TRIP.K I. TUOPiniCRIXI. L'! 



transverse at sides, ending in a very short curve which hardly ascends the 

 sides. Elytra at base as broad as thorax, very slightly broader behind, 

 finely striate, stria? punctate, surface densely clothed with pale scales, 

 except on each side of the white pubescent scutellum and a broadly arcuate 

 area behind the middle extending from the margin to the third striae; claws 

 deeply cleft, the inner portions of the cleft claws touching. Length 2.5 mm. 

 (C. W. L.) 



Enterprise. Florida. October 81). on poke berry; collected by 

 C. L. Brownell. Type in author's collection ; another specimen 

 in Chas. Sclupffer's collection. 



IV. ErspiiYuus Lee.. ISTfi. (Or., "beautiful" -4- -feet.") 



Beak shorter than head, broader than long, slightly narrowed 

 at base; eyes ovate, broadly emarginate in front; antenna? not 

 longer than head and thorax, first and second joints short and 

 thick, 3 6 slender, 7 and 8 thicker, 11 broader, forming' a 

 loose, compressed club; front coxa 1 prominent, contiguous; tarsi 

 as long as the tibia?, first joint as long as the others united, third 

 very short; claws with a small acute tooth near the base. One 

 of the three North American species occurs with us. 



12 (9213). Erspiiviu-s WALSHII Lee., 1876, 399. 



Elongate-oval. Brownish-black, clothed with fine brownish or ash- 

 gray pubescence, and mottled with patches of coarser yellowish-white hairs 

 arranged in a cross-band on elytra much as in Ormiscus saltator ; antennae 

 at base, tibiae and tarsi pale reddish-brown. Thorax wider at base than 

 long, gradually narrowed from the base forward, hind angles acute, diver- 

 gent, projecting laterally beyond the elytra; disc finely and densely punc- 

 tate, the transverse ridge almost basal. Elytra subcylindrical, not wider 

 and about twice as long as thorax; striae deep, coarsely and closely punc- 

 tured; disc feebly and broadly impressed transversely about one-fourth the 

 length from base. Length 2.3 3 mm. 



Putnam and Posey counties. Indiana, rare; Apr. 1( July 4. 

 Staten Island. N. Y.. on hickory; June. Various localities in 

 New Jersey, breeding in the dead wood of deciduous trees ; June. 

 July. Ormond, Fla., April 13. Ranges from New England and 

 Canada to Michigan and Iowa, south to Florida. 



V. GOXOTROPIS Lee., 1876. ( Gr., "elbow" + "keel.") 



Here belongs a single rather robust convex species having the 

 beak longer than head, gradually narrowed to middle, then 

 widened to tip, its upper surface uneven ; antennal cavities near 

 its tip small, deep, not visible from above; anteniue half as long 

 as body, first joint clavate, second shorter, 3 8 more slender, 



