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long, its apex and base truncate; seutellum invisible; elytra 

 strongly convex and with rows of seta?. Two species repre- 

 sent the genus in the Eastern United States, one of which is 

 herewith described as new. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF PHYXEL1S. 



a. Second joint of funicle scarcely longer than first; beak distinctly 

 narrower than head, separated from the latter by a feeble trans- 

 verse impression. 137. EIGIDUS. 

 aa. Second joint of funicle two-thirds longer than first; beak as broad 

 as head, separated from the latter by a strong transverse impres- 

 sion. 138. LATIROSTRTS. 



137 (8281). PIIYXELIS RIGIDUS Say, 1831, 11; ibid. I, 272. 



Short, ovate, robust. Piceous brown, rather densely clothed with small 

 grayish scales and usually thickly coated with a dirty brown or yellowish 

 waxy crust; funicle, club and tarsi reddish-brown. Beak and head densely 

 covered with minute grayish scales, the former often with a narrow median 

 sulcus. Thorax, one-fourth wider than long, sides slightly curved, ocular 

 lobes small; disc with a faint median impressed line, densely scaly and 

 bearing numerous short scattered seta? arising from minute tubercles. 

 Elytra broadly oval, base truncate, not wider than middle of thorax; disc 

 feebly striate, the strise marked with large punctures, intervals feebly 

 convex, each with a single row of rather long, coarse, inclined yellowish 

 seta?. Length 3.54.5 mm. 



Lake, Kosciusko, Putnam and Marion counties, Ind., scarce; 

 March IT June 3. Taken by sifting. The earlier date indicates 

 that with us it hibernates as imago, and Chittenden states (1890, 

 107) that in New York it "hibernates under piles of weeds and 

 rubbish in fields and gardens where it may be found early in 

 spring and late in autumn." Common under stones in spring 

 near New York City; on herbage, May July. Ranges from Can- 

 ada, New England and Michigan west and south to Iowa, North 

 Carolina and Georgia. P. glomerosus and sctifcrus, described 

 respectively from Boston and New York by Boheman, are treated 

 as synonyms of riytdits by Horn, and we can find no definite 

 characters in the descriptions separating them from that species 

 or from one another. 



138 ( ). PHYXELIS LATIROSTRIS sp. nov. 



Short, ovate, more robust than rigidus. Piceous-black, above densely 

 clothed with small grayish and fuscous scales, the waxy coat less evident on 

 elytra; femora and tibiaa dark reddish brown; antennae and tarsi paler. 

 Beak slightly longer but not narrower than head, densely covered with a 

 yellowish waxy coat, its disc flat, with a slight median ridge and a broad 

 transverse depression at base. Scape proportionally stouter and shorter 



