408 srr.FAMiLv x. rrurr 



name oratus "until some other insect occurs better suited to 

 Sav's description." Casey (1802), without remarks on the sub- 

 ject, transferred and described Ray's species under the genus 

 i^liofttctliufi, described what he thought was LeConte's species 

 under the name Htctltolaris orata. and described as new the true 

 orata under the name *S'. conf/mmum. A study of LeConte's 

 type of BarhJiiift oratux at Cambridge shows its thorax to be non- 

 striffose beneath, its dorsal line faint and interrupted and the 



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elytra to be "deeply striate, stria 1 punctured and interspaces 

 narrow, each with a row of fine but distinct punctures," exactly 

 as described by LeConte (18TG, 303.) Casey's 8. congerni<i(i is, 

 therefore a synonym of #. orata Lee. 



XXV. ZAGLYPTUS Lee., 187fi. 



Very small, oval, strongly sculptured species, bearing long, 

 stiff erect yellowish hairs; beak slightly longer than head and 

 thorax, evenly feebly curved, the antenna 1 inserted just beyond 

 its middle; prosternum broadly and feebly impressed along the 

 middle; thorax with base strongly sinuate and deeply margined, 

 the apex tubulate: elytra wider than thorax, gradually narrowed 

 behind from the rather prominent humeri ; first and second ven- 

 tral segments very large, closely united. The genus and two 

 species were characterized by LeConte, who placed them in the 

 tribe Cryptorhyiicliini, from which they were removed to their 

 present position by Casey. They are the smallest known mem- 

 bers of the Barini. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF ZAGLYPTUS. 



a. Elytra with coarsely punctured shallow striae, the intervals rather 



wide. 629. STRIA-ITS. 



oo. Elytra deeply sulcate, the grooves punctured; intervals narrow; color 



darker. 630. SULCATUS. 



629 (8751). ZACLYI-TI-S STRIATCS Lee., 1876, 237. 



Oval, convex. Dark reddish-brown, shining, upper surface with a few 

 long, slender, yellowish prostrate hairs at base of thorax, in addition to the 

 long, stiff seta?. Beak rather slender, striate, punctate toward base. Thorax 

 conical, one-half wider than long, disc very coarsely, not densely, punctate. 

 Elytra oval, one-fourth wider at base than thorax; intervals twice as wide 

 as the sti'ial punctures, each with a row of long, yellowish, erect hairs, 

 arising from minute punctures. Length 1.4 mm. 



Known from Pennsylvania, District of Columbia and Ohio, 

 l.oth it and the next occur in dead branches, especially those of 

 young oak lying on the ground. ( tidnrai:;'. I 



