TRIP. 1C XVIII. F.AKIXI. 4<> ( J 



630 (8750). ZAGLYPTUS sfLCATrs Lee., 1876, 237. 



Oval, convex. Dark reddish-brown, the thorax, and apical half of 

 elytra often piceous. Head and tubular constriction of thorax smooth. 

 Beak deeply sulcate each side, minutely punctate. Thorax conical, two- 

 thirds wider than long, very coarsely and densely punctate behind the 

 apical constriction. Elytra strongly convex, rapidly narrowed from the 

 very prominent humeri; intervals narrow, convex, each with a row of 

 distant small punctures, from which proceed long, erect hairs. Under 

 surface very coarsely and sparsely punctate. Length, 1.6 mm. 



Perry Comity, Ind.. rare; May 20. Recorded from Mobile, 

 Ala., District of Columbia and Ohio. Stated by Dury to be 

 abundant near Cincinnati. 



XXVI. ZYGOBAIMS LIT., 1S7T,. i Or., "yoke" -f- Paris.) 



Small rliomboidal. subtropical species having the beak very 

 loiiii 1 , slender, strongly curved; mandibles small, thick, curved, 

 notched at apex, strongly crossed when closed; antenna- inserted 

 behind Hie middle in both sexes; elytral stri;e coarsely punctate; 

 larsal daws connate at base. 



631 (8946). ZYGOBARIS XITEXS Lee., 1876, 318. 



Robust, subrhomboiclal. Black, shining, thinly sprinkled with small 

 white hair-like scales. Beak two-thirds as long as body, female, slightly 

 longer than head and Ihcrax, male, slender, curved, not thicker at base, 

 densely punctured at the sides on basal half. Thorax conical, three-fifths 

 wider than long, sides feebly curved, constricted near apex, disc very 

 coarsely, not densely, punctured. Elytra at base much wider than thorax, 

 striae fine, deep, marked with large, distant punctures: intervals nearly 

 flat, each with a row of equally large but more distant punctures. Under 

 surface very coarsely punctured. Length 2.6 3.7 mm. 



Kcv West and other points in southern Florida. An allied 

 species breeds in the berries of Xanthoxylum in Texas. 



XXVII. Zvdop.AKixrs Pierce, 111(17. 



This <>enus was founded ( 1907-a, 385) for the following species, 

 placed in Zi/fiolmiis by its author, but differing widely from the 

 two species now included in that genns. 



632 (- ). ZYGOBAPJXUS CCELESIIXUS Linell, 1897, 55. 



Robust, subrhomboiclal, convex, glabrous. Dark blue, opaque, strongly 

 alutaceous; antenna? and tarsi reddish-brown. Beak sparsely punctate, 

 basal half bluish-green, apical Half piceous; short, curved, cylindrical, 

 slightly flattened at apex. Thorax conical, scarcely wider than long, sides 

 feebly rounded, disc sparsely and finely punctate, more coarsely at sides. 

 Elytral stria? linear, distinctly impressed, with remote, fine punctures; 

 intervals flat, each with a single row of small, distant, Hubmuricate punc- 

 tures. Length 4 mm. 



