")-' SUBFAMILY XII. COSSOXIX.-i:. 



ff. Form stouter, more elliptic; antennal grooves rapidly descend- 

 ing, directed beneath the eyes; beak shorter, not tapering. 



VI. STEXAXCYLUS. 

 ee. Antennas inserted at or in front of middle of beak. 



g. Antennal grooves directed toward the eyes; elytral strife very 

 deep VII. ALLOMIMUS. 



gg. Antennal grooves descending obliquely. 



h. Body pale, slender, elongate; funicle slender, club large; 

 length 1.5 mm. VIII. STEXOMIMUS. 



7(7; . Body black or dark brown, more robust. 



i. Funicle gradually stouter, club large. IX. CAULOPHILUS. 

 ii. Funicle very stout, club small. X. MKSITES. 



I. HIMATIUM. Woll., 1868. 



Small subdepressed linear or feebly v.'edge-sliaped pubescent 

 species, having the head short, almost enclosed in the tubulate 

 apex of thorax; beak parallel, feebly curved, subcylindrical ; eyes 

 rather small, flat, coarsely granulated, situated on sides and 

 under surface of head ; joints 2 7 of funicle very short, equal, 

 club small, oval, sparsely hairy; metasternmn rather long; front 

 and middle coxte widely separated ; tibia? short, scarcely longer 

 than tarsi, their terminal hook very large; third joint of tarsi 

 feebly dilated. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF HIMATIUM. 



a. Beak feebly curved, shorter than thorax, its sides parallel. 

 6. Body parallel, reddish-brown or dusky, rather densely and coarsely 

 pubescent; thorax coarsely, sub-confluently punctate; punctures 

 of elytral stria? coarse and approximate. 823. ERR.VXS. 



l>b. Body somewhat wedge-shaped, more convex; black, much less 

 pubescent, the punctures of thorax much smaller, distinctly de- 

 fined: elylral striae not impressed, the intervals wide. 



824. XIGRITULUM. 



aa. Beak straight, as long as thorax, cylindrical, not distinctly separated 

 from the head by a transverse impression; color reddish-brown. 



825. COXICUM. 



823 (9020). HIMATHM ERKAXS Lee.. 1876, 427. 



Narrow, elongate. Reddish-brown or dusky, nearly opaque, thickly 

 clothed with coarse yellowish hairs. Beak slightly shorter than thorax, 

 rugosely punctured, transversely impressed at base. Thorax subquadrate, 

 depressed, more than one-half longer than wide, widest near base; sides 

 suddenly rounded behind the widest part, gradually obliquely narrowed 

 and nearly straight in front, slightly constricted near apex, disc very 

 densely and coarsely punctured, without median smooth line. Scutellum 



