TIM HE II. A LOP II I XI. 



II. LEPIIXU-IIOUUS Kirby, 1837. ( Gr., "bearing" -(- "scales.") 



Small oblong-oval species having the beak shorter than 

 thorax, stout. snbcylindrical, straight: antennal grooves broad, 

 short, directed toward the eyes, scape nearly as long as the re- 

 mainder of the antenna 1 , reaching across the eye, first joint of 

 funicle as long us the next two united, 3 7 equal in length, club 

 oval, pointed; thorax without postocular lobes; scutellnm very 

 small or invisible; femora clavate. unarmed. One of the two 

 known species occurs with us. 



183 (- -). LEPIDOPHORVS SETIGKR Hamilton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., XXII, 

 1895, 347. 



Piceous, antennas and legs reddish-brown; above rather 

 densely clothed with small, round, brownish and 

 scattered white scales, the latter easily abraded, 

 forming three faint stripes on thorax and feeble 

 niottlings on elytra; under surface less densely 

 scaly. Beak dilated towards tip, a little flat- 

 tened above, densely scaly. Thorax slightly wider 

 than long, convex, feebly narrowed in front, not 

 constricted at apex, except at sides, densely, rather 

 coarsely punctured, each puncture bearing a 

 small round scale. Elytra one-half wider than 

 thorax, subinflated, finely striate, with close, 

 minute punctures in the bottom; intervals wide, 



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flat, seemingly impunctate, each with a row of 

 Fig. S7 X ii. 

 "(Original.) stout yellow inclined setae extending from base 



to apex. Male with hind part of metasternum and first and second ventral 

 segments jointly concave; third and fourth ventral segments united one- 

 half longer than either of the preceding and equal to fifth. Length 3 3.5 

 mm. (Fig. 57.) 



Deer Park, Maryland, April 7. St. Vincent, Pa., Virginia and 

 New York. The pale stripes of thorax and niottlings of elytra 

 are only visible in well preserved specimens. Differs from line- 

 aticoUis Kirby in its smaller size, the latter also having a "longer 

 beak, a different form of thorax, larger scales, and the elytral 

 seta? visible only on the declivity." (Hamilton.) 



Tribe III. HYPERINI. 



Species of medium or rather large size having the body more 

 or less oval ; mandibles broad, stout, more or less pincer -shaped, 

 emarginate at tip (except in Hijpcra) ; antenna? inserted on the 

 sides near tip of beak, elbowed, scape long, funicle 7-joiuted, the 

 first two joints longer than the others, club elongate-oval 

 pointed; beak usually rather long, its antennal grooves reaching 

 nearly to tip, deep, directed toward the lower part of eye ; scutel- 



