(300 FAMILY IV. - SCOLYTIDJE. 



joints being too difficult to observe with ordinary hand lenses to 

 serve as a separating character. 



934 ( ). STEPHAXODERES EVOXYMI Hopkins, 1915-a, 26. 



Uniform light brown. Pronotum with four equal and two small mar- 

 ginal teeth. Front convex, with faint, shining, median elevation. Strial 

 punctures moderately coarse, becoming coarser on declivity. Length, 

 female, 1.2 mm.; male, 0.925. 



Morgantown, W. Ya., in Emmi/innx <ttro/>nri)iir<-UH -lacq. : 

 March 20. 



935 (- -). STEPHAXODERES SERIATUS Eich., 1871, 133. 



Oblong, cylindrical. Brownish-black or piceous, subopaque, thinly 

 clothed with scattered gray hairs. Thorax semiorbicular, dirty brown, 

 apical margin with several remote tub?rcles, obsoletely crenate; dorsum 

 convex, sparsely tuberculate, scabrous in front, granulate-punctate behind. 

 Elytra deeply striate, with dilated punctures; intervals narrow, rugulose, 

 each with a row of stout seta?. Length, 1.3 mm. 



New Orleans, La. Treated doubtfully as a synonym of Hypo- 



b Le< 1 onte. 



936 ( ). STEPHAXODERES GEORGI.E Hopkins, 1915-a, 26. 



Uniform dark reddish-brown. Pronotum with six marginal teeth. 

 Front convex, with median line and minute posterior elevation. Elytral 

 stria? distinctly impressed, punctures coarse. Length, female, 1.5 mm. 



Georgia. 



937 (- -). STEPHAXODERES LECOXTEI Hopkins, 1915-a, 27. 



Elytra dark brown; pronotum uniformly reddish-brown, subopaque. 

 Front narrow, subopaque, with median longitudinal shining space. Ely- 

 tral striae impressed and with a row of very fine, obscure, reclining hairs; 

 punctures moderately coarse, closely placed, with intervening elevations, 

 not coarser on declivity. Length, female, 1.55 mm.; male, 1.1 mm. 



Jefferson County, W. Ya., in dead galls on twigs of QiK'n-its 

 sp. ; October 10. 



938 (- -). STEPHAXODERES PIXI Hopkins, 1915-a, 27. 



Uniform brown. Pronotum with four equal and two smaller marginal 

 teeth. Front flat, anterior area shining. Length, female, 1.4 mm. 



Kanawha Station, W. Ya., in rinux sp. ; August IS. 



939 (- -). STKPIIAXODEUKS SAMCIS Hopkins, 1915-a, 27. 



Dark brown, elytra subopaque. Pronotum with rugose space lighter, 

 anterior margin with four small equal teeth and two very minute ones. 

 Front convex, with median shining line, posteriorly sulcate. Elytral striap 

 distinctly impressed, punctures coarse. Length, female, 1.45 mm. 



Allegheny, Pa. 



