34 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



A NEW GENUS OF SCOLYTIDS FROM FLORIDA. 

 By A. D. HOPKINS. 



Erineophilus gen. nov. 

 Fig. 2. 



Head medium in size; not rostrate, front narrow and fringed in the 9 > 

 broader, convex and nearly smooth in the r? ; anterior margin (epistoma) 

 (Fig 2, g) strongly produced over base of mandibles; eyes oblong, nar 

 row, closely joined to antennal scrobe and extending more than half their 

 length above it. Maxilla (Fig. 2, b} short, broad; cardo more than one- 

 half as long as remaining portion and less than one-half as broad at base ; 

 stipes short continuous with sub-galea but with distinct suture between it 

 and the palpiger, which is large, stout, and as long as the three-jointed 

 palpi, its outer angle bearing numerous long hairs, the tips of which extend 

 beyond the tip of the palpus ; galea narrow, as long as palpi, and armed on 

 the inner edge with closely set compressed teeth with rounded tips; palpi 

 stout, distinctly three-jointed, the joints nearly equal in length; joint i 

 nearly twice as broad as 2, which is also nearly twice as broad as 3, which 

 is truncate at tip ; i and 2 with a few hairs on the outer portion toward 

 the anterior margins. Mentum (dorsal view) (Fig. 2, r, d') short, rather 

 broad, anterior portion broader than base ; ligula short, conate, not extend 

 ing to tip, sparsely clothed with short hairs; palpi difficult to define, ap 

 pear to be two-jointed and differ in the sexes as indicated in the figures. 

 That of the $ (c) appears to have the second joint globular and the tip 

 concave, and the inner edge armed with a small chitinous piece, while in 

 the 9 (<0 it i narrower toward the tip, obliquely excavated and the surface 

 chitinous. Antennae (Fig. 2, a): funiculus six-jointed (appears to be five- 

 jointed in some examples), joint i large, globular, nearly as long as the 

 others united, 2-5 about equal length, 5-6 compressed, closely joined, ir 

 regular and difficult to determine, except in balsam under high magnifica 

 tion ; club oblong, compressed, broadly rounded from middle to tip, nar 

 rowing toward base, divided on its outer face by two sutures, the first 

 nearly straight, the second strongly curved, inner surface shining not 

 annulated. In balsam the first suture shows a pi-ominent chitinous piece, 

 as in figure; the remaining surface, especially near the suture, marked 

 with numerous punctures, and clothed with long hairs which rise from 

 minute granules. Scape simple, clavate, scarcely as broad as the first joint 

 of funiculus. 



Front tarsi (Fig. 2,/') slender, shorter than tibiae, joint increasing in 

 length from base, i short and constricted in middle, 2 broader at tip, 

 3 simple, oval-cylindrical, 4 short and narrow but distinct, 5 rather stout 

 at tip and as long as 2 and 3 together. 



Front ttbice (Fig. 2, e) stout, broad at base, slightly broader at tip, 

 upper or outer edge armed with three or four stout, broad, triangular 

 teeth, connected with transverse elevations on the outer face, and increas- 



