392 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIOXIXJE. 



597 (11,176). NICENTRUS CONTRACTUS Casey, 1892, 613. 



Differs from the two preceding in its shorter and broader body, 

 longer polished and almost impunctate beak, longer second funicular 

 joint and more widely distant front coxa?. The white scales are very 

 fine, sparse and uniformly distributed over the thorax, broader, denser 

 and widely confused on all the elytral intervals, and very broad and 

 dense beneath. Elytral intervals all deeply, densely and confusedly 

 punctate. Length 3.2 mm. 



Also described from a single Florida female. 



598 (8939). NICENTRUS CANUS Lee., 1876, 421. 



Elongate-oblong, convex. Black, feebly shining; beak, antennae 

 and elytra reddish-piceous; legs paler reddish-brown; upper surface clothed 

 with oblong whitish scales, moderately densely and evenly distributed, 

 those beneath much broader and very dense. Beak as long as head 

 and thorax, antennae inserted at middle, female; shorter, antennae inserted 

 at apical two-fifths, male; stout, cylindrical, striate, coarsely and sparsely 

 punctate on sides, more finely above. Second joint of fuuicle as long as 

 the next two. Thorax convex, one-third wider than long, sides feebly 

 curved from base to beyond middle, then strongly rounded to apex; 

 disc strongly convex, rather finely and closely punctate and with a 

 narrow, smooth dorsal line. Elytra feebly flattened, slightly wider at 

 humeri than thorax, sides feebly converging; striae fine, deep; intervals 

 flat, finely, rugosely punctate. Length 3.7 5 mm. 



St. Augustine, Enterprise and Haw Creek, Fla. ; Tybee Reach, 

 Ga,, June 20. Taken by Townsend (100.,, 98) on Almtiloii Itolo- 

 sericium Scheele at Santo Tomas, Texas, June 6. 



599 ( ). NiCENTRi's XEGLECTUS sp. nov. 



Elongate-oval, robust. Nearly uniform reddish-brown, shining, ab- 

 domen tinged with fuscous; above almost glabrous; flanks of thorax 

 and middle of abdomen rather thickly clothed with large, oblong, sil- 

 very white scales. Beak of male rather stout, as long as thorax, striate 

 and densely punctate on sides, finely and sparsely punctate above. 

 Second joint of funicle nearly as long as the next three. Thorax as 

 long as wide, sides almost straight from base to apical fourth, then 

 slightly rounded to the feebly constricted apex; disc with fine, dense 

 subconfluent punctures which merge to form minute strigaa on sides 

 and flanks; median smooth line very narrow, incomplete. Elytra scarcely 

 wider at base than thorax, sides nearly parallel to apical fourth, 

 apex broadly rounded; striae fine, indistinctly punctate; intervals flat, 

 each with two rows of confused shallow punctures. Under surface fine- 

 ly and densely punctate. Length 4.2 mm. (W. 8. B.) 



Long Boat Key, Sarasota, Fla., Aug. 14; Leng collection. 

 More slender than <-<nnis. the thorax longer and less convex, the 

 color and vestitnre widely different. 



