TRIP.IO III. IIYPERIXI. l|.~i 



with a row of long, blackish, erect seta?. Under surface with coarse, 

 rather dense punctures, each bearing a short yellowish hair. Last ventral 

 broadly and feebly impressed in female. Length 3.84.5 mm. (W. 8. B.) 



Dunedin and Sarasota, Florida, Jan. 21 Dec. 23. Seven spe- 

 cimens taken from beneath cover along borders of ponds. The 

 elytra are longer and have more numerous and more prominent 

 set* than in ccJihititiis. The much stronger carime of beak and 

 more distinctly convex intervals also readily distinguish it from 

 that species. From liirtclliiK Dietz it is separated by its narrower 

 thorax, erect set*, and more strongly cariuate beak. The scales 

 of thorax are so placed as to form short, oblique rug*. 



232 (- -). HYPERODES MINIMUS sp. nov. 



Oblong, subdepressed. Head, thorax and under surface piceous; 

 elytra dark reddish-brown, usually with a piceous blotch near center; an- 

 tennae and legs paler; scales dirty gray, very sparse, forming only a nar- 

 row stripe each side of thorax and a few small scattered spots on elytra. 

 Beak short, broad, scarcely two-thirds as long as thorax, narrowed at 

 middle, tri-carinate, the median carina more evident; occiput broad, convex, 

 rather thickly and finely punctate and without the hair-like scales of 

 other species. Antennae short, scape reaching middle of front of eye; club 

 large, oval. Thorax ssubcylindrical, one-third wider than long, sides 

 broadly rounded, slightly incurved near base and apex; ocular lobe cov- 

 ering half the eye in repose; disc feebly constricted behind the apex, 

 rather finely and densely punctate, not carinate and without impressions. 

 Elytra broad, distinctly depressed, two-thirds wider at base than thorax, 

 base truncate, sides converging for three-fourths their length, then rapidly 

 narrowing to a conjointly rounded apex; strial punctures large, close-set, 

 wider than the intervals; the latter narrow, convex, the third and fifth 

 rather strongly elevated, the alternate ones with a row of short, yellow in- 

 clined setae on the disc, the others with a few scattered setae on the de- 

 clivity. Under surface glabrous, the sterna coarsely and densely punctate, 

 first four ventrals much more sparsely punctate; last ventral finely and 

 densely punctate, paler than the others, broadly rounded in female, sub- 

 truncate and with a faint median apical impression in male. Length 

 2.32.7 mm. (W. S. B.) 



\ Mmedin, Fla., Jan. 21 Dec. 23. Frequent beneath cover 

 along the margins of inland ponds. Mating on several dates in 

 February and March. Readily known by its small size, broad 

 depressed elytra and almost total absence of scales. The LeConte 

 collection contains two specimens (Xo. 1003) without name or 



locality labels. 



GROUP IV. 



Rather short, subdepressed species having the upper surface 

 more or less clothed with fine, prostrate, hair-like pubescence and 

 usually also scales along the sides of thorax and elytra ; antennal 



