TUIP.E I. CRYPHALIXI. 609 



tubercles; behind and at sides finely, densely punctate. Elytra twice as 

 long as wide, deeply punctate-striate; intervals very finely multipunctate, 

 seriately setose. Byes subemarginate in front. Club of antennas with 

 transverse sutures almost straight. Length 2.0 2.8 mm. 



North America, in Chapuis Collection. Cuba. 



967 ( ). COCCOTRYPES PTGM^US Eich., 1878, 310. 



Oval. Piceous, almost shining, pilose. Thorax ovate, much shorter, 

 posteriorly cribrately exasperate with granules and longitudinal rugae. 

 Elytra equally convex, very roughly cribrate, finely lineato-punctate; in- 

 tervals alternately pilose with longer and shorter hairs in rows, apex sub- 

 striate. Length 2 mm. 



Indian River, Fla. ; Horn collection. Lake Poinsett and Key 

 Largo, Fla., in sea beans. (Schwarz.} Eichhoff gives Madagas- 

 car, St. Domingo, Manila and Senegal. 



968 ( ). COCCOTRYPES BASSivEVORUS Hopkins, 1915-a, 47. 



Body short, elliptical. Color reddish. Anterior margin of pronotum 

 serrate. Front subconvex, closely sulcate and with sparsely placed, erect 

 hairs. Elytra shining, striae in distinct rows; interspaces flat, faintly 

 rugose toward base and with regular row of fine punctures to declivity, 

 which is evenly convex, the stria? not impressed, striae and interspaces sub- 

 equally punctured in rows, stria? with distinct rows of short, reclining 

 hairs from base to apex. Length, female, 2.2 mm. 



Botanic Garden, District of Columbia, in seed pods of Bassia 

 hit if olia, July 31. 



969 (11,245). COCCOTRYPES DACTYLIPERDA Fabr., 1801, II, 387. 



Oblong-oval. Brown, hairy, antennae brownish-testaceous. Club or- 

 bicular, glabrous at base, paler and pubescent at apex, externally with 

 curved sutures but solid and smooth internally. Head small, brown, mod- 

 erately convex in front, cribrately longitudinally strigose, clothed spar- 

 ingly with hairs which are longer in male; eyes oblong, subsinuate in 

 front. Thorax short, subovate, longer than broad, narrowed in front, 

 rounded at apex, disc convex, entirely roughly granulate-punctate, clothed 

 with long pale hairs. Elytra oval, with rows of fine punctures, clothed 

 with alternate rows of longer and shorter hairs, declivity convex, entirely 

 free of tubercles. Length, female, 2 2.5 mm.; male, 1.5 2 mm. 



District of Columbia, found occasionally in fruit stores. 

 (Ulke.} A native of Asia and Africa, living in seeds of dates 

 and betelnnt (Areca catechu], which has been spread over the 

 c'vilized countries by commerce. 



XII. SPERMATOPLEX Hopkins, 1915-a. ( Gr., "seed" -j- twine.") 



Antennal fimicle 5-jointed, joint 5 broader; club oval, with 

 one bisinuate suture on anterior and two procurved ones on poste- 



