30 FAMILY II. AXTHRIBIDJE. 



on thorax and elytra and a common trans- 

 verse white spot in front of the middle of lat- 

 ter. Beak feebly carinate above. Thorax con- 

 vex, as wide as long, the ridge on sides sinu- 

 ous, reaching the middle; disc with five tufts 

 of hair. Elytra cylindrical, not wider than 

 thorax; disc with feebly impressed rows of 

 rather large punctures. Length. 3.5 5.8 mm. 

 (Fig. 29.) 



Jackson, Clark and Poser counties, In- 

 diana, scarce; May 12 July 22. James- 

 burg, Da Costa, Atco and Cape May, N. 

 Fig. 29. x 7. (After Mariatt.) J. ', May 10 July. Diinedin, Fla., fre- 

 quent; Jan. 24 March 31. Ranges from Ontario, Canada, south 

 to Florida and Texas and west to Missouri. Occurs on dead 

 branches, especially of oak, and on woody fungi. Taken at light 

 at Enterprise, Fla., Nor. 2(5. 



23 (9219). ANTHRIDUS LIVIDUS Lee., 1876, 403. 



"Elongate-cylindrical. Brown, densely clothed with short depressed, 

 mud-colored hairs, club of antenna? dark. Beak entirely flat, not at all 

 carinate. Thorax longer than wide, slightly rounded on sides, narrowed 

 from middle to apex which is broadly rounded. Elytra with striae com- 

 posed of small distant punctures, entirely even and equal in width. Length 

 4.4 mm." (LeConte.) 



Lake Harney, Sebastian Hirer, Florida, one specimen. Wil- 

 mington, X. C., April 16, ,on ocean beach. (Davis.} For some 

 reason, to us unknown, this species is transferred to Brachytarsus 

 in Borie's Catalogue. 



XII. TOXOXOTUS Lac., ISfiO. (Gr., "curve" + u baek.") 



Beak flat, as long as wide, emarginate in front, feebly cari- 

 nate; antennal carities large, deep, almost reaching the eyes; 

 antenna? of male longer than body, of female half as long, first 

 joint cylindrical, robust, half as long as second, the two to- 

 gether equal to third, 3 8 slender, subequal, !) clarate, its outer 

 half united with 10 and 11 to form a slender, loose club; fourth 

 ventral segment shorter than the others; legs thickly clothed 

 with erect, tiring hairs; first joint of tarsi in male prolonged as 

 a sharp spine. 



24 (9220). TOXONOTUS FASCICULARIS Schon., 1833, 132. 



Oblong, subcylindrical. Brown, densely clothed with ash-gray, white 

 and yellowish hairs, the latter covering the beak, forming a conspicuous 

 patch each side of front half of thorax and a line along each elytral inter- 

 val; the white hairs condensed into a conspicuous spot on declivity of ely- 

 tra. Thorax convex, strongly narrowed in front; disc with three promi- 



