III. F1YPERINI. 169 



219 (10,824). HYPERODES DORSALIS Dietz, 1889, 37. 



Oblong, rather robust. Piceous, densely clothed above and beneath 

 with gray and pale brown scales, the gray ones forming three distinct 

 stripes on thorax, the middle one narrow; the brown scales arranged to 

 form a broad discal stripe, reaching from base almost to apex of elytra, 

 and a diagonal line extending from humerus towards the suture. Beak 

 as long as thorax, tricarinate. Thorax more than one-half wider than 

 long, base wider than apex, sides strongly rounded, disc densely punctate, 

 and bearing numerous erect, club-shaped hairs in addition to the scales. 

 Elytra one-fourth wider than thorax; striae fine, feebly impressed; in- 

 tervals almost flat, each with a row of clavate seta?. Under surface densely 

 punctate. Last ventral of female deeply emarginate and with a deep, sharp- 

 ly defined lunate fovea. Length 4.5 5 mm. 



Described from Illinois, Texas and Louisiana. 



220 (10,826). HYPERODES ALTERXATUS Dietz, 1889, 38. 



Oblong, subdepressed. Piceous-brown; densely scaly above, almost 

 glabrous beneath, the scales matted together by a dirty brown crust, hid- 

 ing the sculpture; antennae and legs reddish-brown. Beak rather stout, as 

 long as thorax, sharply tricarinate. Thorax nearly twice as wide as long, 

 base rounded, not wider than apex, sides almost straight; disc densely and 

 finely punctate. Elytra one-fourth wider than thorax, base subtruncate, 

 parallel for two-thirds their length, then gradually narrowed to tip; stria? 

 deep, punctures large, close-set; alternate intervals strongly elevated. Un- 

 der surface closely and densely punctate. Length 3.5 mm. 



Described from Illinois. Type in the Ulke collection at Pitts- 

 burg. 



221 (- -). HYPERODES PENINSULARIS sp. nov. 



Oblong. Piceous-brown, above densely clothed with dirty white and 

 pale brown scales, the former condensed in a broad stripe each side of 

 thorax and a narrow humeral one on elytra, the latter extending back- 

 ward to near middle and curving inward to fifth interval; under side of 

 thorax and a ring near apex of each femur, densely clothed with large 

 ocellate silvery- white scales; antennas and legs reddish-brown. Beak as 

 long as thorax, narrower at middle, scarcely wider at base than apex, 

 feebly tricarinate, densely scaly. Thorax less than one-fourth wider than 

 long, disc coarsely and densely punctate, each puncture closed with a large 

 round scale. Base of elytra one-third wider than middle of thorax, humeri 

 rounded, sides straight for three-fourths their length; alternate intervals 

 distinctly, not strongly more elevated, each with a row of rather long, 

 white, inclined setae. Under surface coarsely and densely punctate. Last 

 ventral of male with a round impression near apex. Length 3.7 mm. 



(W. &. B.) 



Sanford, Fla., Apr. 4. The scales of thorax, both above and be- 

 neath, are distinctly larger than those of elytra. 



