TRIBE VIII. TYCHIIXI. 247 



359 (8694). TYCHIUS AKATOR Gyll., Schon., 1836, 414. 



Oblong-oval, rather robust. Black, densely clothed throughout with 

 elongate, strigose, dark clay-yellow scales, with a few paler, larger, non- 

 strigose ones on apical half of elytra; antennae and apical third of beak 

 pale reddish-brown; legs darker. Beak feebly curved, scaly and punc- 

 tured as in picirostris. Basal joint of funicle as long as the next two; 

 second two-thirds as long as first. Thorax one-third wider than long, apex 

 less than one-half as wide as base, disc finely and densely granulate-punc- 

 tate. Elytra one-fourth wider than thorax, one-half longer than wide, 

 deeply striate, the strial punctures indistinct; intervals convex, alutaceous. 

 Hind femora with a small acute tooth. Length 3 3.6 mm. 



Recorded from Illinois, Missouri and Texas. 



VII. PARAGOGES Lee., 1870. (Gr., "protracted.") 



Small oblong species having, in addition to the characters of 

 generic key, the beak as long or longer than thorax, rather slen- 

 der, cylindrical, nearly straight; antenna? inserted at apical 

 third, scape not reaching eye, funicle 6-jointed, first and second 

 joints longer, 3 6 gradually slightly broader; club oval, an- 

 nulated, the first joint larger than the others combined ; femora 

 not toothed; tarsi spongy beneath, third joint broader, bilobed; 

 pygidium partly exposed. One species is known from Califor- 

 nia and another is herewith described from Florida. 



360 ( ). PAKAGOGES MINIMUS sp. nov. 



Oblong-oval. Dark reddish-brown, thinly clothed with dull reddish and 

 dirty whitish scales, the latter oblong, much the larger, arranged transverse- 

 ly on the thorax and along the intervals on the apical third of elytra; scutel- 

 lum white; antenna? and legs paler reddish-brown. Beak stout, as long as 

 thorax, almost glabrous, grooved each side above and behind the antennae. 

 Eyes rather large, rounded, narrowly separated, coarsely granulated. Thorax 

 as long as wide, sides feebly curved, constricted near apex; disc finely and 

 densely punctate. Elytra oval, one-third wider at base than thorax, sides 

 straight to middle, then broadly curved to the separately rounded tips; 

 striae with coarse, close-set punctures, each of which is closed by an elongate 

 whitish scale; intervals flat, rugose, each bearing behind the middle a 

 row of the large, distant, oblong white scales. First ventral coarsely and 

 sparsely punctate; remainder of abdomen almost impunctate and glabrous. 

 Length 1.5 mm. (W. S. B.) 



Ft. Myers, Fla., March 11; taken by sweeping. The large 

 white scales are so arranged as to form an ill-defined W-shaped 

 mark across the apical third of elytra, immediately in front of 

 which is a large, faint darker blotch across the suture. 



