bilobed, not visible from above; an- 

 tennal cavities reaching the eyes. XIII. EUPARIUS. 

 aa. Beak gradually narrowed from the eyes forward; length less than 



4 mm. 



/. Basal ridge of thorax bent abruptly forward at hind angles and usu- 

 ally continued along the sides for a short distance. 



XIV. BRACHYTARSTJS. 

 //. Basal ridge gently rounded, becoming obsolete at hind angles. 



XV. ANTHRIBULUS. 



IX. PHCENICOBIELLA Cockerell, 1900. 



Beak about as long as wide, finely cariuate, emarginate in 

 front; sides acutely elevated in male, less so in female, forming 

 a ridge above the antennal cavities which are large and deep; 

 antennae of male much longer than body, second joint one-half 

 the length and much thinner than first; 3 5 very long and slen- 

 der, 6 9 gradually shorter, fringed beneath with short curled 

 hairs, 10 11 slightly thicker, similarly fringed, together equal 

 to ninth, eleventh pointed and feebly curved; of female three- 

 fourths as long as body, joints 9 11 broader, forming a loose 

 elongate club; scutellum small, round, not depressed; ventral 

 segments gradually shorter, fifth broadly emarginate; third joint 

 of tarsi broadly dilated and with a dense brush of stiff hairs be- 

 neath. One of the two species occurs with us. The name 

 Pli<r>iic(tbins Lee. was preoccupied. 



18 (9214). PHCEXICOBIELLA CHAM.EROPIS Lee., 1876, 400. 



Elongate-cylindrical. Brown, mottled with fine gray, yellow, fulvous 

 and black pubescence; elytra with the first and alternate intervals slightly 

 more convex, tessellated with black and yellow, the intervening spaces with 

 ash-gray hair; under surface, legs and antenna? also mottled with gray and 

 dark brown pubescence, metasternum densely clothed with yellowish-white 

 pubescence; outer half of ninth and all of tenth and eleventh joints of an- 

 tenna? sooty black. Length 7.3 11 mm. 



Tybee Island, Georgia, June 2(5. Enterprise, Florida, Oct. 7. 

 ('"ommon at Ft. Capron, Haulover and Enterprise, Fla., on fresh 

 cut leaves of the cabbage palmetto, April, May. October, Novem- 

 ber. 



