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intervals on the disc. Side pieces of thorax densely clothed with fine white 

 hairs. Length 2 mm. 



Knox County, Intl., scarce; July 1. Known elsewhere from 

 New Jersey, Massachusetts and District of Columbia. 



477 (11,026). PSEUDAXTHOXOMUS PARVULUS Dietz, 1891, 253. 



"Similar in form and color to lonrjulus. More shining, very thinly 

 clothed with short whitish pubescence. Head sparsely punctured and pub- 

 escent. Disc of thorax rather coarsely and densely punctured. Elytra 

 oblong, one-third wider at base than thorax; strial punctures large, round- 

 ed, subconfluent on the disc; intervals convex, narrower at base, rugulose. 

 Length 2.2 mm." (Dietz.} 



Described from a single female from Illinois. 



478 ( ). PSEITDAXTHOXOMt'S IXERMIS Sp. nOV. 



Oblong-oval, robust. Dark reddish-brown, thinly clothed with very 

 short yellowish, scale-like hairs, scarcely condensed on any portion of the 

 body; scutellum white; under surface darker. Beak stout, scarcely longer 

 than thorax, both it and head alutaceous, finely and sparsely punctate. 

 Antennae, inserted at apical third, male, middle, female, their grooves 

 directed beneath the eyes; second joint of funicle more slender and but 

 little longer than third; 46 subglobose, the fourth slightly shorter than 

 third, club very large, densely pubescent. Thorax a little wider than long, 

 sides straight on basal half, then feebly rounded and converging to apex; 

 disc not constricted, coarsely and densely punctured, each puncture en- 

 closing a short yellow prostrate hair. Elytra oval, one-third wider at base 

 than thorax, humeri prominent, sides feebly converging from base to apical 

 third, then more strongly so to apex; stria? rather deep, their punctures 

 large, not close-set; intervals convex, granulose-punctate, each puncture 

 bearing a short yellowish hair. Abdomen finely and sparsely punctate. 

 Length 22.3 mm. (W. 8. B.) 



Dunedin and Lake Istokpoga, Fla.; Feb. 25 March 2.",. The 

 male has the thorax somewhat narrower, with sides almost evenly 

 converging from base to apex. Differs from all others by the un- 

 armed femora and the character of the pubescence. The only 

 species of the genus so far known from Florida. 



479 (11,027). PSEUDAXTHOXOMUS EELICTI-S Dietz, 1891, 254. 



Elongate, subovate. Brown, clothed with coarse yellowish-gray pubes- 

 cence. Beak widened from base to apex, punctured and feebly bistriate 

 from base to middle. Frontal fovea obsolete. Thorax coarsely and closely 

 punctate. Elytra elongate, wider behind, but slightly wider at base than 

 thorax; strial punctures coarse; intervals nearly flat, rugose, the third 

 conspicuously widened at base, each with several irregular rows of minute 

 punctures. Length 2 mm. 



Described from a single male from Pennsylvania. Kesembles 

 incipicns but darker and the funicle only 5-jointed. 



