410 SI BFAMILY X. CURCULIOXIX.E. 



Cocoanut Grove, Florida, April 25. A unique and handsome 

 species. 



XXVIII. CATAPASTUS Casey, 1802. (Or., "strewn" or "scattered.") 



Very small, robust, oval or snbrhomboidal species, having the 

 beak short, stout, broad, usually flattened toward apex, densely 

 and finely punctate throughout; antenna* inserted beyond its 

 middle, the scape nearly reaching the eye, joints 2 7 of fnnicle 

 short, subequal ; mandibles as in Zi/</ol)<iris; scutellnm small, 

 usually densely scaly; ])rosteriium with a broad, deep impression 

 along its middle, this narrower and deeper toward apex; tarsal 

 cla\vs small, connate in basal third. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF CATAPASTl'S. 



a. Scutellum glabrous, with a small white spot each side; upper surface 



sparsely clothed with scattered white scales. 633. ALIJOXOTATCS. 



aa. Scutellum densely scaly; surface above densely clothed with small 



brown scales, and larger white or yellowish ones. 



b. Scales of upper surface forming a definite pattern, viz., a broad 



brown band along the middle of thorax and a W-shaped pale mark 



across the suture of elytra at middle. 634. SHJXATIPEXXTS. 



1>1>. Scales of upper surface not arranged as above, the white ones of 



elytra widely scattered. 



c. Legs blackish; antenna? piceous, the club abruptly much paler; 



thorax but slightly wider than long. 635. COXSPERSTS. 



cc. Legs and antennae pale reddish-brown throughout; thorax one-half 



wider than long; scattered white scales of elytra larger and 



broader. 636. DIFET'SCS. 



633 (- -). CATAI-ASTTS ALBOXOTATTS Linell, 1897, 56. 



Rhomboidal, convex. Piceous black, tarsi reddish-brown; very sparsely 

 clothed with scattered white scales, which are very narrow and small on 

 the ventral surface, larger on thorax and elytra, where they are collected 

 into small spots on the base of the second interval and on the base of the 

 thorax opposite the humeral umbone. Beak thick, coarsely striate-punctate, 

 not flattened at apex, strongly curved and abruptly bent at middle. Thorax 

 as long as wide, sides slightly rounded, feebly constricted at apex; disc 

 rather coarsely punctate, the punctures separated by their own diameters. 

 Elytral stria? narrow, remotely and finely punctate; intervals each with a 

 row of small distant punctures and fine transverse strigse, the white scales 

 mostly on the third, seventh and ninth intervals. Length 1.7 mm. 



Lake Worth and Key West, Florida. 



634 (- -). CATAPASTTS SH;XATIPKXXIS Linell, 1897, 55. 



Robust, rhomboidal, convex. Black, somewhat shining, antennce and 

 legs piceous. Thorax densely covered with rounded scales, forming a 

 broad brown band along the middle and a yellowish white one on the sides, 

 with a denuded spot each side of the basal lobe; elytra sparsely clothed with 



