TRII'.E VII. ERIRHIXIXI. 191 



(Fig. 65, d) ; femora not toothed; tibite unarmed, truncate at tip; 

 tarsi spongy beneath, third joint broad, deeply bilobed ; claws 

 with a broad obtuse tooth at base (Fig. 65, e.) 



KEY TO EASTERN GENERA OF SUBTKIBE DERELOMI. 



o. Body wholly glabrous; prosternum very long in front of coxae; thorax 

 of male with a short oblique tooth on sides near apex. 



I. DERELOMUS. 



aa. Body very finely and sparsely pubescent; prosternum much shorter 

 in front of coxae; ihorax unarmed on sides. II. EUCLYPTUS. 



I. DERELOMUS Schon., 1826. (Gr., "fringe" -f "neck.") 



Beak projected forwards; antennal grooves passing obliquely 

 to the lower edge of eyes ; first joint of funicle stouter and as long 

 as the next two, 2 7 gradually slightly broader, club elongate, 

 pointed, pubescent; thorax quadrate, suddenly narrowed to tip 

 which is constricted; elytra scarcely wider than thorax, sides 

 parallel, tips conjointly rounded, covering the pygidiuui ; front 

 coxae narrowly separated. Our species are listed under the name 

 Notoloiiiux, of which LeConte wrote (1876, 222) : ''agrees en- 

 tirely with DereloniKS in appearance, but differs by the nearly 

 contiguous front coxse and broadly toothed claws." Champion 

 has united the two in the Biologia. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF DERELOMUS. 



a. Larger, 2 4 mm.; second joint of funicle longer than third; reddish- 

 brown, the head and thorax usually wholly or in part black. 



257. BICOLOR. 



aa. Smaller, less than 2 mm.; second and third joints of funicle sub- 

 equal; nearly uniform pale brownish-yellow, elytra usually with 

 a faint oblique bar near base. 258. BASALIS. 



257 (8708). DERELOMUS BICOLOR Lee., 1876, 222. 



Reddish-brown; head, beak, thorax and scutellum usually black; 

 elytra with two faint transverse bands slightly darker; legs and anten- 

 nae paler. Beak as long as thorax, slightly curved, finely and densely 

 punctured. Thorax as wide as long, sides parallel for three-fourths their 

 length, then rapidly converging to apex; disc alutaceous, finely and rather 

 sparsely punctate. Elytra with rows of feebly impressed punctures; inter- 

 vals nearly flat, minutely and rather thickly punctate. Length 2.3 4 mm. 



Jupiter, Fla., May 5. Enterprise, Xew Smyrna and < 'apron, 

 Fla., April and May, on the blossoms of the cabbage palmetto. 

 Of the four specimens at hand from Jupiter, three have the head 

 and beak reddish-brown, the thorax black, while the other is 

 wholly reddish-brown, y. ini/rirtr Lee. (1876, 418) was based on 

 a form of bicolor having the elytra maculate with brown and the 

 thorax a little more strongly punctate. 



