Kfti TIIK r.VNAIHAN KNTUMoUMilHT. 



middle ; prothorax siill smaller and much less transverse, the small slender 

 sparse pale scales whitish at the sides and along the median line ; elytra 

 with coarser, deeper stria:, the fine pale sparse scales forming a large solid 

 subbasal blotch, and, behind the middle, a much straighter narrow fascia, 

 the dispersed scales of the intervals large, broad and much more conspic- 

 uous. Length, 1.4 mm.; width, o 65 mm. Bahama Islands (Kleuthera). 



It does not seem at all probable that the type of disf>ersa can be the 

 male of Bahamensii ; the beak does not seem to differ much sexually in 

 my ample series of the latter. 



Tychius Sch. 



The Californian species allied to Itneellus Lee, are rather numerous 

 and well defined ; those in my cabinet at present may be distinguished as 

 follows : 



Fllytral intervals clothed alternately with cinereous-white and pale brown 

 slender decumbent squamiform hairs, without erect seta? of any kind ; 

 body stouter than in any other allied species, the elytra but little 

 longer than wide, with notably coarse stride ; prothorax with the 

 strong aj)ical constriction and apical tabulation characterizing all the 

 other species of this group ; beak ( 9 ) only moderately slender, not 

 longer than the head and prothorax. Length, V , 4 5-4-7 mm.; width, 

 1. 8-2. 1 mm. California (exact locality unrecorded) . . .lineellu% Lee. 



Elytral intervals not alternately paler and darker in ve>titure ; body less 

 obese as a rule 2 



2— Llylral striae as coarse and deep as in litieellus, not at all obliterated 

 by the vesiiture, which is hair-like, depressed, only moderately dense 

 and cinereous throughout, denser on the sutural interval throughout 

 and on the alternate intervals*posteriorly, the umbones rather more 

 prominent Uian in liueellus and the body more elongate in form, the 

 elytra much longer than wide : beak ( 9 ) a little longer and more 

 slender, nearly straight, with the anicnnne inserted at the middle ; 

 shorter and stouter ( cJ ), with the antennie at apical two fifths. 

 Length, cJ » 9 • 3 7-4-5 "^^ij width, i. 6-1. 9 mm. California (without 



more definite statement of locality) ... .tacitus n. sp. 



Klytral striae less coarse, partially concealed by the vestiture 3 



3 — Body black throughout 4 



Body black, the elytra testaceous 6 



4 — Legs rufcscent distally, the antennae and about a|)ical half of the beak 

 testaceous, the aniennal club infuscate; decumbent vestiiurc moderately 



